Squaredy

Aha! Now we have a picture. Looks very odd to me, but I am sure someone will have some good suggestions.

Frustrating. And what is the bet they just ringed it up for firewood? And the final irony will be that they won’t dry it properly and will moan that it isn’t burning very well. I feel your frustration.

This one has to be real. If it were a bot it would surely make some sense.

Clearly there has been a leak, so this needs to be repaired if not already done. Then secondly as has been said check for soft parts in those beams. Remember that dry rot and wet rot both need moisture, so as long as the leak is only historic then no new rot will take place. Just find out if the timber is still strong. I would use a hammer to hit the beams. If they are sound you will leave slight marks. If rotten they will get severely damaged by the hammer.

The first Coyote Ugly bar in the UK had an alder top. I suspect that it has since been replaced with something a bit more hardwearing! I am guessing Steve’s little shop won’t allow dancing on the counter so I am sure it will be fine.

The OP should have come to you in the first instance....

I bet you are chuffed with that? What does the shop sell?

Good point: if the OP can check for the remnants of huge sticky buds that would confirm Horse Chestnut.

Ash isn't it? As soon as those leaves open properly it will be as clear as day.

Don’t worry about putting chemicals on the boards. Just don’t lose track of your stock too much. Ideally have a decent turnover of stock - some timber like beech and elm are a bit more prone to woodworm so have a little check of your stock every couple of years. Active worm will be given away by little piles of dust on the boards below the infected one. Most species of larvae will give up once the timber dries.

Don’t most trees slow their rate of growth as they age? In which case it is likely to be older than your estimate.

Also does your machine have rollers in the planer bed? If so you need to check if these are disengaged, or stuck.

Do you lubricate the beds? Also is there a sawdust build-up somewhere which is stopping the feed rollers from pressing down on the boards? With it switched off try and use a lever like a piece of three by two and maybe a fulcrum to see if the springs on the feed rollers are working properly. If one or both of the feed rollers are sticking this will cause exactly the symptoms you describe.

I very rarely get offered robinia. I guess it is not a forest tree in the uk?

Did it used to work well? And is the timber feeding through well just not being planed? Or is it getting stuck?

Ah, well I have only milled one robinia log. Next time I do I will have to note how similar it is to chestnut. Thank you for enlightening me.

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Well, now I am intrigued! I would have bet my mum's life on that being sweet chestnut. Good job she isn't here... So what is it?

That is lovely. Sweet chestnut is such a good timber, and I love what you have done with it.

This is the new little shed I am putting up at work to house the inverter so we can run the sawmill on mains instead of the generator. It is lawson cypress windblow from a shelter bed planted when the A40 was built nearish a stately home. I made the head woodsman very happy by saying I would actually pay good money for what he thought was just rubbish timber not even worthy of firewood! It is lovely timber actually - dries super quick, really stable and strong and durable. What more could you want? First photo is the ground prepped with four holes. Second photo is the posts and basic structure. Purlins to go on tomorrow, then roofing sheets; floorboards after that, and then cladding next week. All will be lawson cypress. It is a very crude but quick and durable build. No concrete pad, just a bit of postcrete and of course relying on the larger structure next door for a lot of strength and stability.

Here is a picture of the porch built with the redwood. I ended up putting a dye on it because when I treated it all with a clear wood preserver (which was probably unnecessary) it effectively dyed it but unevenly. So to make it look nice again I dyed the whole lot!

Mainly 25mm 32mm 38mm and 50mm. Uses are many and varied. Difficult to pin it down as I have many hundreds of customers, some I see regularly, many only once. Often it is people simply doing some work in their house. Sometimes it is someone making furniture. Sycamore is particularly well suited to making kitchen cupboards (but kitchens these days all seem to be painted) and to other kitchen items like chopping boards. It is s also ideal for tables and chairs , but no-one bothers with chairs any more - they put up with benches.

Totally agree about satisfaction in using timber you have milled. I have recently milled several cubic metres of coastal redwood and poplar for projects at my house. Also milled lots of lawson cypress recently (or white cedar to customers) for various projects. I just wish I had more time to progress the projects. Running a small business and a small family gives little real free time.

All will be converted to boards of varying thickness. This will push me into milling all my yew as I already had half a lorry load in the yard waiting.

Not of the tree sorry. I will take a pic of the logs, but I only saw it after it had been felled.