Forest2Furniture
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I tend to use thinner stickers (5/8") for Oak to let it dry slower but thats just me. As for drying time I was always taught a year per inch of thickness plus a year. I've just unsticked and square edged some 1"& 2" Oak boards I've had drying for 5yrs, the boards are lovely and flat.
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How long is the whole rig from hitch to tailboard, thinking of extending my mill.
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Thanks, she had a good innings at 95 but all the same you're never ready for it. As for the Ash, that's a great help, I know what offer to go in with. I know it's not great stuff but some of it's worth milling and the rest will do for burning. Thanks for your advice
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Got first refusal on this lot of Ash stems but what's a fair price to offer, 50-60 3m lengths 12"- 20" diameter. I've got an idea of what to offer but would appreciate a bit of guidance as since my mother died last week brain has temporary gone to mush! Also got first refusal on the Larch but not sure about that yet.
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Stood at the Major Oak Woodland Festival, Sherwood Forest at the weekend. Unusually high number of idiots in the visitors this year but as I was behind a fence well away from them if they looked to be about to ask something stupid I'd start the mill, hence was able to do a fair bit of milling Sycamore, Sweet Chestnut and some of the Sweet Chestnut burr I harvested earlier in the year.
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Big old Oak to be milled but what cuts???
Forest2Furniture replied to JoBuck's topic in Milling Forum
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Two good Oak trunks available near Warrington
Forest2Furniture replied to Squaredy's topic in Milling Forum
more like 120cm girth. I can see this being the oak tree equivalent of "I have a very valuable walnut tree" scenario -
One third down 2 to go! After youngest stepson offered to give me hand, we made a start tidying up the wood barn this weekend ready for new stock arriving. Clearly I didn't break him as he offered to come over next weekend too, he's starting to refer to it as his green-gym workout!
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I used to use electric when loading the mill but now I use a hand winch, I find I've got better control and as the logs are being rolled on not pulled there's very little effort needed.
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I wouldn't, as it's a directory I'm not really sure that's a necessary feature
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Electric is fine if you've got somewhere secure to keep the trailer otherwise it'll get liberated or it's a case of removing each night.
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I used my 660 with a 36" bar for years for milling until I could afford an 880, only problem I had was with the sissy pin snapping but once I took that out and put a blanking plug in no problems.
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You're better off loading from the side, pulling the log up from the back will put a lot of strain on the winch
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My next door neighbour is a reserve fireman, the day after they switched the cameras on he was doing a blue light run down the M1 and said he set off every camera at 80mph. So yes, the cameras are live
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Oh yeah, forgot to say done & done
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Perseverance is what you need and a glass of wine, if at first you don't succeed try again, it does work
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Even if you used an undermounted sink you'll have problems around the taps and the drip bead. Wooden work surface are great but no good near water, I suggest you use granite for that bit.
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It doesn't matter which wood you use none of them will fair well around a sink. I've used Ash in the past for work surfaces and finished with danish oil.
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Originally trees were quarter sawn for stability of boards, so that the growth rings were at 90 degrees or as near as possible to the plane, this cuts down on the board trying to straighten itself. However, they discovered that when oak was quarter sawn it also produced highly figured grain. If you look a the the image se7enthdevil posted that is the true way to quarter sawn but as already has been pointed out it is extremely wasteful way to mill which is why this method is very rarely used in commercial mills, that and it's nigh on impossible to cut other then by hand, they would have been cleaved from the log with a frow.
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Is that for hard or softwood? Works out at roughly 28kg per cu/ft. If hoppus foot is the measurement of what a log is expected to produce taking into account 25% wastage, to work out the weight you'd have to add the 25% back on to get a more accurate figure, Yes!
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That should read 'not convinced'
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Does anyone know of a way of working out the weight of trees, I found one on the web but convinced it's accurate. Thanks in advance
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Well, I've looked at them and can confirm they are differently big. Not totally sure what I'd do with them but I'm working on it. The one that died in the last year is about 6' DBH
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Yeah, no problem. Would you prefer it without the watermark.
