Big J
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I don't know what happened with you guys, but I got a lovely Bulgarian wife free with my timber purchase!
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There is a 5 foot diameter hollow Oak butt, about 7-8ft long sat here on Dalmeny. I am sure that you could get it for free if you could uplift it!
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We had it warmer than you Southerners yesterday at 30 celcius! I just limit myself to short days, try to stick to shade, don't do any forestry work (felling in summer is contrary to best practice in silviculture anyway) and get out swimming in rivers and lochs/reservoirs as much as possible. I'm looking forward to winter!
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You basically just can't cut high quality timber in this heat. It will crack and distort far far more than in winter. Wait until it cools down and do other jobs until then. It's frustrating, but not as frustrating as wasting good timber.
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Get this man a Cornetto! Yes - means the lorry is loaded in both directions. What would you charge roadside for nice SC?
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Cornwall to Northamptonshire, then Northamptonshire to up here. Surprisingly cheap to get timber cut there, hence the economy of it all.
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A last minute thing really - I'm struggling to be organised enough to plan ahead at the moment. This heat is fuzzing me right up! Regarding knotty timber, I think you do need a great deal more power than I've got. Mine's 20hp, as I said, but only belt driven. I think in order to get the full whack of torque, it needs to be chain driven as the belts just slip when the going gets really tough. That said, I know the machines limitations, and I can quite easily chainsaw and split 6-8 cube in a day without breaking a sweat.
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Very good Steve - love the book particularly
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I could certainly use a wagon load later in the year, so long as it's shake and twist free. No size restriction either - Helmdon sawmills can take anything we can throw at it.
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Awful. Can't get anything done as it's a south facing sun trap. The coolest, dampest, darkest barn I have is still 26 celcius. I've got a kiln to unload and reload tomorrow, which I am not at all looking forward to. With splitters, you pretty much get what you pay for unfortunately. With screw splitters, they are not suited to knotty timber at all, with their area of expertise being easy to split, straight grained timber. Perhaps better than throwing more money at splitters would be to buy a nice Gransfors Axe to accompany the splitter you have. With a good axe, chainsaw and reasonably weak splitter, there is very little you won't get through. If it's really stubborn just chainsaw it in half!
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Do you ever get any nice planking grade Chestnut? I'd like to get some this winter, but there is nothing of any quality up here. All ring shaken to hell.
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I've got a screw splitter with a 20HP v-twin powering it, and whilst it's very good for sawmill offcuts (and very fast too), it's not what I'd consider a general purpose splitter. If you have knotty timber, get a powerful hydraulic splitter. You are welcome to come and see what my splitter can and can't do at some point.
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Rob D is your man in that neck of the woods with sawmilling. He has a variety of machines that can tackle the Cedar.
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I can't comment on the brackets, but bloody hell that is one impressive tree! Needs to be on the Ancient tree register as I can't see it being less than 800-1000 years old.
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£24 a cubic foot, plus VAT. Kiln dried to about 8-10%.
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Hi Danny, The place to go locally is Binnie Plants on Ecclesmachan Road. They aren't expensive compared to garden centres (on account of them being a nursery) and they really know their stuff.
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It's a lovely little tree when you look at it on street view. If the owners were that desperate, it could just be reduced a touch?
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We are the most unlikely bunch of tree huggers, given that we cut them down for a living. Would be quite a funny human interest story for the local press - "Tree fellers turned tree huggers - local tree surgeons unite together to save ancient Yew tree"
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Lovely work there Steve Still got a bit of that tree if anyone wants any!
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6ft 8" here and I have had Oregon Fjordlands for the last couple of pairs. Very good trousers, and I would reckon they'd last a full year in full time cutting (they lasted me two in part time work). Cheap and not too warm outside of winter. I have XL.
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Yep, half German, but interestingly the German side of the family does burn. I also took epilepsy tablets (Tegratol/carbamazepine) as a kid, and don't recall it making sun burn any worse. I did have one bad sunburn experience in Florida, but that was after I stopped taking the tablets.
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You don't have to tell me! Not somewhere that I would come if not for my wife's family. That said, to my surprise we went to a most stunning swimming spot in Northampton(shire) last night - the perfect antidote for this hot weather. We swam in the River Nene at Tansor, and you couldn't have asked for a better place. Good water quality, excellent depth and you could swim for as far as you liked. Easy access, a beautiful stand of poplar opposite, loads of good pubs locally and the water was 21.8c. Highly recommended! It's just at the boat club in the village centre.
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Ya big wooses! Never been burned in Scotland, never been burned as an adult (if memory serves). I've felt the sun the last few days (I'm down near Northampton presently), but many hours of exposure with no sun cream have resulted in me going ever so slightly browner. I have some sort of freakish sun tolerance gene as my dad is ginger and doesn't really burn.
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NEWS FLASH: "Northern tree surgeon killed in apparent 'Heat rage' incident" Eye witnesses recount local tree surgeon Dean Lofthouse being chipped by riled local authority workers after reportedly offering them Cornettos, but eating them himself.
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All collected this morning and off to the mill. Everything wemt swimmingly, and thanks again to Martin and Peter. These stems won't be cut until early winter, so if anyone else has good elm in the area, let me know. Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire etc. Looking for the kind of quality you see in the photos above.
