Squaredy
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Got it all connected temporarily yesterday and pressed the button. It ran sweet as a nut. Thank goodness. I never doubted that it had enough power (well not much anyway) but there are many other complications with a fake three phase system such as I now have. I won’t go into detail here but the generator produced actual three phase electricity which is what all the machines are designed for. The inverter produces a sort of near simulation of three phase electricity which will not work for everything. Anyway, we will give it a week or two and if it is all looking good we will properly wire it all in.
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Yes that may be a possibility, but he would miss out on having his work assessed during the course, and being coached on exam technique.
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Band blades for Norwood / Lumbermate LM29 ???
Squaredy replied to Whoppa Choppa's topic in Milling Forum
Have you considered offering a sharpening service? Very few places currently do this properly, especially now Stephen Cull has retired. I guess you would have to clean and set them also. -
Yeah we have spoken to the school and they use WJEC. They clearly will help us, but I am attracted to an online course as I know this will work well for my son. A grand spent on a GCSE is fine by me. I place a high value on education.
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I haven’t managed to find one sadly.
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Band blades for Norwood / Lumbermate LM29 ???
Squaredy replied to Whoppa Choppa's topic in Milling Forum
I think a lot depends on how much milling you do. If you do it only occasionally the easiest solution might be just to throw the blades away when blunt. Getting blades properly sharpened is a challenge. -
My son has just chosen his GCSE options and although initially thought he could do history, has now been told that to do history he must give up Latin and Computer Science (both of which he really wants to continue). So instead he is not doing history, and I have told him he can do it online. He is highly motivated and has a deep love of history so I have no doubt he will do well. Can anyone recommend a good online provider? He is very good at researching history in books and YouTube etc, but of course he will need to learn exam technique and how to phrase his answers and essays in an appropriate way. Any suggestions very welcome.
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And finally I have connected my inverter to the new mains grid connection. Rome wasn't built in a day, remember. The last major step is to connect the Woodmizer to the inverter and see if it will run it! Hope to do a temporary job on this tomorrow and if it all runs good I will do it properly next week.
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Certainly growth rate will affect timber density. Usually leylandii grows incredibly fast. But, there are many varieties of dwarf conifer which may or may not be a type of leylandii, so maybe.
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Ideally to kiln dry timber for interior joinery you air dry it fist, and then finish it off in a kiln. Now it is possible to kiln dry straight from freshly sawn, and a lot depends on the species and thickness. I have never tried it with beech, but maybe some Arbtalkers have. The risk is if you dry it slowly (say three months) the cost of kilning may be so high it is just not worth it. Or if you try and dry it quickly the timber will distort and crack badly and even honeycomb inside. Softwoods usually are a lot easier to dry quickly. The denser really hard timbers (especially oak) take a long time to dry.
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Good to see some pictures. Personally I price by the cubic foot, but many people do not. My prices vary from about £30 per cubic foot to £60 plus VAT. You are correct about value being higher if dried. Or to be more accurate you will struggle to find buyers if not dried. All the slabs I sell are dry. After all, not many people want to buy a slab for use in two or three years. Also if they know what they are doing they will understand that a slab may well look lovely when freshly cut, but when dry it is likely to cup, distort and split, so may end up as firewood. So my advice (as someone who has sold many slabs over many years) is put them to dry thoroughly and then advertise them with good photos. Ideally when they are dry get at least one side planed or sanded to show the grain and clean it; otherwise they just look mucky and you can't see the grain.
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Why don’t you share some photos so people can see what you have?
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Large section of oak to mill (any one interested)
Squaredy replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Panther Mill UK
I don’t wish to seem negative, but: 1) the oak in the photos has not been standing dead 15 years. Maybe one year. 2) It is not normal oak by the looks of it. Possibly turkey oak or red oak. 3) The value if it were a good oak stem would be minimal. Especially as it will have to be milled in situ. If I am right about the species, value is even lower. 4) I think most people capable of removing it would want paying for a day’s labour at least. -
I have used it just once. Most of the paperwork hassle was avoided by using timber hauliers who were used to dealing with FC. I did still have to prove I had £10 million public liability insurance. As for prices, the FC do publish average prices once a year I believe, so this might give you an idea.
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Thank you Doobin I am sure you are right. The only reason I am tempted to do a swap is the fact that the one I have on loan is clearly a very sound machine. I am always wary of buying old cheap kit as it usually ends in tears... But I will probably end up buying a low mast one as you say.
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I have this Lansing sideloader forklift on approval, and it is a great machine except it has a mast which sticks up way too far for me. I need the type of mast which you can use in restricted height areas like the second photo. With the one I have, at the same forks height the mast sticks up about three metres higher! It is a long shot I know but do any of you fellow arbtalkers know of someone who has a duplex mast from one of these machines they are selling? These Lansing sideloaders are quite common (common for sideloaders that is) and to my amazement I discovered they are made in Wales.
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Do you think them being illegal stops people getting them? And if you accept that supply of drugs such as you mention still happens on a vast scale despite being illegal, are you happy that all this business is managed (quite literally) by criminal gangs?
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It is called ring shake. Not common in oak thankfully. Can be a huge problem in sweet chestnut. Also had it in elm. It is not fully understood what causes it, but in chestnut is much more prevalent in older trees.
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Interesting. Sadly the pieces I have which have confounded my expectations of fast rotting are of an unknown variety. I mean I don’t know the exact species, not that they are new to science.
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I have always considered pine timber to be non-durable. I have noticed however a number of instances where it resists rot surprisingly well. I am not talking about pitch pine or oregon pine (Douglas Fir) but the types of pines we get here in the UK - I guess: scots, lodgepole, ponderosa, radiata. Can anyone guide me - are certain ones known to be durable? Or are they all more durable than I imagined? I would have said they are not much better than spruce, but I am thinking they are actually closer to larch. What do you think fellow Arbtalkers?
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If leylandii (or indeed any cypress) is quite heavy it is still wet.
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And is this a school run by the LEA or is it an academy school? I think it is about time local councils stopped trying to run schools. But I don’t know if academies are any better.
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I guess most parents have very little idea of just how bad things have become. No wonder home schooling and independent school numbers have gone up. I would suggest it isn’t even that difficult to solve the problem either. Just give each school the ultimate ability to exclude a pupil if they feel it necessary. It must be soul destroying to kick out an unruly child only to find them re-instated by the local authority the following week.
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So the implicit message from the school to the children is that bad behaviour will go unpunished. The children can literally do what they like, and unless the police get involved there are no consequences. All I can say is thank goodness my kids are not in that school.
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Well, Trigger Andy has summed it up quite well. By the time you have faffed about understanding the customers needs, explained about what happens if you hit metal and then get your head round how you will actually do the resawing; you often find that is an hour or two gone. The customer sees that the cutting took ten minutes so expects a bill for two and six. Plus, in any case my kit is set up for sawing logs, which are wet and easy to mill. A board or two that a customer has been drying for years and years and is now dry, twisted and super hard is the last thing I want to mill.
