Squaredy
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Any idea which Cedar these are? If you have a look there are a number of pics showing the foliage. Anybody narrow it down a bit? Maybe they are not a Cedar at all but one of the other exotic conifers?
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£130 for cubic metre kiln dried dense hardwoood and £100 for the better softwoods. Collection only no delivery.
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Advice Wanted - Best Timber for Building Windows
Squaredy replied to Bunzena's topic in General chat
Accoya is indeed one of the best options. You should be able to purchase it for around the same price as Oak. So not cheap, but most of the cost of bespoke wooden windows is the labour so if you have the ability to do the joinery yourself this should work out pretty economical. Otherwise if you really want to save cash good clean Larch or Douglas Fir - but you may have to buy it unseasoned and dry it yourself, as very few people dry these timbers in the UK. Your other problem with UK grown timber is finding stock that is really clean - you don't want to be battling knots at every step. Also not as stable as Accoya. -
It would be a huge effort and could possibly yield some interesting stock. But mainly I would expect short grain, rot, worm damage, bark inclusions, bad shake. etc. You would probably be milling for firewood. Trees like that should be left for their habitat and aesthetic value - no good as timber.
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Maybe post a photo of the actual tree. If it is anything like the two you pictured it will not be much good for milling.
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I agree with most of what Big J has advised you. I would just add that you should do the deal once the logs are down and you can look at each end. And look out for hollow knots, which often lead to rot below the knot, which can travel some way down the log.
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I believe 112 is indeed an alternative emergency contact number in the UK. Back in the 90s I remember it being a huge problem for the emergency switchboards that they got thousands of accidental calls every day - in the days before screens automatically locked themselves - many were to 112 and the rest 999. And the worst thing is that the operator could not just hang up, in case it was someone incapacitated in some way. They had to listen for a good while in case someone managed to communicate that there is a real emergency.
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In much the same way as 999 will. Or have I missed something?
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Would it be worth investing in a nice mobile sawmill? I am sure you have already thought of that!
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What it probably tells you is the seller has no idea what he is selling.
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Waney edge cladding like children's clothes is classed as an essential everyday item. Square edge cladding on the other hand is considered a luxury good. Or maybe more likely Aaron is simply not VAT registered.
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Large trunk of Douglas for ready to be milled Liverpool
Squaredy replied to Carl123's topic in Milling Forum
Yeah I think it is Cypress or W R Cedar. Has its uses but I doubt anyone will offer to remove it free. Value around £25 per ton max. -
Well personally I mill Ash to the following thicknesses in mm 19 25 32 38 50 63 75 and 100. But I have spent many years finding customers and outlets. I suggest if you do not know who the customers will be maybe 32 and 50 or 55 mm are very useful thicknesses.
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I guessed the diameter was the thick end so I made it about 118 hft. 4 tons.
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Well I have customers who buy dried boards for furniture and joinery etc. It would yield about 100 cubic feet sawn timber so this would eventually return around £2000.
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I am a small sawmill so I would mill it and sell the timber in a couple of years when it is dried.
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Little bit far for me....from South Wales!
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Chop that lovely ash log up for firewood? That will be a crime! Where are you based?
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If you can find someone willing to buy such logs they do have a value but they will have to be clean and straight with minimal shake and few knots especially dead knots. The ash you mention I would pay around £450 for, but only if it is good and you can deliver or make up to a timber lorry load. I regularly buy from tree surgeons and I try to always pay well to make it worth their while. It is true the value will be higher as firewood but this would mean cutting, splitting drying and delivering to multiple customers. Does £450 sound attractive to you?
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I guess this makes sense about the sequoia. It is a very light wood when dry - only about 300 kilos per cubic metre. Whereas when freshly felled it only just floated which indicates a weight of about 900 kilos per cubic metre. Hence most of the weight was water. This is why when buying logs it is so much better to do so by the ton.
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Ah, I just realised;- did you mean a firewood drying kiln? 60 degrees sounds a bit high for seasoning wood. Not necessarily a firewood kiln, though this might be more likely to find. A timber drying kiln will also go up to 60+ degrees, and a timber drying kiln will be able to control the humidity to perhaps reduce damage to the timber.
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It’s not the deer you need to protect the trees from...
Squaredy replied to Richard Johnsn's topic in AA
Actually no I had seen the picture....but bad tree surgery is a tiny problem compared to grey squirrels..... -
It’s not the deer you need to protect the trees from...
Squaredy replied to Richard Johnsn's topic in AA
Round my way it is the grey squirrels are the problem. I have been helping (in the sense I let them store materials in my yard) the Woodland Trust plant trees in south east Wales - 54000 of them. Their head guy In the area told me squirrels will see to most of them. They are protected by 1.8m tree guards but nothing will save them from the greys. -
Best way is to find someone with a large timber kiln and have the entire lot disinfected. It may cause some cracking but not a lot if the timber is all dry. It just needs cooking at 60 degrees C for 15 hours or so.
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Oh yes I had forgotten about the Jetmaster. I will be opening up an open fire in my lounge and I am looking into the options for an open fire which is a bit more efficient.
