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It is certainly nicely rippled. Is it Sycamore?

I am actually a Brexiteer, but I do recognise that it has caused some increased costs. When you move house it costs a lot of money, but we still do move house when our existing house is no longer suitable for our needs...

And that is the risk - if our pay rises do not keep pace with inflation we lose out. To be fair we have had low inflation for most of the last thirty years and wage rises have in most sectors far outstripped inflation - now the reverse is likely to happen. Pensioners will be fine - they really will get a rise the same as inflation (well the state element anyway).

I explained to the original poster what inflation is not what causes it. I also explained the consequences of inflation, as clearly Mr Eggs wanted to understand that better. Printing extra money (Quantitative Easing) is not far short of legalised theft, and I agree is likely to create inflation eventually. Also current inflation is caused my Brexit, the Ukraine war, and other factors.

Inflation is basically the cost of everything (or at least lots of things) going up. The problem with inflation is mainly 1) if your income does not also go up you will be able to buy less and 2) anyone with savings will find the value of those savings drops (unless the savings are going up at least as much as inflation which is unlikely). BUT like everything "Tis an ill wind that blows no-one any good". So for people with debt inflation can be a very good thing. In fact in the long run it can be marvellous as the value of that debt reduces. Best example is if you bought a house and borrowed say £50,000; ten years later that debt has not increased with inflation - it will be £50,000 less the repayments. But your income will have risen (hopefully) due to wages keeping pace with inflation; so in real terms the £50,000 debt will be much less significant for you. So inflation is very bad for people on fixed incomes. Inflation is very good for governments who have just borrowed vast amounts of money to fund pandemic costs.

Assuming you mean uses not users then you have loads of options. The horse chestnut is of little use, but everything else you have is very usable. Oak and Sweet Chestnut are both durable outdoor timbers. Chestnut is superior generally though it depends on the use. Oak is stronger and tougher but usually has more faults. Chestnut as fencing needs no treatment. Cypress is an excellent timber (though often very knotty) and is durable and stable. Good for cladding, construction, almost anything where you don't need great strength or hardness. Ideal for lawn edging and raised beds. Beech is good for indoor use - no durability outdoors, but ideal for furniture, shelving etc. Similar comments regarding Sycamore, but more stable than beech and easier to work. Larch also an excellent timber for multiple uses - fairly durable so good for cladding, construction, but also good for indoor projects. Finally poplar is a very under-rated timber - not too durable - though I have heard it has been used successfully for cladding. But it is certainly very attractive for indoor cladding, kitchen cupboards and many other uses. Quite a soft timber, not the easiest to work but very beautiful grain (in a subtle way). Hope this helps.

Well worth milling for your own use, and worth a bit to the end user, but very time consuming to mill, dry, and then find lots of customers. Value as it is about £60 per ton. I pay more than that but unless you are near me and can deliver it won’t work.

Now this could be a great new thread…. Work out the garage location…. Who will start us off….?

Sounds very sensible - tea just goes stale if made up and stored. You guys must be so jealous of us fixed types who have a staff restaurant (well a kitchen and a few nice chairs) and a kettle and fridge….

Well if the average wage was £300 per year then I think we are better off now!

It is a 2 wheel drive Teleporter 227 very much like this:

Ah thanks for that, I was not aware of a link to David brown tractors, I will investigate. It is actually a stub axle that has snapped not a half shaft - my mistake. The engine and gearbox I am told is ford and has never given any trouble, but so far we have failed to match up this axle.

I tend to agree with everything you say, and none of my kit that works well is cheap. What has prompted me to look is that my Sanderson has just snapped a half shaft and it looks as if I won’t find a replacement. I very much believe in getting the best kit possible, but sometimes one gets tempted by a bargain.

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As you rightly say if you cut it to the customer's exact list you could end up with a lot of waste. With the green oak and elm I suggest working out what log lengths you will use, and then simply charging them for that full length. In other words, if they need pieces at 2.4m, 2.7m and 3.2m calculate the price for each one at 3.2m. Personally I would charge £30 per cubic foot for regular green oak and £35 for elm. If the customer demands a high grade or no sapwood or whatever I would charge more. Seasoned beech you simply have to price up every board they want and then if you are machining charge extra for your time. The risk here is if you choose the boards - might be better if you let the customer do this.

I m not sure you can stop them drying, and therefore splitting to be honest. Has anyone succeeded in getting large cookies to dry without splits? I haven't.

There certainly are sawmills that take Beech, but of course like other species they want it to arrive by the lorry load, and need it to be forest grown. Hence a few decent stems that add up to half a load with poor access are sadly worth nothing.

Beech is worth maybe the same as Ash - perhaps £25 per cubic foot ( once milled and thoroughly dried) but only for fairly clean boards of course. So in theory there may be a fair value there in timber. But of course what you have to assess is how long it will take to find enough customers to make it worth your while. Unless you have markets for the timber it will take years, and of course that is after the years of drying.

I would certainly board up the fireplace. It looks like that would be very easy and then the tenant need not even know it is there. Make sure there are some vents in the board to try and keep a bit of ventilation going. I think it is very wise to not allow the tenant access to it - quite a can of worms potentially...

Again I don't see how briquettes will be an option if they are to be sold to the public. As soon as man made boards are involved burning in a logburner, firepit etc is not an option. Maybe they could be burned in an industrial setting for heat or electricity generation, as long as the plant can cope with the resulting pollutants.

Maybe others on here will have greater knowledge of disposal than I, but as soon as the sawdust is derived from man made boards it will contain resin dust. MDF sawdust is well known as a carcinogen and I doubt will be ideal for composting responsibly. I would have thought the only real compliant route would be for it to be carted away by a licensed waste carrier for incineration at a local authority site. There must be many other businesses like yours which produce large volumes of mixed sawdust and shavings of course, so it might be worth speaking to some of them. On this site most people (myself included) only deal with pure wood dust and shavings from untreated logs.

I’m upset already. Unless you mean ditching the app (which I don’t use). Please don’t make us choose a new password every month and never use one we have used before! Or could it be the return of Vespasian….

I believe Black Poplar is regarded as a superior timber, so may well be worth milling. If it has burr or pippy knots it is worth milling whatever it is I would say!

I assume you mean a compliant solution for disposal? In which case perhaps you could specify what the sawdust comprises of? For instance is it only pure wood dust or is it also man made boards like MDF, plywood etc?

You certainly would not use it for fence posts, but I can see that as a trailer floor it would be good for probably at least five or six years even if neglected and probably much longer if looked after. And of course a big advantage is it would be really light, so more scope for greater load.