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  1. Forest2Furniture
    The planks on both pieces are held together with pegged loose tenons, I don't use glue, so as the wood dries further the joints tighten.
  2. Forest2Furniture
    Garden table in Sweet Chestnut 3m long x 1.3m wide the top is 65mm thick. Finished with danish oil. It had to be carried through the clients house as he has no direct access to his back garden!
  3. Forest2Furniture
    Sure is Rob and it looks like it goes all the way through. The spare parts ordered for the mill arrived just in time, thanks for the great sevice.
  4. Forest2Furniture
    I started milling a beast of a Copper beech yesterday 20' long x 4' diameter until my sciatica kicked in. There's a nice bit of burr on some of the boards. milling boards at 2" & 1.25" thick at full width as I don't want to split the burr yet.
  5. Forest2Furniture
    Bit of advice, if you do get an 880 change the air filter from the crappy corrugated card one to the old fashion green mesh type as the corrugations fill up with wood dust and kill the saw.
  6. Forest2Furniture
    Worth it in the end. Got just over 70 boards in 12' & 9' lengths ranging 16" - 38" wide 1.25" - 2" thick and as I have torn the ligaments in my lower back it wasn't me but my mate moving the boards the 200 yds from tree to truck.
  7. Forest2Furniture
    Yeah, you spend a lot of time checking the soles of your boots!
  8. Forest2Furniture
    It certainly smelt like elm, I was surprised at the width of the softwood
  9. Forest2Furniture
    A closer look at what I milled, be interested to know what it is as I now have 140 cubic ft of it
  10. Forest2Furniture
    I thought red elm was the american for the english wych elm
  11. Forest2Furniture
    Thanks, I've got a client who is after a couple of farmhouse type tables and unit doors for their farmhouse refurb to start with. Also got a guy who makes high end wooden boxes who is after some.
  12. Forest2Furniture
    It's not cherry, apart from the bark not being right for cherry the smell was anything but sweet!
  13. Forest2Furniture
    I did wonder! A lot of hard work and if I'd known about the community politics before I started may well have walked away. But ended up with some nice boards so not much to complain about.
  14. Forest2Furniture
    I arrived, I milled, I left.
  15. Forest2Furniture
    Thanks you kind sir. I've never used husky's so I don't know what their like but most guys I know who do milling use the Stihl ms880
  16. Forest2Furniture
    880 for the main mill 660 for side mill and small stuff
  17. Forest2Furniture
    The tree & the wood I ended up with about 130 cubic ft f wood board thickness 1.25" - 2" widths 15" - 38" in 12' & 9' lengths. It had to be milled with a chainsaw mill as the only access was a path between the graves no more then 4' wide. The closest I could get the trailer was 200yds away so everything was hand balled on plank wheels through the church yard and around the headstones!
  18. Forest2Furniture
    The chair of the pcc told the vicar to butt out and apologise to me for sticking his nose in. I've paid the neighbour for the tree who had been given it by the pcc. So now ownership is mine which is just as well as 90% of the tree has been milled with the planks are away from site in storage
  19. Forest2Furniture
    Sorted!
  20. Forest2Furniture
    I've got some in Notts about 160 cubic ft
  21. Forest2Furniture
    3 months ago I was asked by a guy to mill up a Wych Elm that had been felled on the boundary between his and his neighbours property and that the neighbour had given the tree to him. As the tree was to be milled in situ on the neighbours property (a cemetery) the relevant insurance documents were sent and accepted. Now 3 quaters of the way through milling the tree and removing boards from site each night the neighbour (the vicar) has come to me and said seeing as I'm getting the wood for free he thinks I should contribute towards the felling costs in the form of a donation, turns out his neighbour, my client hasn't let on that he has SOLD me the tree. If it wasn't for the fact it's nice timber I would tell them where to stick it!
  22. Forest2Furniture
    Beech is a pig to mill at the best of times. Anything over 6 months down will be like concrete. I milled some 2 years ago that had been down 8 months nearly killed me and they were smaller diameter then these.
  23. Forest2Furniture
    The tree is at the top end of a cemetery with no vehicular access in any way shape or form so milling is by chainsaw and everything is being hand-balled the 200 yds to the entrance. Up until the point of the tree being felled no one was interested, now the tree is being milled the world and his wife want a piece of the action and I'm getting caught in the middle of a turf war, don't you just love community trees. However the timber is starting to be worth the trouble.
  24. Forest2Furniture
    Started preparing this 40' long x 42" diameter Wych Elm stem for milling today. Cut two sections off one at 12' the other at 9', I'll mill those first then move on to the rest.
  25. Forest2Furniture
    Oak coffee table finished with beeswax polish

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