Big J

A cubic foot is 1728 cubic inches, so a board 24 inches x 1 inch x 6 ft would be a cubic foot, or 18 inches x 1.5 inches x 6ft, or 12 inches x 2 inches x 6ft....and so on. Hope that helps!

7 miles paddy.

We have quite of a lot of smaller diameter (up to 18-20 inch) burr elm logs in the yard at the moment available for sale. Can be milled to order and lengths are 8-10ft. Rich colour as felled when live, wacky figure and plenty of burring. £20 a cubic foot, delivery by pallet. PM me or call on 07832 106156 if you are interested. Happen to be heading down south as far as Derby this weekend with a trailer so if you are quick you might even get hugely discounted delivery! Jonathan

In need of a part time self employed cutter again. I'm pulling back from cutting myself, as the new yard and acquisition of a woodmizer are eating up all my time. Looking for someone 1-3 days a week, self employed, self reliant and able to work under own innitive. Working with a very experienced foreman cutter who will keep you right in the stands. Need to have plenty of commercial forestry experience, including self selecting hardwood thinnings. Rates of pay dependent on experience, to a degree. References required. Work is ongoing and the site is lovely. PM me if you are interested. Jonathan

Quickest fence in the world to erect too. Excluding putting in the posts (which was a bit of a trial), we got up 50ft in 2 hours. It's just flat sawn larch.

Good to hear. Getting more confident on it now (put about 100-110 cubic foot of flat sawn, but mostly oversized hardwoods through it today on a short day) and have the woodmizer rep coming to give me a days training this week. I've been paying close attention to them each time I've hired one in over the past 14 months, so they are familiar machines to me. Operating them is a different matter, but I regard myself as sufficiently anally retentive to be a reasonable sawmiller! Years of chainsaw milling have also given me quite a bit of patience, so I won't rush a cut. Robert, consider yourself PMed!

Why thank you! By the way, can we buy Bish Bash back from you? This blinking Navara requires a backup vehicle!

I'm not really! It's lack of a reasonable alternative. It seems to be cutting well though, and I think that it's better to have a realistic idea of their limitations, rather than try to claim they are the bees knees! Thanks for the encouragement guys

I thought that it was about time that I advertised my sawmilling services on here At Robinson Sawmilling, we can offer a complete sawmilling service tackling just about any log you can find. We use a combination of an LT40 fully hydraulic woodmizer (lots of useful options on it, including full computer set works and debarker) and a capacious chainsaw mill, sporting a 50 inch bar allowing for a 43 inch cut. The upshot of this is that we can easily tackle any log up to 4ft diameter (load handling equipment such as a forklift is required) by halving it with the chainsaw mill (much quicker and neater than free hand cutting) and popping it on the woodmizer. Alternatively, we can just mill it fully with the chainsaw mill and whilst it is much slower and more wasteful with kerf, it will produce huge boards! We can travel to your site, anywhere in Scotland or Northern England (mileage charges apply beyond 15 miles), mill your timber, offer advice on drying or help with other sawmilling applications. The woodmizer is new to us, and an introductory rate applies as I get up to speed. However, I do have 55 tonnes of timber at my own yard to munch through before I'm happy to let myself loose on the world. As a business, we have been established 3 years, milled hundreds of tonnes of timber starting with a chainsaw mill and built ourselves up. This gradual progression means that nothing has been rushed and a sound knowledge of sawmilling and drying has been achieved. Rates for mobile milling are as follows: Woodmizer and operator day rate: £350 plus VAT (£280 for month of April) Mileage charge: £0.50 plus VAT a mile both ways beyond 15 miles Sharpening costs are covered in the day rate, but damage to bands is chargable at £20 plus VAT per band. Additional chainsaw milling is best done with the assistance of a second operator which is an additional £100 plus VAT, however productivity does increase with a second pair of hands. We can also mill your timber at our yard, which is just west of Edinburgh. The advantages are that we have space, a forklift and all kit on site. Productivity will be higher. We can air dry your timber on site and even kiln it as required. Please contact me for rates. My contact details are 07832 106156 or [email protected]. Our website is in chronic need of an update, but is Untitled Document Some pictures from the yard and chainsaw milling off site:

Thanks for the replies folks. Going to get it swept on Tuesday. Unlikely to be birds as it's almost never off. It's been running for about 2 and a half months now without a sweep, whilst we've been learning to use it, so it's probably tarred up a little quicker than usual. Jonathan

Quick Rayburn question. Just yesterday, the Rayburn has started smoking excessively from various points on the stove, and even one place on the flue (where it joints from single skin to double) mainly when you are lighting it. I suspect that the flue isn't drawing as well as it should - is it a simple case of sweeping the chimney, or is it something more sinister?

It's a tree shaped like a golf club - what a corker! Thanks for sharing that.

If the quality is good, it's a prime candidate for quarter sawing. Please don't chain mill it, as it could be worth a good deal of money to the right person. Find a local large mill, or get it to Helmdon sawmills in Northamptonshire. Steve might well buy it from you depending on quality. Two ten foot lengths would be the way to go, and I would expect you'd get around £1000 a length (£5 a hoppus) at the mill.

Very nice! Now that is what you call a feasting table!

Cherry is just about my very favourite timber to burn, with the possible exception of burr elm (I just burn both species to wind up wood turners!). Round wood cherry burns great, seasons quickly, leaves a lovely bed of embers and gives off a good heat. Jonathan

Wow! A lot less than I would have thought on the tonne. They really are lovely logs with almost no knots in - very clean 70-80 year old trees. I'll start on £30 a tonne and go from there. Thanks for all the help. Robert - bang on the money there, as ever. Beecraigs specials! Jonathan

Hi there, I managed to completely by fluke bump into the lady at West Lothian Council with whom I needed to have a chat about sawlogs. There are some very large Sitka butts from the January storms (7 + metres long 60-80cm diameter) available and she asked me to offer, but I really don't have a clue what the going rate is, being a hardwoods man usually. Would £40-45 a tonne secure them? Thanks in advance! Jonathan

I've got 130 cubic foot of top quality lime air drying. Didn't cost much and took only a day to mill at 3 to 4 inch thickness. Carver's delight, I'm told!

If you can stretch to it, go for a Wadkin like this: wadkin tradesman 12"planer/thicknesser 240v | eBay Regarding woodworking machinery, older nearly always seems to be better. Modern machines just don't have the volume of cast iron in them to be stable or robust enough. Jonathan

A furniture maker was talking to me the other day about quarter sawn plane, and that is was worth a considerable amount. I can't remember the name he used for the quarter sawn timber though. Would love to see some pictures if you get a moment.

No kidding! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYLDAc9BuM]Bill Maher's Religulous: "Dr." Jeremiah Cummings - YouTube[/ame]

Hand arm vibration syndrome - no anti vibration system on that saw!

I'm getting HAVS just looking at that saw!