Big J
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Much better (and quicker) to do it with a chainsaw mill with long vertical posts. Perfect straight edge. I've sold one brown oak, though it was a little while ago. I think my standard QS oak was £48 a cube and the brown QS was £55.
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Very nice, though rough chainsaw work to the right edge of the board. Ruins presentation in my mind. About an extra 10-20% over normal oak.
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Stunning! It will be even more eye catching once oiled
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Outstanding. Completely free of shake
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£20 is a bit low. £28 would be more like it.
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In Aviemore this evening and at least minus 10 out at the moment (car saying minus 10, which is what it said 3hrs ago on the way back from the pub, crappy little IKEA internal thermometer maxed out at minus 10 and just says LO). Lovely and crisp though, 4-6" of snow. Winter proper.
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Is telescopic handling a must? I got a old Coventry Climax 4x4 masted forklift for a third the price of an equivalent age/condition telehandler.
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Posting this incase any of you missed it, but truly inspiration grit and determination from these chaps: BBC News - US climbers tell of 'inspirational' El Capitan climb
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A Plane of that size needs to be quartersawn. If you are just getting into sawing, it's probably best to punt it on as it is (try for £12/hf though). Jealous of your Serra!
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I've got bloody loads of the stuff - had nearly 2000 hoppus of mostly elm through the mill in the last 6 weeks. I just can't turn down good elm when it pops up in England. One stem is from Pontefract (36" diameter Wheatley Elm, nice log) and the other two from near Huntingdon. All of it is going down to Cornwall.
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Stunning timber there Andy. Nice to actually see Steve's mill cutting too - I've had plenty of timber from him, but never been there for the cutting. That said, I'm there at the start of next month cutting some elm with him. How much of the walnut did you end up getting out of that orchard?
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Sorted it out [ame] [/ame]
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I think (if memory serves) the non mobile Wimmer BN110 was about £58k and making it mobile was another £10k on top of that. An alternative (Canadian option) that I like the look of is Selectsaw. It runs wide double cutting bands, so is very fast. AJ Scots in Northumberland have one.
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Just spotted this on the BBC Scotland page. Must be the biggest root plate I've ever seen (must be 25ft). Not sure I'd be standing under it. Any pictures of monster root plates? I remember doing a windblown 6ft diameter lime three years ago that had about 20ft of rootplate. No photos though.
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Edit: Minor collapse is actually a case of: Wind lifts roof up Moves it one foot to the left Roof gets condemned So, now I've got a 58x24ft roof to do (the estate won't pay for it). It's presently pitched, but I'll keep it as a mono pitch for simplicity. I could have done without that - major expense!
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I did see that a while ago - certainly looks interesting but not really what I'd call mobile! Mike - Wimmer make stunning machines. I got a quote from them (a lot of money) for their smallest mobile machine when I was on the hunt for my sawmill. It's all relative though. A Lumbermate is dwarfed by a Woodmizer LM40. My mill dwarfs an LM40 and I suspect this mill dwarfs mine. Wider bands doesn't always mean better cuts, but it certainly helps.
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Good investment. I will probably eventually look at one for slabbing big logs.
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Possibly. It could certainly take a larger trailer, and with straighter material you'd get more on. Actually finding a 2 or 2.5t trailer online is tricky. They are all either 1.5 or 3t. Assuming you had straight spruce, a stack 1.5m wide, 1m high of 3.7s would be near enough 2.5t. The JCBs seem to have better ground clearance. Infact they almost all do - shame really as 2.2t is a bit better to tow than 2.8t. -
Bloody sorry to hear that Tom.
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Good questions. Ground clearance varies and actually isn't that good on the model I looked at (160mm, though 280mm on some models). Bear in mind it's a first and second thinning machine and stumps should be low. Machine width of 1300mm means you should also be able to avoid running over stumps.
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No, but my mill only cost £20k. If every day was a good day, it turns £800-1000 worth of raw material into £5000 of sawn product (final, kilned value). Minimal running costs, one man day of labour and also not having to deal with firewood customers! We can all produce endless firewood/sawn timber - it's the selling of it that is tricky!
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Been thinking a bit more about the mini forwarder thing, in particular the mini excavator idea you suggested TCD. I worked out you could get a quite new 2.2t excavator (sub 2000 hours, zero tail swing), grab, timber trailer, low mileage TD5 110, plant trailer and training for about £24k. Realistically (on a 2-2.5t payload), what would you expect a machine like this to pull out in a day on an average site? [ame] [/ame] Advantages are that it has a greater lift capacity than most forwarders it's size, and the hydraulics will be stronger (IMO) and quicker. Main disadvantage is slow tracking speed (4.2kph) so limited to sites with shorter extraction routes.
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I know. The big circular saw processors are awesome but much more expensive than big hydraulic mills (which is daft as they can't produce the same value of product). I quite like this one: TurnerFirewood Processor Not the quickest, but cheap, well made and Bill at Turnermills is open to customisation (I spoke to them for a while before settling on Logmaster).
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Dry kindling plus dry newspaper (sounds daft to stipulate dry paper, but you really want to store it by the fire for best results) equals fire lit. All this talk of firelighters seems over complicated to me.
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Sod that - get one of the monster splitters from the States. There are so many models out there that split 36". They aren't that fast, but have to be quicker than a chainsaw and splitter.
