Big J
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Right, sorted the haulage. 65 or 70 cubic metre loads, from an artic tipper, anywhere within 100 miles of EH52 for £32 a cubic metre.
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Chain oil doesn't get burnt either though. You'd easily use 5 litres in a day's milling whereas 5 litres of red lasts me weeks.
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No trace of the dye and in terms of environmental impact, I probably produce 50 cubic metres of Sawdust for 10 litres of diesel used, which is much better than a chainsaw mill.
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Use diesel as the blade lubricant rather than water. Water is messy, doesn't lubricate well and reacting with the steel of the blade stains the wood. Also, you use very, very little diesel by comparison - get weeks and weeks of cutting out of about 5 litres of red.
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<p>Hi Jeremy - sounds bloody heavy! I'll post some photos on Saturday, or if you can PM me your phone number over, I'll text them to you. J</p>
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Lovely shed there Adam! It is a lot of machine for the money. I'm just about to put an order in for the frame saw and the edger.
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Not having sifted through the entire thread, all I'd really like to see added is a much, much larger PM inbox. Given that most PMs are just text, the storage requirements are very small. Having only 100 is very limiting. -
Looking for some milled greeen oak in the North East
Big J replied to tcfengineering's topic in Milling Forum
I have oak up to 3m in the yard and loads of exceptional quality larch up to 8m - it's boatskin grade really. We are 108 miles away, just west of Edinburgh. -
What did you get?
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Don't think so on the English front. Just for reference, my friend will be importing the WEB series of Unsinn trailers shortly. We're keeping it simple and not doing customised trailers at this time. I've had the WEB28 since May, put about 12000 miles onto it and it's been fantastic. Great trailer.
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Much appreciated Stu, and spoke to Ian this morning. No luck though. Still on the hunt!
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I hope you mean report - to repot all those trees will take a while!
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Stressed to a point. Always stressed to a point, but more so in preparation for a large elm felling job. The prospect of 3-4 weeks on site, a £20k contractor bill and no certainty out income is indeed stressful. Not looking to do too much more of this and have a less stressful line of work developing. Less time away from the family too. My difficulty is that I always over extend myself, buying kit that I know will be very useful and will earn me money, but it does take it's toll. Would really like to get to the point of having a couple of months turnover sat in the bank as a buffer. I'm certain I'd sleep much more soundly.
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Bumpety bump. In need of some more - have plenty coming my way in May, but need about 50 tonnes (or more) just now. Half of it needs to be minimum about 450mm top end - length is unimportant.
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Hard to get an idea of scale - what diameter is that log?
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Lovely morning here. Clear, minus 2 and optimistic for a day without rain. Nearly managed it yesterday but for a shower in the afternoon. If we are dry today, it will end 31 days of continuous rainfall.
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All 23 or 25mm stock. No variation and batches done by the lorry load. Right, mind made up, I'll order one. Just need to fund the bloody thing now!
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Reasonable demand. It's behind elm and oak, but is probably third in popularity.
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Won't be me operating it - I'll be on the mill. Cants can be mechanically conveyed straight from sawmill to the frame saw (hydraulically powered rollers on the sawmill are handy) and can be cut whilst the next log is getting dimensioned on the sawmill.
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Much higher power requirement for circular saws and I wouldn't be able to keep up with a faster speed rate anyway. Surely one lorry load a day is enough!?
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The blade spacing is entirely adjustable. I think that I probably have about 850 tonnes to cut this year, and I think that this is most likely the quickest and most accurate way of doing it. Even with a 60mm band on the Trak met sawmill, the cut isn't infallible (especially through knotty material) and a frame saw will just simplify things. It's another bloody machine though - most cost!
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It is slow in terms of feed speed, but if you work out that even at the slowest feed speed, it will cut an entire (up to 500mm diameter) 4.9m log in 8 minutes. No handling either. The plan would be to take the log onto the sawmill, take top and bottom off until the prescribed thickness is achieved and then fire it into the frame saw. Top and bottom boards go through the edger - should be very quick. The last wagon load of softwood was 33 logs (decent sized 5.3m sticks) and it took 2.5 days. Should be doable in a day with the frame saw. Will - I don't think that I would use it for cutting unflattened logs (ie I'd only use it for cants) but the machine from Trakmet does have a sizeable log clamp on it. Will be very interested to see Copford's set up.
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Hi all, Wondering if anyone here has experience with frame saws? The volumes of softwood cutting that I think that I will be doing this year are such that it seems to make sense to invest in one. I am looking at this: Trak-Met : Pilarki, Owijarki, Traki : Sawmill machines - Sawmill machines - 8-ROLLER FRAME SAWING MACHINE PRU-570 Would mean very rapid production of planks, and total production of over 25 cubic metres of sawn material per 8hr shift. It's not a sawing process I've ever seen and nor do I know anyone with one.
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It's not. Look at the edge cuts. Hugely wandering cut.
