Squaredy

Hi Eriknick, I am afraid I have no knowledge of Sandalwood so I don't think I will be able to help you. However we do have a very active member on here who knows everything about everything as he watches lots of Youtube videos so I am sure he will tell you everything you need to know.

Did you write the instructions for my new CCTV system I bought off eBay a while back?

Try TRADA.

I guess you would have to say what type of item you are thinking of buying.

That is a very mixed bag you have there with clearly some good timber, but maybe also some not so good. It is very difficult to judge the volume from the photos but it looks way too much for say a large Transit, it looks as if it would need a flatbed lorry to remove it all. I would forget about trying to sell it to individuals, as they will want to pick out boards that suit there need (who can blame them). Even local joiners etc will be just a waste of your time as they would not want such a mixed lot, even for a very low price - it would take up a huge space in a workshop and take many years to use. Timber merchants will not want it as they want specific species and sizes etc and it would not be worth paying someone to spend a week or more trying to sort it out - in any case not many people would be able to be certain about what species they all are. I think your best bet is to either enter it as small lots in an appropriate auction or offer it to your nearest wood recycling project. Entering it in an auction will mean spending a lot of time sorting through it and deciding what goes in each lot, and you may have to wait a while as you need an auctioneer who holds regular timber sales so you may have to wait until their next sale. I know of such an auctioneer in my area but there may not be one near you. Your local wood recycling project will be delighted with it and may pay a reasonable price for it. This is by far your easiest option as they should simply come and take the lot. You should expect to receive a low but fair price from them - maybe £150 per 3.5T van load. If you advertise and try and deal with multiple buyers you will find it will take a very long time to shift it all as timber buyers are generally very specific and sorting through quantities of timber is very time consuming. Good luck with the sale - please let us know what happens.

Looks like rippled Sycamore or Maple to me. If that could be incorporated into something like a sideboard it would be sort of cool. Also sort of ridiculous - imagine going to your furniture maker and asking him or her to incorporate this board into a piece....but please do not cut it, router it, sand it or put any finish on it. And what about the power lead? Much as I love the look and feel of wood maybe some things are best left uninvented? Is there such a word?

All wood rotting funghi need moisture to survive. If you now let it fully dry the funghi will disappear. The light wood will be weak but may still have lots of uses. Parts of it may be ideal for shelves etc, but parts may be too far gone. Test it by digging your nail it - this will show you how soft and weak it is.

This seems to have become the "Items made from Elm" thread.... So here are some Elm boats... Amazing that they can still find good clean straight grained Elm to make them. Every boat in this photo is made of Elm.

Are you after a buyer for the main trunk and branches? If so where is it? Not a burry trunk but I am sure someone will take it off your hands....!!

They may in time. All the ones in the UK are babies still. Outside of their natural range the UK is their most favoured habitat.

Ah thanks, now I see how you can move it to site. As a lowly sawyer rather than an exulted tree surgeon I couldn’t afford kit like that. ?. If you were in my area I would ask if you wanted to use your nice kit to flog me logs for milling but as you are about four hours from me that may not work!

They are guilty of a very quick bit of google research or maybe taking too much notice of a bit of heresay and thinking that ash firewood is like gold. Maybe the seller looked at some other eBay listings and just assumed that every item for sale finds a buyer at the advertised price. There are a lot of muppets out there.

That is a useful looking machine. Is it a full size telehandler? Just being nosey how do you get it to the worksite, surely it is way too heavy to tow on a trailer?

Sounds like I have cooked mine then. As you say it doesn't seem to achieve much anyway - when mine did work I wasn't aware of any noticeable improvement in hot air getting into the room.

Interesting but is it practical? My fan only worked for a year or so - big fat waste of £60 that turned out to be. Looking at other AT threads they seem very flaky. Is that the case with all these electricity from heat devices?

Street trees are usually topped on a regular basis and can be very attractive managed this way. I wouldn't worry they will be fine as Steve said. This is the right time of year to do the work as they will re-grow spectacularly in the Spring, and in a year or two you will be amazed how healthy and normal they look. Sycamore in particular will re-grow well.

Yeah it is worth bearing in mind an old telehandler is a big heavy machine. I have an old Sanderson 2 wheel drive telehandler and it does the job well, but it is 6 tons unladen. That is a lot of moving parts to maintain, and the four wheel drive ones have even more moving parts.

Looking forward to work tomorrow, but I have only been off two days so I went in on Thursday and Friday. I don't cut trees down though....I cut them up.....

Yes certainly Magnificent, and a magnificent finger also. Is it a Lime?

Maybe he is burning unseasoned wood? Sounds a crazy amount of firewood for even a large uninsulated bungalow never mind one that should be up to modern insulation standards! Or is he a fresh air freak and leaves all the windows and doors open all day and night?

If you are mainly concerned with avoiding any cracks appearing exclude the heart. If you are mainly concerned with keeping the beams straight keep the beams as close as possible to the shape of the log. You do not mention how long the beams will be. Any long beams are likely to end up less than straight. The design may allow you to correct such errors, but if a curved beam would be a problem I would say if possible keep the beam as close as possible to being just a squared off log. In general people do not worry about heart with this sort of project - Douglas Fir is pretty well behaved and to try to exclude the heart will be very wasteful.

If you are wanting long term cover this is permanent health insurance not accident insurance. Cost is higher but it covers you for illness and accident and could pay out until you retire. Apologies if you knew that!

I think Doobin has advised you well. I would just add to what he said my main experience when I first installed motion detect cameras is that they work OK during the day, but at night they pretty much record all night long. If you set them to be not very sensitive they will miss everything, if you set the sensitivity in the middle somewhere they will detect every little movement. Once the cameras are installed spiders will set up webs by every one which they will re-make each night and these will move constantly in the breeze if outdoors which is enough to set off the recording or notification. I recently invested in much better cameras which have a PIR sensor instead of just a digital and they only go off a couple of times a night making them much more useful. If you wake up every time they go off though to view the footage you might find you have a lot of disturbed nights, even with the PIR ones due to vegetation moving, spiders, bats, etc.

I had a chat on phone with the seller but I was too late. All spoken for I am told. I am still in the market for a batch or two of dried timber if anyone needs to shift some. Oak, Sycamore, Sweet Chestnut, Lime, Beech, Even Birch And Alder. Must be wholesale price so between £350 and £500 per cubic metre. Need some Christmas cash anyone?

Got a use for the timber? I would be interested if you can deliver to me....