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Ooooh, ya beauty! Usually you like to think that softwood cutting is going to be free of heavy metal. I don't have a photo of it in the log, but I did have a ripple sycamore log two years ago that was riddled with metal around the middle. More than a dozen nails, 24 inches of chain link chain and worst of all several Victorian wrought iron climbing spikes (the heaviest of which weighed over 10 ounces). Expensive log!

Beautifully made Clive. Well done.

Good saws if you keep them simple. You can very quickly get up to hydraulic Woodmizer money if you overspec them, and then you are better going for something of that ilk.

Seconded for a (floor) scraper. Brushing is tedious and slow.

No. You pay VAT as well (and claim it back if you are VAT registered) but import duty is different. I think I paid 1.7% for the mill.

If you have a bent log and need straight boards, you are best to find a straight log. Even if you manage to get a few boards out of it, the wastage will be terrible and the boards will have tension in them due to the grain not being straight or following the cut. Save the bent ones for the firewood pile or mill through and throught and sell the bend as a feature.

Excellent videos and welcome to the forum.

Very nice, lots of applications, but much too wee for me. When I eventually replace one of the forklifts, it will need to lift at least 5 tonnes. What are the overall dimensions of the that little telehandler?

I think it was about £2500, but we did have a poor exchange rate.

Incredibly sad - very sorry to hear. All strength to his family and friends.

Pictures would be very useful, as well as a DBH (diameter at breast height) measurement.

Glad to hear that you are starting to get out and back to the things you love Sean. Much respect, as ever.

I find them very quick to process as firewood, but the value depends on how thick the slabs are. Broadly speaking, they burn a bit quicker, but take half the time to process (that's for me, processing with a screw splitter - 1 cube every 20-25 minutes cut and split on slabwood, about 45 minutes on cordwood per cube). Also give off more heat. I've got quite a bit too and was looking for £25/t if anyone in Edinburgh wants it.

I am half British, half German, born in England and resided there for the first 20 years, and the last 10 years up here. I didn't say Scotland was a hole - quite the contrary. It has some amazing places and some amazing people (though there are obviously some complete holes), just like huge numbers of other countries. That being said, if I were to make the move again (that we did 10 years ago), I'd move to Germany, which is a more pleasant place to live for a great number of reasons. As it happens, we're tied here now and it's perfectly fine. What I object to with some of the language you use (and the language Salmond et al are so fond of) is that is reminds me of the Nuremberg Rallies. Nationalism is ugly and often dangerous and I'd love to see it disappear.

Scotland the Brave, yada yada yada, Scotland the fierce, yada yada yada YAWN! Having just returned from a 2000 mile round trip driving through Scotland, England, France, Belgium and Germany, I'd like to remind the most patriotic of Scots that apart from some fairly spectacular mountains, there isn't anything especially special about Scotland. It's much like most other places, with a generally crapper build environment and more litter. Nationalism is a disease fueled by xenophobia and exploited by those intelligent enough to recognise that. On the 70th anniversary of VE Day and with an aggressive Putin (that hero of Salmond's) utilising Nationalistic fervour to cause suffering to millions, I'd urge people to try to consider the world in a more multilateral sense, rather than struggling to see further than own borders.

The last few pages of this thread have put a nice smile on my face Excellent posts from Tom and Difflock too.

I don't think I've actually come across a white supremacist before. New experience, and not one I'd care to repeat!

Looks oak like to me.

Haha! I was wondering if that would come up - I would argue that there is a difference between intellectually testing individuals and assigning rights to vote accordingly and disregarding an entire race due to perceived inherent intellectual shortcomings. I disagree. The differences at the top of the sports you mention are minute (which is obviously all it takes in sport to win) and much of who is successful in a given sport is down to cultural influences. Either way, to summarise your viewpoint thus far, I think it would be fair to say you believe that immigrants are a bunch of HIV riddled, low intelligence benefit scroungers. You cannot be surprised when you are met with hostility if you try to open a debate as to whether people of African descent are fundamentally thicker than everyone else. Have you perhaps considered the possibility that given the day to day struggles of living in poverty don't allow a huge amount of time for winning Nobel prizes?

I know, but when coupled with his other posts on this thread, it implies he is giving weight to the person he is quoting. I'm just wary of new members posting controversially, posting exclusively on controversial threads. It's not a productive way of integrating into a community.

Can I just pick up on this and state unequivocally that this is one of the most offensive things I've ever read on Arbtalk. It's viewpoints like your's that have been used as justification for subjugation, oppression, slavery and genocide. When coupled with your other 'contributions' to this thread, please can I ask you leave Arbtalk and not return. Deeply offensive and misguided human being.

As you say, there just aren't many good oak stands. It's odd trees here and there, and long clean lengths are quite rare. Hence the inflated price and why I stay away from oak beams.

I suppose I am thinking oak beam prices up here, which are a bit higher as we've a poorer stock of oak. I don't charge as much as that, but I rarely cut oak beams.

Nice beam, minimal sapwood. At least £28/cubic foot (so £250), but you might be able to push it a bit past that, especially if you're not VAT registered and it's a domestic customer.

None at all, but would be interested to see before and after photos.