Big J
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I would think that the worst thing you can hit with your saw is yourself....
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I wonder what would come up if you Googled 36" butts Steve?
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It's not a milling log. It's a veneer log. Speak to either: Ian Symons at Chantler Timber Ian Brown at AJ Scott Carl Butler at Nelson Butler or Andy Fellows at Prime Timber You will make far more money selling the log to one of them than trying to cut it yourself. I should stress as well that it is a specialist log and any other mill would simply butcher it. I mill weird and wonderful timber regularly with an oversized sawmill and I would not entertain the idea of milling that.
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Jesus, some savage comments on there. People are so hilariously hypocritical. Very well felled (having done some large veneer butts in the past myself) and I'm glad to see it's going to be appropriately used.
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Western red cedar is best. I dislike larch for it's resin content as it makes the sawing process more difficult. Also difficult to find larch saw logs that are straight, taper free and without tension. I do quite like douglas fir.
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I thought the same, but the pinkish purple colour on the lower cuts seem to suggest Yew. I'd still reserve judgement though...
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Work on the basis of 26-27 hoppus foot per tonne (I used 26.5 for argument's sake). So the formula is simple. 1/4 girth squared, times length, divided by 1728 (all in inches). So for 36", multiply 36 by pi (3.142) to get girth - 113.112 Divide that by 4 - 28.28 Multiply it by itself - 799.76 Times it by length (in this case a metre, which is 39.37 inches) - 31486.55 Divide by 1728 - 18.22 hoppus foot Then divide 18.22 by 26.5 and you have your weight: 688kg per metre
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Generally work on 26-27 hoppus foot per tonne on fresh felled denser UK hardwood (oak, beech, elm). So 32" would be about 540kg per metre, or thereabouts. If you have a significant amount of timber, and extraction isn't too much of an effort, extract it mechanically and hire in a mobile mill. Even if you mill it in the woods, you'll still have to haul it out somehow and with the timber that you don't turn into sawdust (2mm kerf versus 9-10mm), the extraction and probably the milling is paid for. Not trying to dismiss the value of the Alaskan mill, but for anyone producing any volume of timber, it's best reserved for jobs where there is no other option.
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Agreed. Like I said, there is a time and a place for an Alaskan and your oak in your woodland is just such an instance.
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Easiest way to cut an 18ft beam with an Alaskan is to take it to someone with a bandmill and get them to do it. Given that Alaskan milling is manual, and board handling is usually manual, do you really want to have to lift an 18ft beam? It could take all morning to square up a log with an Alaskan (especially if there are a few boards from the outside of the log) and that same log could be done in 15 minutes on a Woodmizer or something similar. An Alaskan is an invaluable tool for certain applications (wide boards, inaccessible timber) but it's not suited to producing dimensioned timber.
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I'll have to pop in - that almost couldn't be closer to me (about 2 miles from my house). I shall see you there!
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I'm not sure that the ice fishing appeals - it just looks incredibly cold! Lovely barbel there Chris. Something you see very little of up here, which is a crying shame. One of the local coarse fisheries has mini barbel in one of the ponds, but they really are tiny. The fact that they seem to fight twice as hard as the carp only makes me want to catch them more.
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Some excellent fish there - very jealous! The water I've fished can best be described as a 'runs' water. The floats never stop going under but the fish tend to be small. Runs would typically come at 30 minute intervals. This was never an issue for me before, but I've decided I'd really like a 20 (or larger). I'm scoping a new water reasonably locally that I'm optimistic about. It's fairly large, completely unfished and I reckon has the potential to contain thirties.
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They are truly beautiful fish. Rarely ever my target species but always a welcome bycatch.
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Both lovely fish, the brown especially. The colours on it are just extraordinary. There are browns to over 10lbs in the lake I fish, but with the water not being especially clear, the colours are usually pretty washed out.
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That's total lunacy! Never seen anything like it!
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I did try sweet corn for 20 minutes today on a 14, but just got tiny nibbles on the float, nothing more. It's a hugely deep water that I fish (55ft deep at it's deepest) and I think that the large roach just sink deep over winter. I almost never get them. I'll try lobworm though next time - I have vast numbers of worms in the garden. Good day otherwise though. Had 325 small roach, a pike at 8lb 2oz and a monster rainbow at 8lb 4oz on the whip. 3.3m of pole with hollow nine elastic, with a size 24 hook, single maggot and 3lb 6oz line. Took nearly 20 minutes to get it in, and as I pulled it over the net the hook bent out and pinged off. Luckily, it was already in the net. Stunning fish and very happy to put it back: My legs were wobbling for about 10 minutes afterwards. Longest fight I've had out of a fish since I was a kid and nearly doubled my rainbow pb. Brown trout totally absent today. Water was very brown today due to heavy rain, which I think switched them off.
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It's gets into your head, it really does. I see the merit and appeal of all types of fishing, even if it's not for me. I do like to put my fish back though - breaks my heart when I see big rainbows clopped on the head for no reason other than that is what is expected of the angler.
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Holy flurking schnitt - £4400! That's mental.
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I don't really like Ifors - very heavy and rather expensive too. That Unsinn model I linked to is under £2k plus VAT. I've absolutely hammered mine and it's still in great condition. I'm confident I could still sell it for close to what I paid for it.
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Speak to Jeremy (Arbwork on here, based in Milton Keynes). He is an experienced operator and can also break down larger logs with chainsaw mills.
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Tough day - the rain isn't helping at the moment. Probably out tomorrow on the trout fishery. It's very coloured at the moment, which actually might help with the roach. I've set up a 3.5m line (it'll fish at about 8-9ft depth) on a 14 for sweetcorn to try to coax a larger roach out. Unlikely to be successful but you can only try. I've also fined down my other two lines from 0.13 to 0.11 and down from size 20 back to 24 and also with a micro barb again. Bumping off too many fish at the moment which I think is wrecking the swim with spooked fish. I can't go too light on the elastic as I'll get smashed by the trout, so a compromise is the hollow 9 and reasonably strong line (3lb 6oz).
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Just wasn't sure from the photo! Apologies for asking. Have heard some awful things about the pike culling in Ireland. Where are you fishing tomorrow for the chub?
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Nice pike there - hope that it's not dead though! Pike don't have a great reputation in Ireland sadly. Only on hollow 9 elastic on the 3.3m top two (almost all my fishing is done on that). Sometimes use about 6m of the 11m pole, but that's only a hollow 6-10 as well. I'm convinced it's the hook. Luckily, I was in the tackle shop that I got the Drennan hooks in before (they'd been closed for refurbishment for a month) and they had them. Also had whisker barbed Kamasan B611, so I'll try those as well. Even got a pack of size 26s, though I suspect that's overkill. It's the wide gap hooks I'm presently struggling with - the Drennans are very small. I'll be out again next week to test the theory.
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When I say boat fishing, I mean pike. It's a water I know well, and I have a fair idea where the pike are in winter, but unless it's fairly still, I won't go out. There is nowhere to hide from the weather in the middle of a loch!
