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Does anyone know of a mobile bandsawmill & operator that works in and around North Nottinghamshire? If you know of someone please get in touch. Thanks, Pat
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Does anyone know of a mobile bandsawmill & operator that works in and around North Nottinghamshire? If you know of someone please get in touch. Thanks, Pat
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Thanks Big J for your advice, I sense your annoyance that someone is stupid enough to try this but everyone has to start somewhere and hopefully learn by their mistakes. I've done an extensive google search for mobile bandsawmill and as yet have come up with nothing nearby, short of buying my own. Alec, that's what I do with my first cut too.
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The whole project is madness! If I find that the timber on the ground is no good and I have to fell more I'll get in a bandsawmill. In the mean time do we know of anyone local to north Nottingham who has one and out of interest how many 8' boards 1" thick would a mil produce in a day?
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The general idea is to do it all with the alaskan. I'm getting out about 25 - 30 planks a day and now I've got a winch on the mill and a way of locking the throttle, milling is a lot easier then when I first started 8 years ago. What I've got on the ground won't be enough so I have spotted 3 more trees for felling this coming week.
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This is the 1st of 420 x 8' long planks of sweet chestnut that a client has ordered. The logs I'm milling first have been on the ground since early 2012 and are cutting very nicely.
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I use wooden ones that I've made out off cuts
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What's the hoppus rate for sweet chestnut? I've got a lot to buy off a woodland owner who's a friend and I want to give him a fare price based on the current rate.
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one square metre is 10.8 square feet not 35.31. That's the number of cubic feet in cubic metre!
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Air filter extension/upgrade for 880?
Forest2Furniture replied to Daniël Bos's topic in Milling Forum
I only find the air filter gets clogged when I'm doing the lower cuts on a trunk and I'm close to the saw dust pile. Never had a problem with clogged filter any other time. However I can see what your getting at but not sure the engine would be pulling in enough air from that distance. -
Thanks for that Alec Pat
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Does anyone know the hoppus foot rate for Sweet Chestnut & Oak? I want to give the woodland owner a fair price for it.
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They think it's a fair price and are considering it, according to a friend that works on the estate the manager is going to try and bid me up but as I based my price on just over £6 per hoppus foot there's not a great deal of movement. They're nice trees but as you say there will be others.
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Thanks for that guys. I put a price in today based on what Big J said this morning and the owner thinks I'm trying to shaft them. I know for a fact that none of the local timber yards will come out for just one tree so it looks like it will be left to rot!
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Thanks for the advice. This might be a daft question Jonathan but how do you work out hoppus foot of a tree? Pat
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I've got the option to buy a yew tree felled last week, it's in four pieces. Longest length is 16' and 24" in diameter, one at 12' and 15" in diameter with the other two pieces 10' and 12" in diameter, all are straight & solid. Any ideas on what I should be offering would be helpful?
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Tried out my new Sugihara pro 46" guide bar today, supplied by Rob D. Great bar, nice and solid unlike the stihl 47" and with a nose spocket, seemed to be using less fuel on a cut as well which can't be bad. Thanks Rob
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I've been milling 3' & 4' diameter beech logs that have been down for several months, there's no way I could have done them without the winch. Having milled for 7 years without I fitted the winch halfway through last year after reading Rob's piece on here. Wouldn't dream of not using the winch now. Easy to fit and use, finish is far superior then before and you're not knackered at the end of the day.
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I do a lot of milling on my own and of all the bits of kit I bought last year the best by far was the winch for the alaskan mill. Not only does it save time, you get a better cut and most importantly you don't knacker your back! waking up the morning after a day of milling and being able to get out of bed without assistance is a real improvement.
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Sweet chestnut - how far north?
Forest2Furniture replied to wrsni's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The 17.5 acre woodland I manage in North Nottinghamshire is nearly all Sweet Chestnut, some of them over 350 years old. -
So, what are we going to do about it? 90% of the people on here depend on trees and woodlands for their lively hood. As a group we should be getting together with Natural England and the likes and start a campaign in the same way that happened when the same government knumpties wanted to sell of the woodlands.
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What bandsaw mill if at all?
Forest2Furniture replied to Forest2Furniture's topic in Panther Mill UK
Thanks for that. -
Stack boards with 3/4" square strips of softwood (stickers) every 16", like this
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What bandsaw mill if at all?
Forest2Furniture replied to Forest2Furniture's topic in Panther Mill UK
No one would know
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What bandsaw mill if at all?
Forest2Furniture replied to Forest2Furniture's topic in Panther Mill UK
The Oak was felled to make room of an ancient to grow, in addition English Heritage says there isn't enough dead wood, so they're are felling good Oak trees!
