Squaredy

Maybe you should say why you want a sawmill with a bandsaw. Are you hoping to buy it? Are you hoping they will do some re-sawing for you? If that latter perhaps put details on here as there may be other ways. Or it might be what you are hoping for is unlikely to happen. I run a small sawmill, but we very rarely take on re-sawing jobs. Not because we don’t get asked but for commercial reasons.

So, just to be clear, this happened on school premises?

Is it just me or is there a massive elephant in this room? Gordano School apologises after pupils hurt in crush WWW.BBC.CO.UK The Health and Safety Executive says it is looking into how the crush developed at the school gates. I mean yes the school should look at their procedures, but are they not going to tell the kids to not push in future? Is it not allowed these days to ever suggest a child behaved badly? My kids don’t go to this school but if they did I would like to think the first thing the school would do is make it clear that pushing and unruly behaviour is unacceptable.

I could be out of date, but prices here are high. My last batch of WRC sawlogs was £160 per ton delivered. That was maybe a bit less than a year ago. Decent logs mind. But, unless you can ship them across the sea does it matter what the price is here in the UK?

Now I have also tried Victordle. This is where you play competitively with someone else, somewhere in the world. It is great for knocking back your confidence if ever you start to feel you are getting good at it! I don't like it much as it takes away the pleasure (for me anyway) if you are under time pressure.

I am pretty sure you can get word processors these days that fit on a small desk. Something like this... No need for any trailer, but it will need a power source I believe.

Been doing it for years, on work days with a cuppa when I get home with my Mrs. We do it as a joint effort. Have you tried Quordle? Four to do simultaneously with nine guesses (total) instead of six. Can be a lot of fun, and not as hard as it sounds. Anybody willing to share their opening words? I always use AUDIO followed by EVERY.

The reason small elms keep popping up (mainly in hedgerows) is that when a tree dies due to Dutch Elm Disease it is only the part above ground which dies off. In fact it is the tree itself which shuts down the top part, so the vast root system survives. It then puts up many new shoots, some of which then survive until eventually the elm bark beetle finds them, and it happens all over again. Sadly this is also the reason they aren't developing immunity. The new trees are literally clones of the original that succumbed to DED. But there are millions of young elm trees in the UKs hedgerows, so every now and then one gets to a decent size. And of course there are still many survivor trees in Scotland and Brighton.

I agree with all the negatives mentioned about salmon farming, but with two more to add. To produce one kilo of farmed salmon takes about five kilos of wild fish, so the whole process is not only extremely harmful to the environment it is also very inefficient. And to top it all, much of the Scottish salmon is actually flown across to the USA. Apparently many of the passenger jets heading from London to NYC have 2500 kilos of Scottish salmon in the hold. And just to square this particular circle we also import over 100,000 tons of salmon, mainly from Norway. Needless to say I never eat salmon. But I have read that trout farming is a lot better. It takes place in ponds so does not necessarily pollute the sea, and don’t they have a vegetarian diet?

Much depends on the design of your coffee table. If you plan to have gaps between boards, or some other method of allowing movement and shrinkage then you might get away with two years or a bit less. If your design means movement would be a disaster then perhaps longer. But I would suggest after a year or so see if you can move the boards somewhere similar to their final destination. Then you need to periodically check moisture until they are losing no more water.

This was a surprise when I got to work this morning.

Yes I understand, but freshly cut oak is of course worth a lot less than two years seasoned. And of course anybody experienced in buying oak will know that they always look lovely straight off the saw, but when they are dry they are usually bendy, twisty the grain is no longer visible and there may be cracks and shakes.

I would like to know what you class as expensive!

I am afraid the planning laws we have in this country, combined with steadily increasing population mean every little bit of land in a built up area is likely to be seen as a potential plot for a house. Inevitably this will cause conflict. I remember as a child growing up in semi rural Surrey being dismayed at how many beautiful large houses with lovely large gardens were being developed into modern tasteless executive houses. Indeed the house I was born in was built in the extremely extensive grounds of a small stately home. But that was a little different as it still left a huge garden. But in my nineteen years living in the area the number of houses must have at least doubled, always at the expense of nice open green areas. And that was an area with a blanket PTO. I have recently been looking in Monmouthshire to see if I could buy a building plot to build my own house. Forget it. There is almost literally nothing. Plenty of farmland near me being turned over to housing - but nothing for the little guy like me to build one house.

Very nice. Which type of cedar are they? I’m afraid selling them is like selling anything. You need to invest time and effort and money to find out what they might be worth, then more time effort and money making sure you dry and store the slabs properly, then more time effort and money putting the word around of what you have on offer. Asking on here is a start, but there are already many people on here trying to sell such slabs. If you list them with good photos on Facebook marketplace or eBay you may get takers, but are you willing to ship them to customers?

I have the LT15 classic wide, electric model. Maximum width of cut 900mm in theory (a bit less now I have fitted the debarker). Great machine; cost around £9700 including VAT, but may be a bit more now. The petrol one is of course more expensive. From memory I believe the Woodlands Mill ones are also well spoken of on Arbtalk.

Carey.

Are there really harvesting heads which also strip bark? All the years I have been buying logs for milling I have yet to be offered stripped logs. Is this just the government being totally out of touch with the real world? Or am I out of date?

I can only go on my own experience. I have used a Woodmizer for three years and am very impressed. Didn’t break the bank, excellent UK based support, very efficient. There are threads on Arbtalk making other recommendations though.

Why not just get one of the modern narrow blade bandsaws? Probably cheaper, brand new, and more efficient.

Yeah twenty-five pence a pint. But when average wage is £1 per hour that is actually about the same as today’s price. Housing is the thing that has increased out of all proportion. Food is generally cheaper now.

What am I missing? This is the jokes thread…

I guess there will now be a new market opened up of trendy vans with extra seats in which are classed as commercial vehicles and so do not attract benefit in kind tax charges. Before they abolished the tolls on the severn bridges it was a similar thing there. Is it a van or a large car with seats? The point being the car was something like £6 to cross, the van (no matter how small) was about £12.

I do agree we need better electricity storage. Don't forget this has been achieved very well by pump storage power stations - the first one came online in 1963. But wind is not the only answer of course. As for subsidies, who pays for the cleanup when fossil fuel extraction ceases? It is the taxpayer of course. OK, the company behind it may make a contribution, but there are currently thousands of disused oil platforms which no-one really has a clue how to dispose of. And what about the millions of land based oil wells which are not properly capped? Why are the companies not made to cap them when they are no longer needed? Instead they leak vast amounts of methane and the local authority tries to deal with the problem. I live near the South Wales coalfield - it still costs many millions per year to manage the spoil heaps etc. All subsidised by our taxes.

Offshore wind is indeed the cheapest way to generate electricity these days. No subsidy is needed. Which is why it is booming. And is why I get electricity at 75% off for my electric van. What will help as well is to stop subsidising fossil fuels. In fact government subsidies are really the biggest cause of all our current problems. If the consumer had to pay the real cost of producing food we would all eat less meat and more veg.