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Squaredy

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  1. I think that may work. But you need braces. And the worst case scenario is that they may twist as they dry.
  2. 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.
  3. Self sown from leylandii? Interesting; I didn’t know it was possible.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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?
  11. Now if they are sausage dogs some lolipop sticks stuck in the ground should be plenty high enough...
  12. Actually that is a lot more useful than most of the ‘handy devices’ my elderly mother buys from those catalogues aimed at people with more money than sense.
  13. My wife says this is Donald trump in profile - spitting image style….
  14. If you need cladding you will have a lot of waste, as the sapwood is really no good for this. Find a couple of good leylandii stems for cladding, and mill the oak for beams or something else where a bit of sapwood doesn’t matter.
  15. Careful guys, at this rate @Steve Bullman will wonder about changing to subscription only!
  16. Generally only use the bandsaw, except if we have monster logs and then we use chainsaw. We always use the same chain on the chainsaw mill, I forget what it is off the top of my head - I will check later.
  17. I rarely mill pine but when I do it is always difficult. That might be because they are large knotty logs, but we always find the band mill blades wander badly. Give me nice easy oak any day.
  18. I love the fact you use invisible chainsaw operators. I bet they are handy at Halloween?
  19. Bear in mind that you are re-sawing (presumably) fully dried boards. This is very different to milling logs which will never be dry. I am not saying don’t try it, but the timber will be inherently much harder than if it were a log, so more likely the blade will wander.
  20. Re-sawing boards is very difficult to achieve without very large kit. I agree a larger thicknesser is the way to go. And a suitable dust extractor of course. Or take them to someone else who does have such kit.
  21. If it is any help I would charge them at £10 each roughly. Assuming I had 3m logs of course. If you have longer logs I would charge for the length the logs are. If you are just trying to cover your time however you might want to price them differently.
  22. Goodness me. I bet you are glad you heat your house with wood not gas! We have a 15kw boiler stove with 8 radiators, but usually only have it lit from about 3 or 4 in the afternoon until about eleven (though of course it stays warm to some extent until much later). We are burning mainly three year air dried oak currently and get through about three quarters of a cubic metre per week. Weight would be about 180kg.
  23. Certainly looks like freshly milled cherry. Look at the bark - cherry bark is very easy to identify.
  24. I am no expert either, but I have always understood that over 5 cube felling per quarter a felling licence is required. Only exception I am aware of is stems under 8cm, possibly gardens, and trees posing an immediate danger. Being potentially poisonous to pets is irrelevant as far as the law is concerned. FC will soon tell you or the owner if you ask them.

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