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This is a genuine advert on a massive billboard I spotted in New York today.
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Weight estimation for level load of Leylandii wood in single cab pickup
Squaredy replied to briscoe's topic in General chat
About 550 kg. -
To be fair we did walk up the last six flights as the queue for the elevator was half an hour! Very impressive lifts - ground floor to eightieth in less time than some uk lifts do four floors.
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I was on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building today on the observation deck, and in the open air there are about 240 halogen heaters on full blast! I guess the USA still gets cheap electricity then! Quite why they feel people need to be warmed when outdoors and high up I can’t quite fathom.
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Just as I said…..hideous!
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Yeah fair enough, you clearly know what you are up to. I would not want a Trekkasaw personally because of the wide blades. Cost a fortune to buy and sharpen and really no better than a narrow band like on a Woodmizer. A swing mill is a good bet, but of course if you mainly want slabs you are back to chainsaw milling. The Pieterson has a neat trick to produce a double width board, but only about twenty inches I believe. I used to run a Lucas mill, but eventually bought a band mill.
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Absolutely worthless not worth milling; give it all to me instead.
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Brrrrr!
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The only problem with this is calculating the volume. Every stack of logs will have different factors meaning ten different people will come to ten different answers as to what the stack is worth. Whereas weight is independently measured by an accurate means (timber lorry). If you feel you would lose out because the stack is partly dried you will have to price it accordingly....which I know also leads to endless discussions about how much it has dried! I don't buy firewood any more, but when I buy sawlogs I make sure I know by which measure I am going to be charged - usually weight.
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What make/type of gloves do you wear ,working in your wood yard?
Squaredy replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Where can you actually buy these gloves? The link is to a website giving full details but no purchase option. -
What make/type of gloves do you wear ,working in your wood yard?
Squaredy replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
I have for years used these gloves from Screwfix or Toolstation and the great thing is they are washable. But they do quite quickly lose their grip - they are cheap and cheerful to be honest rather than good. Also no good in the wet. Criss Cross Gloves | Toolstation WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Clear PVC criss-cross pattern for extra grip. Conforms to EN420, EN388. The gloves with latex don't seem to wash successfully - anyone suggest good washable gloves? -
I never understand why people make a set of gates using tongue and groove or indeed anything similar. And of course if it is T&G it may even be kiln dried - hopeless for outdoors. If you want the privacy of no gaps then use square edge boards with about 5mm gap between each board. Ok it is a gap, but unless you are filming dodgy movies on your drive it is private enough surely?
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I think that may work. But you need braces. And the worst case scenario is that they may twist as they dry.
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I think you need to tell us what design you have in mind. If the boards are all butting up tight against each other you will have lots of problems. If you design it with gaps you might be able to do it successfully. Also it depends on how fussy you are if one or both of them twist a bit.
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Self sown from leylandii? Interesting; I didn’t know it was possible.
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It is worth remembering that one of the biggest competitors to firewood is natural gas and electricity. Both of these have increased in price by about 100% in the last year or so. If you supply a good firewood product why shouldn’t your price rise by 30 or 40% if need be? Demand for firewood is through the roof so I hardly think all our customers will go elsewhere.
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Good stem for something, but I do agree with Mr Spaceman not really the right quality for cladding. Ideal for beams, but a decent softwood like Larch, Douglas fir etc are much more suitable for cladding.
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Well that is good. I doubt the industry as a whole realise how good cypress are. I think it was such a bad decision to call western red cedar a cedar when it is in fact a cypress. Does anyone know what softwoods are favoured these days now that Larch is so problematic? Douglas Fir is great of course but what else do we plant with natural durability?
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And as they are infertile when they are eventually felled they will leave no trace. Unlike most conifers which will leave their children and grandchildren etc.
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Sadly whoever owns them will find that when they come to harvest/thin next they will have a rather low value. Yet the timber shares so many of the qualities of western red cedar which currently is worth more than oak.
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Impressive.
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I recently bought 26 tons or so of an unknown cypress species from a nearby estate. Planning on using much of it around my site for various construction purposes. The first log we milled though just reminds me of what fantastic timber it is. Beautiful, strong, durable, light and super quick to dry. Here is the stack of logs, some of which have been down for years, but still no sign of rot. And here are a few boards drying in my office/kiln. They are for use in a porch in January and I anticipate they will be dry from fresh sawn in about a week or so. We will see, as it is not much of a kiln! I love the stability and subtle growth rings. I will report back here when it is dry and we will see how much it has distorted in the process.
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I wonder if any tree surgeons include a clause in their quote to the effect that if any dog doo da is encountered there will be an extra charge? I certainly make it very clear to my customers that I will charge every minute of my time taken dealing with hidden nails when I am milling their logs! Is this what you guys do for this type of log? I am guessing it took you a while to properly clean and disinfect your gear after this little incident?
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Now if they are sausage dogs some lolipop sticks stuck in the ground should be plenty high enough...
