Squaredy
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If you could make it up to a lorry load and if you are OK with sending it down to South Wales I'd have them.
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Thank you for your input. As I look into it more it is pretty obvious the startup load is a very big issue. You don't run the sawmill at full speed for hours like you might a re-saw or a planer, it will be fired up for each cut and then stopped as the sawhead is returned. So it may be fired up a couple of hundred times a day. So my challenge is getting either the supplier of the inverter to agree it will cope, or the supplier of the sawmill to agree it will be OK. I think it probably will, but I can't spend £10,000 on kit just hoping it will be OK!
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Most of your customers will ask you to cut them in half....
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Fair play that is an awesome planter. Just seems a shame to put soil in it...
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Can you post a few photos of some of the logs? In truth bendy oak sawlogs have very little value. You have to think that if you do not buy them who will? Big sawmills will want mainly straight and knot free. Firewood processors will need small diameter and straightish. A few pics will help to value them though.
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Grade will make a huge difference. Absolute best grade sawlogs for milling could be worth £300 per ton. Worst grade firewood you may have to pay to have removed. If it is firewood is it processor size and fairly straight?
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Milled a very knarly Cherry yesterday. Was half expecting metal, but none thankfully. Really love the character of these slabs, and I might even keep some myself, not sure what for, maybe just to save them from being ruined with resin!
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Lots of good clean Ash coming to market of course Andy, and I am paying about £70 per ton delivered. That is for good clean straight forest grown with minimal end splitting and at least a foot diameter.
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Here are some photos of Alder we have milled in the last couple of weeks. Nothing big, but a fair bit of spalting as the logs have been in my yard for two years or so.
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I can remember soon after I had my logburner installed many years ago shivering in front of a miserable 'fire' consisting mainly of freshly cut Ash, and wondering why it was so poor. "After all", I thought, "Ash is OK to burn green". I never tried burning green ash again. Best firewood is dry firewood.
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I would not bother with joiners. They are very well supplied with Idigbo, American Ash/Oak, and a myriad of other high quality kiln dried timbers in multiple thicknesses and long lengths and for lowish prices. A unique furniture maker on the other hand might appreciate what you can offer, or indeed a multitude of amateurs making items for their own or their friends use.
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I suspect the wood is not dry enough. You can make it burn in a woodburner but an open fire may not have the right airflow. If you have a moisture meter try splitting one of the larger lumps and taking a reading from the middle. The other thing worth trying is using smaller pieces until a fire is established.
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Ideas for wood on nature reserve
Squaredy replied to Francesca Ecopark's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
A bit more detail would help such as pics of timber stacks, location, and whether there is good access for timber lorries. My guess is the wood is rather randomly dotted around the site with no decent extraction routes, and it sounds like it is generally low grade. In which case you will be unlikely to get any return and indeed unless you want lots of random people doing goodness knows what around the site you will have to pay a specialist professional to get rid of it. If you have a load of active volunteers you might be able to get them to process some of it, but it will involve a lot of careful management to keep them safe and possibly hiring in some expensive kit. There are Arbtalk members who could probably help process into firewood or mill into boards, but it will be a hefty outlay with no guarantee you will ever recoup the costs. -
Yes, I was approached years ago by the firm who now specialise in making replacement parts for the Minor Traveller to supply them Ash. Trouble is they wanted all blonde timber with no Olive, so I never supplied them.
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Yeah as long as you have the space to put them to dry properly then mill them. I know it is all about finding your customers but I find Ash very popular. I mainly sell thin stock I would say, 19mm, 25mm, 32mm and 38mm, but also some 50mm. What is it used for? Many specialised uses (yurts, cars, bows tool handles), but more commonly: shelves, kitchens, any indoor furniture, mirror frames.
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Woodmizer LT15 wide.
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Yeah well I am still looking into it, but I am pretty sure there is a soft start. Motors can draw as much as ten times the current if there is no soft start I believe.
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Not got the new mill yet Les, hope to order soon.
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I have spoken to two firms who supply inverters/converters. Drives Direct suggested a digital converter costing nearly £10,000. Transwave suggested a 30HP rotary converter which costs £3000 or so. This was the option I was going to go for but I needed to take advice as this does not produce true three phase like a genny would, and it seems that there might be much simpler and cheaper options as I already have two phases! Which rotary converter did you go for and how is it?
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It is still an option I believe to use a rotary converter - I could drive a 30HP one using the two phases which has a maximum single motor size of 15kw. This option though is also not true three phase but a bit of a fudge, so needs careful research to make sure it is compatible with the new mill.
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Yes, exactly.
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Yes 13kw @ 415 volts. My helpful professor is indeed suggesting using transformers to create the third phase. I appreciate your concerns, which is partly why I asked the question. I would rather raise potential problems before committing myself, and pass on these concerns to my guru.
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New mill would be 13KW.
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Yeah there are definitely two phases coming in each with its own 80amp fuse. And it has been confirmed to me by Western Power Distribution that there are two phases, Why they didn't put in all three when it was wired up in the fifties I have no idea, but as I drive around rural areas I do notice that two wires on poles is quite common, which would be two phases so I think it is not unusual.
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Yes it can be done with a phase converter, but it looks as if there might be an easier way.
