Mike Dempsey
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Thinking of selling - what is my landy worth? Opinions please
Mike Dempsey replied to jrose's topic in General chat
3 twixes and a snickers, might be able to add in a Topic if I can find it! -
<p>Hi Allister</p>
<p>If you send me your email address I can send you a sample photo of a weeding invite.</p>
<p>cheers</p>
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<p>Mike</p>
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I made some stuff in college with that whilst doing my HND in Furniture design and construction. The work included cutting a set of dovetails by hand and it was horrendous stuff to work with . Crumbled like an oxo cube if you went near it. I think most of my course chucked their pieces in the skip when they had been marked. I haven't touched it since and don't intend to do so. Even if I had a client who insisted upon me using it, I would refuse the commission!
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The difficulty of selling a car mid month and dating the sale at the end of the month to give the new owner a full month would be if they committed any driving offences the tickets and or police would be coming after you as still being the vehicle owner and obviously the driver who committed the offences. Best to sell it at the end of the month or keep the car till the start of the month and sell it then.
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Milling Douglous Fir is there a market?
Mike Dempsey replied to Jontreasure's topic in Milling Forum
I have milled up a few doug fir logs. I made a 32mm thick fence for my garden last year with 125mm square fence posts. Its 2.4m high and wont blow down like my neighbours all do unless a hurricane comes directly through my garden! I am in the process of building another kiln to dry my hardwoods and I am using df for the frame. My firewood shack outside is also made from df. Sure beats buying wood from Jewsons or any other timber yard. Its a pretty versatile wood and much better than scots pine or any spruce. -
For a start they will be full of grit and dirt and will totally wreck your planer thicknesser blades within a couple of passes. The wood is quite soft and of a low quality. You would be much better of persuading him to have a different timber.
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Another week to go and it should be completed. Working till 10pm and beyond most nights. Finished early last night to watch the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games. Looked amazing and what a buzz at celtic park. Don't have any time to go and see anything though. The shooting is taking place about 25 miles away at Barry Budon but its hardly a spectator sport! Got some more urgent work coming in for plaques for the council. I just want a free week to rebuild my kiln in and then I can head of milling in Sept. The trees are stacking up and I am desperate to go milling again. I haven't milled anything since Christmas and I am missing the smell of fresh sawdust.
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Congratulations Dan, it happens to us all. The gap between my youngest and second child is six years. Bit of a surprise as well. I was completing my HND in furniture design and construction when Molly was born 3 months before the end of it. Bit of a nightmare. I used to do my course work between 10pm and 2am and then give her a feed before going to bed. I was also running a business at the time and constantly knackered. It can be done with good planning and time management. Have fun!
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The use of a few marketing psychohbabble words can multiply the price of anything by quite a few times. If you are in the right market its amazing what you can sell. Price it too low and it will gather dust in the workshop. Multiply the price by 10 times and you may struggle to keep up with demand! Lots of people out there with plenty of money just waiting to buy stuff like this. I wouldn't spend 10k+ on a dining room table but I do know a few who have done
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I met him a few years ago in Edinburgh at the Woodfest. A very knowledgeable and genuine bloke with a passion for all things wood. Wishing him a full and speedy recovery. Mike
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That was pretty accurate felling. Impressed
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Plenty of old Wadkins on Ebay Mark. Best to get one out of a joiner's shop who is retiring as these are the cheapest. Quite easy to pick one up for under 2k sometimes. I myself got a Sedgwick MB with a 12 inch capacity, 4 knife Tersa block for a little over a grand. It was about 12 years old and had only planed softwoods in a joinery. All it needed was cleaned up which took a couple of hours and reset. Saved myself 4k on the cost of a new one. Leaves the surface of the wood like a piece of glass!
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Metabo is a good make being German. Good back up and support from knowledgable technicians in Southhampton
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I am a ginger and so burn very easily. I even had the skin come off my back in large pieces after a day on the beach when I was seven years old. ( my parents would be in court if that happened today) Never again. I now always wear long sleeved tops and a hat whenever out in the sun and use factor 50 sun cream. I mainly do milling of trees and can wait till a cooler day or evening to do the job if necessary. Mike
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If my wife and youngest daughter don't want to go on the Sunday, I think I will go on the Friday. I normally hit there dead early and leave by three to avoid the traffic. I have had my own stand before in the furniture/crafts tent before but its a long 5 days for me and I cant be bothered these days. Mike
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Unfortunately, Salmond isn't the only politician who has stage-managed photo opportunities. We are paying for hundreds of 'political assistants' whose sole purpose in life is to show off their political paymasters in the best light possible in order to gain votes. Nothing new here I'm afraid
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This would be highly illegal under competition rules and it wouldnt be long before Stihl ended up in court. A similar example to this is Festool who were dictating to their dealers the prices and if any of them cut the price they soon lost their dealership. It took a few complaints and their fine in court ended up in the millions. There is competition now in that market and dealers are free to set their own price. Still vastly overpriced in my opinion but that's a different argument. At least their quality is top notch and I haven't heard anyone complain about it, unlike the quality of some Stihl products!
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I predict England going out pretty early if Wayne Rooney is in the team and plays at the same standard that he has been for Man U this season!
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Costa Coffe et al is weak milky rubbish right?
Mike Dempsey replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
I have had my own wee coffee machine for years. Got it as a wedding present from my work colleagues about 21 years ago. Works brilliantly for lattes as it has a steamer attachment rather than a gizmo for stirring the milk. Have used it at least once a day, every day since I got it and I would be devastated if it broke. I normally use Morrisons own brand coffee but as they had none in the shop yesterday I bought some Taylors of Harrogate. I would hate to work out how much I would have spent in Costas or some other place if I had to pay for it. -
Any chance of getting some logs of Douglas fir in and chainsaw milling them. You could turn them into a picnic bench or 2 pretty quickly so there is a lasting reminder of what you have done. You could donate them to a local school or park when you have finished or maybe on e of the adults accompanying the kids might even buy the finished article.
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Another photo of the end of the log to see what the ratio of sapwood to heartwood is needed. The more heartwood there is the more the log is worth. Hard to tell from your photo. Mike
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Worldpay zinc is worth checking out.
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You could try A G Brown opposite my workshop in Southfield Industrial Estate in Glenrothes. They have a huge laser for cutting steel. Mike
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If you had your big saw it might be worthwhile buying the plans and making one yourself. Could even scale it up a bit I suppose. A remote throttle on it would be quite good as well.
