Squaredy

Yeah agree with the other comments - good log to start on. Should be some nice timber in there, and hopefully nothing else, as it is clearly growing in a wood. Also good straight piece, but as has been said think about the length - if you don’t need it long mill it in sections - it will be so much easier to handle.

If you can find a small sawmill nearby they might be willing to mill it for you if you can get it to them. You will have to convince them it has no metal in it of course. And if it is not forest grown then who knows what it may contain. Also you will have to cross cut it into two pieces. But then I would suggest doing that anyway - rather unlikely to find a buyer who needs twenty foot slabs. The mill then might just charge you by the hour; or my local mill charge by the cubic foot. Research needed in your area.

I bought the Norwood HD36 new in about 2016. With hindsight I should have saved up just a bit more for a manual Woodmizer (which is what I have now). The Norwood is so badly designed and built it is amazing it is still being sold. Also as you say the ceramic guide rollers were dreadful. Parts were incredibly expensive, so I would always try and source them other than from the agent. The ceramic guide rollers were about £600 just for one set for example, which you might knacker in a week. And don’t get me started on the assembly - 170 pages of instructions if I remember rightly - and not all of that was accurate. Woodmizer on the other hand was nearly fully assembled, and the quality is far superior. Parts are also very reasonable - little point in shopping around as they are already not bad. So far (one year on) no complaints about the Woodmizer - oh except the little spring which enables the setworks computer to detect up and down movement of the saw head. But so far the dealer has sent me new ones very quickly under warranty and been very helpful about suggesting ways to try and stop the part failing. Chalk and cheese as far as I am concerned. And yet the difference in price was only about ten percent. £7150 vs £8000 or thereabouts. I then later added the setworks computer and debarker to the Woodmizer. Actually I am not comparing like with like as the Norwood was Petrol powered but the Woodmizer is electric.

Incredible the things they can deduce these days with modern forensics…..!

The images are also missing….

There is a lunge thread..:..?????!!!!!!

For craft folk spalting is highly desirable. I would mill a range of thickness boards if you can. Pretty stable as it dries, and very quick drying. I find 32mm boards are air dry in two or three months max in summer.

Any of the limes are good timber - small leaved, large leaved and common. Craft people love it and always find it difficult to find. It does need to be milled and dried fairly soon after felling - not years later like you might with oak.

Yes that is what the yanks call it. And linden.

Don’t bother burning lime, sell the best bits to sawmills. Always good demand for lime. I buy poplar as well, but not willow.

And I would suggest selling by the ton is easiest. Have you ever tried to measure firewood grade log stacks? If you do you are guaranteed to create arguments with your customers! Let the timber lorry weigh it and no one can argue.

I ask because you should ask a higher price for sawlogs. But this also depends on the quality of course, and you would need to separate them out. Chestnut sawlogs for instance could be worth £130 per ton if top quality. And it depends on getting a full load. You won’t have much luck trying to sell a few tons of sawlogs.

Give us an idea of the logs you are selling. Are we talking about firewood grade (up to a foot or so diameter) or sawlogs for milling?

Nice truck!

Def put on marketplace or similar. In a salvage yard they would be several hundred squids. Bit Rusty, but far superior to their modern equivalent sadly!

Do the Swedes say you are a typical Brit as you like to talk about the weather?!

I'm not sure we helped Mr Eggs catch up on his sleep much!

Yes, that was a very good and thought-provoking read.

I visited their site about ten years ago when I was in the market for a 4x4 truck. Lots of choice, but very much a case of you have to know what you are doing. They mainly sell abroad and once a piece of machinery is sold I suspect they wouldn’t want to know if it then fails, or has parts missing. I eventually bought privately as I was able to have a good test drive. For what I paid I would have been in their bottom range of condition vehicles which had all sorts of potential problems. But I am sure there are bargains to be had - if you want something no-one else wants! It is quite an eye opener of where some of our taxpayers money goes.

I was just wondering if the branch that the woodpeckers are going for was dead anyway. Woodpeckers and the grubs they enjoy will much prefer dead wood. But what Dutch elm disease does is it shuts off the nutrients to the tree at or below ground level usually. If it has got DED it will be dead in a few years then the decision will be easier.

Has it got Dutch elm disease yet?

Very nice. Red oak?

Yes I was, back now. Sorry for the thread de-rail everybody.

Well yes but it is more than that. Food, drinks and many other items double UK price. Even in a supermarket things like packs of ordinary biccies start at $3. I can get cheap biccies in the uk for under a pound. Their petrol is still half our price and I am guessing energy prices also much lower.

Yeah my wife thinks they were from sports direct! Tell you what, anyone who thinks the UK is pricey should head to the USA. Haven’t been for fifteen years but I always used to find everything really cheap in the states. Not any more!