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Nice shot. Found this one the other week....on the road on a roundabout in north wales.

Do you EVER get repeat custom dadio?

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Haha. Sod logs- mugs game IMO. I sell all mine wholesale staright off site to log merchants. These people wanted to keep logs, and i have a market for chip, so I just chippped up to 10". They had more logs left than you could shake a stick at....... sorry....:lol:

I need a tracked machine on monday and tuesday next week if anyone nows of one in cornwall. The usual place i go for a 530t is a no go, as a bearing in the tracks needs doing, and Antler hire who are the next obvious choice cant do it till thuredsay next week. I want to do the job on monday and tuesday. Redruth based, so I dont want to travel out of kernow if poss. Anybody know of anything please get back to me.

Chipping 10" logs helps get the outputfigures up too......

Speak to RSM Beares at coads green nr launceston, or stoke canon exeter TCD. Truro Farm machinery down here, but thats a bit far for you and Liam.

Calm down TCD......

I wonder what sort of timescale BS en350-1 is based on? I know of 50 year old cedar shingles that have come off roofs, for over 3/4 to go back on again....(cleft shingles not sawn that is)

Interesting stuff there Alec. I can only speak from 'experience' as it were- what i mean is that i havent come to it from an academic point of view, more from what i have picked up over the years, and what has come to me from woodworkers and other sawyers etc. I take it there are few softwoods that are class 1? Western red cedar perhaps? Or is it just hardwoods that can achieve this? Thanks for the link. I have opened and bookmrked it for later perusal....the malbec is kicking in now...... Its not my idea on the feather edge....but its a cracker isnt it?! I know what you mean about larch. IME it definitely depends on the original grade of sawlog.......for example I once had a load which I ended up getting most of my money back on as about 90% of it was unuseable......straight off the mill. I was cutying 5m lengths, and by the time i was about 3m in, the wood had either lifted off the log by an inch or more, or gone the other way and trapped the band. It was atrocious. Generally though I have found it to be VERY stable indeed.

I would love to know the output on that machine- i bet its awesome. I was filling my 3 cube chip box in about 25 minutes today with poplar and leylandii loads (ok there were 2 of us and there was a big pile ready to chip, so it was in constant chip mode as it were) and my machine is pretty old.....

LOvely bit of kit there dean. I wouldnt mind a bandit. I was looking at one on global's site the other day...would have sold the vermeer to finance it if i hadnt had the £300 tyre blowout!!!!!!!! It has gone now. For whoever was asking about deans truck pulling it earlier, that is a light machine at 1340kg......I tow a 1.7 tonne vermeer 935i behind my defender no worries, so deans 130 will not even bat an eyelid at 1.3 tonne.

Yeah you trade it in for something like a valmet....or pretty much any other breed hehe....

I have supplied well over 100 cubic metres of softwood (larch) that has been used throughout a green oak building that has taken 4 years to build. There will be shrinkage and movement, but as long as you allow for this then there wil be no problem. The building I refer to i sbeing lived in and has huge glass panes. There will be no issues as it is factored into the design. There is insulation everywhere, underfloor heating etc etc, and 12 months on no problems have arisen. Leylandii is a very good timber which will have excellent durability in its hertwood, and is very stable. It is cypress, so will not need treating either. Do not be put off about using green softwood at all BTW. I disagree with several points here- it is perfectly possible to buy very good quality, durable untreated softwood.......such as larch or douglas, both of which are EXTREMELY resistant to decay. If you buy good quality larch sawlogs, they dont warp.....unless your sawyer doesnt reallly have a clue about millling, in which case find another sawyer/ sawmill. As for making feather edge, a simple way to do it is to cut you cant (square block) and on the first pass you raise one edge of the cant with a piece of 1/2" timber, and take it out for the next cut, and carry on like that throughout the cant.

YOu certainly were. I dint lick my fingers after handling those fungi.....

Sorry to hear of your woes guys. Go steady on the long days big fell, be thankful it was a (expensive) pane of glass, not a person who got damaged.

Thanks for the concern about my welfare:) Other than 3 (?) that will kill most either make you just very sick, or trip nicely!!!

Found these freaky fungi today, around the base of some beech and a couple of poplar. I think the first are Amethyst deceiver, Laccaria amethystea? Not sure about the second.

No you can use it green, thats fine. Larch, Douglas fir are the most comonly asked for construction softwoods IME, and both will work fine with green oak. Beware that you will be paying more than normal to you sawyer to use cordwood rather than sawlogs as there is more work involved with smaller diameter timber.

Haha I'm struggling to watch this one.....these people who breastfeed their children very late are a bit weird IMO.

Bizarre documentary about bizarre women who are breastfeeding their kids ....up to the age of 7???????????? Channel 20 freeview, Really, now on (9.20pm)

I stand corrected. I only wrote my post as i was asked to supply graded larch last year and a local mill who knew how to grade and stamp etc etc explained that it couldnt be done with uk grown jap larch. It could have been more specifically soiuth west grown though i suppose.

As i understand things the UK timber market is tiny for construction. UK softwoods arent gradeable in general, due to the speed they grow making the rings too fat, thus rendering it too wide to be gradeable. we import almost all of our softwood construction timber, and a large part of our hardwood too.

Haix protector pros. Awesome.

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