Kev P
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Thank you for your advice,looked at the website the sharpener they have is the one I already have.I see they have made several improvements,a better bit of kit I think.We buy our blades from Sawmatic of Telford they sell for one Lennox blades and they reweld ours if they are still in reasonable health,should they break.A good firm to deal with.How is your bandmill going,hope you enjoy using it.
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Could anybody recommend a blade sharpener that will deal with 5.8m long by 11/4 " wide blade 1.1 t.p.i .Mine has had enough.I have been using a 6" bench grinder of recent times with good results.We mainly cut firewood and make hedging stakes with them.12" diameter timber at most.
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How long did it take you to carve,we think it looks great
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we to had one with the hardox blade if the wood is freshly cut it did a very good job,did not seem to matter what the timber was.But knots are a different matter,had great fun with slow grown Sitka knots.If you cut a lot of short logs any bits can be sold as kindling.I thought it was a good machine,maybe a bigger tractor than our Ford 4000 would be an advantage to keep the momentum up.
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Several years ago I went around the buildings taking moisture readings from hardwood billets at the end of summer 14 percent,then fencing materials in the same buildings bought many years ago 14 percent.By the end of November same timber in the same places 19 percent.
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We run 2 balfor electric circulars if they go slightly dull it's worth getting them touched up,it makes a big difference to the amount of electric used.
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We have two of the riko saw benches within our business both electric.The one is now over seven years old and cut a lot of timber still looks good and works perfectly very pleased with them both.
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We sell them for .50p each.5' long peeled,pointed 4 ways and tied in bundles of 20.All done on the bandsaw.
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Several years ago we bought in 2 artic loads of crack willow nothing over 20cm dia,we cut and split,stacked as billets.Once dry we sawed it up on the bandsaw and sold it.We bought it in abit cheaper than softwood so we sold it cheaper.Everybody that had it wanted more.Sold as a whole load of willow not mixed.
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These bandsaws are dangerous I agree. I have cut up thousands of tons of timber on ours.The bandsaw in my picture is electric so economical to run,hardly any waste.We also run a tractor powered one.They really will cut fast if you give the tractor a bit more revs just as the man in the video clip is doing,using a woodmizer double hard blade.
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The bandsaw used in this video is from Ballario and forestello or Balfor as they are now known as.Riko sell Balfor equipment.
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Have seen this video on You Tube called " Itaglia Legna " . We have this bandsaw but not with the splitter on it.
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RIKO Saw Bench; but which version???
Kev P replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
We have 2 Riko sawbenches,one started its life as a single phase bench,600mm blade.It did all that we asked of it,preparing softwood to make hedging stakes.It now has a invertek phase converter and 3h.p three phase motor.The other has the 700 blade ,bought with the three phase motor.With the invertec drive now on it to.We have a single phase supply coming into our buildings.Both saws have done alot of work with no problems at all. -
2 of our customers have Broseley Rosetta wood burning cookers they are thrilled to bits with them.
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We bought in two artic lorry loads a few years back of willow in early spring.It was cut at 40",split stacked on pallets in a long row with tin over the top.We started cutting on the bandsaw in the autumn and selling.Everybody who tried the willow wanted more.It was very dry.
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We have a mignon electric,with a wide wedge.Has done alot of work.The cables break from time to time,by the valve block.Create a little joiner,put a fresh bit of cable there and away to go.
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We have always liked willow ourselves and a few years ago I bought in about 56 ton of fresh willow,cut it at 40",split and stacked it in the open with tin sheeting over the top.8 months later we started to cut it on the bandsaw and sell.Every person that tried the willow wanted more.It was very dry.
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The man we get our timber of says,dont you go getting one of those processer things aswell. I have enough trouble supplying the other boys.Think about this.Not all the timber grows straight and the last load of hardwood that came here there was nothing under 12".And he says he is not sorting it out for anyone.
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We produce alot of billets,which are cut up during the winter on a bandsaw.And resplit if need be.
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We tend to run the strimmer around our our drying timber.It means that there are not so many woodlice present at the bottom of the piles,thus dryer.Old books I have read say to keep the wood 12" of the ground to allow a good air flow underneath.
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We have a clearview vision 500,its heating a 4 bedroom bungalow with the aid of a heat recovery system.We cook on it all the time and it boils a 1 gallon kettle in 20 mins when the stove thermometer is on 500 degrees F. Burning well seasoned and "tomorrows logs by the stove today" softwood.
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My grandmother once told me that during the war her father had german prisoners of war on the farm.They would go around pollarding the oaks.She said they had never seen anything like it before.The farm is no longer in the family and the oaks have gone,making way for bigger fields.
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The answer to how many logs 26tonnes of timber makes
Kev P replied to Treewarrior's topic in Firewood forum
The man has worked hard. Pallets we think are a good idea, once grass starts to grow up around your logs even two pallets high is better. We run the strimmer around the split stacks during the summer just to keep the old air flow moving. -
Keep sending videos like this in.Thoroughly injoyed it.
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No problem selling it.
