Big J
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Best days out are a combination of the two! Looking forward to heading back down your way again
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Getting depth guages right is very tricky. I do think that the chains for milling come supplied with the depth guages far too high. Case in point was me recently upgrading to a 50 inch bar. Pretty slow milling ensued, despite new chain but I put that down to the wider cut. Eventually, I thought, this is silly, and kept taking the depth guages down. This made a bigger difference to the speed of cut than anything. You want the saw to be just the right side of grabby (I don't really use a guide - just file down by eye) so that it does occassionally stall itself, but more often than not, it's pulling itself through the wood. Taking the depth guages down from standard to just the right side of grabby tripled the cutting rate in 40 inch oak. Love the extraction method btw! Jonathan
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You're telling me! Went for a quick swim in the Tweed yesterday in Upper Tweeddale near Dawyck Botanic gardens. Dog had spend the last hour in it, so I thought, how cold can it be? Well, I came out after a few minutes with an IOU slip from the river for my wedding vegetables!
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Very nice!
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Hi Mike, sorry about that - PM sent!
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Need a cutter just west of Edinburgh for long term work - how's your self selecting in hardwoods?
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Lovely stuff Steve - really nice!
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Hi David, You are welcome to carve at my yard. I've lots of space, lots of timber and a forklift to move stuff around with. Also got lots of sequoia coming in next week. Jonathan
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Hoppus measure: (in inches) 1/4 girth squared, times length, divided by 1728. Example. 36 inch diameter butt, 9ft long. 36 x 3.142 = 113.1 113.1 / 4 = 28.3 28.3 x 28.3 = 800.9 800.9 x 108 = 86497.2 (volume in cubic inches) 86497.2 / 1728 = 50.1 (volume in cubic foot accounting for sawing wastage)
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Alec, based on the hoppus foot measure of 25-27 hoppus foot per tonne (as in a one one tonne sawlog will contain 25-27 hoppus foot), my price is £3-6 a cubic foot, roughly. Had a very large oak (42 inch) butt that I paid three pounds a hoppus foot for this week. Lovely log, but too big to move and had to be chainsaw milled in situ. Had that been easily delivered to my yard, I'd have paid £5 a cube!
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It's the speed of log handling that is key, especially on larger logs. To load, rotate, account for taper with toe boards and clamp take about a minute with the LT40. With the Lumbermate this would take at least 7 or 8 minutes. Then each time you rotate the log, you have to start again. I can see their appeal for economically converting timber, but you have to have a lot of time on your hands, as well as a lot of energy!
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£75-150 a tonne, based on quality. Devaluing factors are length (as Alec says, 8ft is a touch short), shake (ring or radial), how clean it is and access. A knotty lump in a boggy field is almost worthless, whereas a clean length roadside is not.
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I think as much as anything, they've built it to a weight spec. It comes in at under 750kg, so towable on any licence. There just isn't enough steel in that to be rigid!
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I can speak only for my experiences, and I should stress that I am in no way set on Woodmizer (stop gap mill). However, the main thing that the Lumbermate did was set me on a hydraulic mill. Hydraulic log handling, as well as powered feed is the key to productivity. On the topic of build quality, I found the headrig on the Lumbermate to be fine (bar the unsolved issues causing a band breakage every two hours of cutting) but the track was very flimsy.
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I didn't have very good experiences with one that was kindly lent to me. I found the quality of the cut to be poor and it blew bands with a frightening regularity. Also, compared to the woodmizer, it's about 5 times slower.
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Just search ebay or the like for a hygrometer. You want a remote one so that you can monitor it from the outside.
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Wider bands certainly appeal but they are costly. That's the beauty of narrow band mills - if you demolish a band on metal, it's £20 to replace. The time that I'm spending on the woodmizer is certainly informing my choice as to what I want to get when I replace it. I do think that I will be as fixated on width of cut as before - I think that 36 inches would suffice. The difficulty with monster boards is that they are difficult to handle, difficult to stack, and 95% of my customers would only rip it up the middle anyway. I would certainly choose a less complicated machine that the woodmizer, with less electrics. Either way, I'm 56 hours into my Woodmizer experience. I intend to keep it for about a year, so it's giving me plenty of time to make up my mind about it's replacement. I might even apply for a grant myself. Jonathan
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Good luck with it. Make sure not to disk a potential sawlog. You'll have sawmillers after your bloody otherwise!
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Bloody stupid woman. We have 1200 ewes on the estate here and despite the fact that our dog leaves the sheep well alone, we don't go anywhere near the sheep for at least 6 weeks before lambing. As you say, she won't be happy when it's shot.
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Smoke leak I'd say. Burning unseasoned wood isn't going to help.
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Do you think there's too much orange in this pic
Big J replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in General chat
I've been using my DCS7901 quite a lot lately (Makita branded Dolmar) on a 24 inch bar and it's bloody lovely. Having used an MS460, I would pick up the Makita every time. Blue blue blue! -
Another Lisitsa recording - great thing is she is a top grade concert pianist and posts all her recordings on youtube, in HQ, for free. A Rachmaninov prelude I've always loved - so longing and heartbreaking: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8VgS-2hpk&list=UU6UbiyGEGkF5iuqKRsShCOg&index=2&feature=plcp]Rachmaninoff Prelude B Minor Op 32 Valentina Lisitsa - YouTube[/ame]
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Lycetts Robert. When I had your Shogun, they were the cheapest by miles and I've got all my insurances with them now. I've got the 11 plate Navara insured, fully comp, all drivers over 25 insured, tiny excess, no mileage limit, full business use and me aged 27 with only three years no claims at £690.
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I'm sorry to hear that mate. All the best for a speedy recovery. My wife gets pretty terrible migranes with vision loss, but not in the same league as your's. Jonathan
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Love the Chopin studies. Favourites are opus 10, numbers 3, 5 and 12 and opus 25, numbers 5, 9 and 12. Also can't beat a bit of Lizst in the morning to wake you up - this is one of my very favourite pieces, but don't drive to it. You'll drive far too fast! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBXA1tBiLw]Liszt Totentanz - YouTube[/ame]
