Squaredy

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.

I think Andy has it spot on here. The vent is for disused flues, which often get damp over time. Any flue in use even if not daily will get a lot of drying and heat and therefore damp is not usually a problem.

Surely the purpose of the vent is to reduce the likelihood of damp in an unused flue by creating a through draft. If the flue is in use the problem is solved naturally.

Bought a single yew tree today from a local tree surgeon. I estimate around 6 cubic metres of good milling logs, and I paid £750 for it delivered to my yard. I am happy as they are good logs and I will eventually make money from them, though it may take 6 or 7 years to finally sell the last piece. And the tree surgeon is happy as he made a bit from the logs (not a lot as he had to hire a telehandler and trailer for the day). And the customer is happy as the tree was professionally removed. Personally I wonder why you would want to remove such a large yew, but there was no TPO so it was their tree to remove; and maybe it was too big to be close to a house.

Is it possible for you to tell how much heat ends up in your loft void? Assuming you have a loft void as it looks like the loft is converted. What I am thinking is that the top of the original brick chimney is inside your roof void somewhere and presumably loads of heated air is coming out effectively doing a brilliant job of cooling your fire and living room! If the register plate were fitted properly this would not be an issue of course.

I also run an electric mill where there is no three phase. Currently I use a generator, but shortly I will be changing to an inverter.

I have just finished my new porch in coastal redwood too. Finishing was a ball ache as the preservative treatment I put on actually ended up dying the wood, so to even it up I had to put a dye on the whole lot! I have no advice on finishing except to test it first on scrap which I am sure you know. If you want to keep it light colour I guess a water based floor varnish might be good?

I think what difflock says is right. The video seems to show a very hot fire burning well. I suspect the chimney is not lined and that most of the heat is disappearing up it. Which is the same problem with an open fire. And if it is a large draughty room that won’t help. Did you have the stove installed or was it in the house when you moved in?

Do you mean a machine to move logs around the yard? In which case what is your yard like - is it flat? Is it concrete/tarmac? What is the maximum length and diameter log?

Very nice. Did you plane the edges or just the face?

Well that sounds like a good result if you ask me. I have had boots wear out from new in less time! What I was researching is how good CT1 sealant stuff is. Were you impressed?

And four years later, how are the boots holding up?