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Thanks for your advice guys, it's one of the main reason I like this forum. I've been milling oak trunks at an sssi site today no vehicular access, loaded the kit onto a wheelbarrow and off I went. Took some photos at the end of the day and there's no marks on the woodland floor to say anyone has been in, the sawdust will rot down. Think I'll stick to my chainsaw mill.

Most of my milling is done on site in the middle of woodlands with limited access or back gardens again with limited access. Would I be better off with a bandsaw mill or should I just stick to the alaskan, milling with the alaskan has got easier since I fitted a winch but as I've been slagged off for not using a bandsaw mill I thought I'd ask.

I burn only sweet chestnut, can spit if a bit damp but when dry it's great.

Also known as Canary wood in some timber yards

Wood Theft Update: Having camped out from 6am last Sunday no one showed so I think putting new and extra barriers in place has seemed to have stopped the thieving gits taking from the stack. However, I was there last Friday taking down a large hung-up and discovered tyre tracks on the main road where they are parking then walking into the wood and cutting down small dead trees, dragging them roadside and loading. Someone must see them! The tyre tracks are wide with low tread, like a tractor trailer. If any of you guys who walk the woods near there spot something please pm me. My main concern is judging by the saw cuts they don't know how to take down or fell and that one day I'll walk into the wood and find someone dead under a tree. Them being dead under a tree for stealing isn't my concern it's the HSE investigation that'll cause the headaches! The police are aware of the problems we're having. A couple of months ago someone came in with a mini digger, dug 5 deep holes, cleared some brash and drove out again. It was all very neat apart from leaving 5 holes.

Warning to all woodland owners/managers. I manage a small woodland in Sherwood Forest, mainly Sweet Chestnut. Last year we felled some of the standards to make room for the new growth and open up the canopy. The timber was stack on the main ride with a view to mill up for post etc. However, every Sunday morning for the last 3 weeks between daybreak and 10am someone has been coming into the woodland and helping themselves to the timber. They park outside the main gates walk in cut the timber up and walk out with it. We've heard from other woodland owners in the area who are having the same problem./ We think these people are doing the rounds on a Sunday morning before taking the wood to the Sunday market to sell. Apart from the theft the most annoying thing is the blatant way in which these thieves work, no one questions you if your wearing a high vis jacket and carrying a chainsaw in the woodland, why would they! Please be vigilant with your own timber stacks and don't let these scrum bags make from your hard work.

Oh dear, don't think I should have read this. I want one now!

I'm in Switzerland on my jollies, so I thought I'd check out the price of a new stihl 47" bar seeing as they're made in Germany. In the UK the bar will cost me about £300 in Switzerland the same bar is £420! Think I'll wait until I get back.

As someone who works mainly solo, I would just like to say this is a fabulous piece of kit and my best buy this year. Thanks Rob

I'll try it and let you know if it works. Thanks

Is it safe to do that?

No, it's a Rollamatic ES 36" the crack is across the part that fits in the saw, right on the oil hole straight through, clean break.

36" Sthil, which ever one takes the .404 chain

Sorting out saws for milling job tomorrow and found a crack in the guide bar in line with the oil hole. That's a new bar needed now! Anyone else had this problem

I thought the general view was that the amount of co2 a tree produces when it's burned is far outwheighed by what it consumes over it's lifetime. Solar & wind power maybe renewable but what is the co2 impact on the environment whilst manufacturing the panels & turbines, neither of which have a lifetime guarantee of more than 25 years. Compared to coal, gas & oil, wood is the only one that's renewable.

Thanks Rob

I morticed the rails into the legs by about an inch so that the legs take the weight the made 'L' brackets in Oak that I screwed and glued to the rails so that once the rails were inserted into the legs the bracket hooked around the leg, it could then be screwed to the leg and also through the tenon that way securing everything (hopefully) in place. I sort out a photo that will help explain it better. The key thing is that the rail is morticed into the leg, don't use dowels they are not strong enough, I've lost count of the number of beds I've repaired for (redfaced) customers were the dowels have broken!

Thanks . There were a few tears (I think it was of joy!)when they collected it last night. Most of the Yew tree had been ringed up for firewood by the time I was notified so only managed to get 6 x 6ft boards as halfway done hit a large nail that took off 4 teeth but the quality of the wood was worth it.

I don't post pics of what I make to often but this one is a bit special, so I thought I'd share it. I made a bed frame as a wedding present for my eldest son and his new wife (they got married last Saturday). The headboard is made from a single plank of English Yew cut from a tree grown in the grounds of Nottingham University and the rest of the wood is Sweet Chestnut cut from a tree grown in King's Wood, Sherwood Forest. (the only place I could take the pic was in me front room in front of the unlit fire, hence the brass fender underneath) The curve of the footboard follows the original line of the bark, which I cut off.

This is how I attached the rope, it worked fine. I hooked the rope on and started to wind. I screwed it into the section that isn't used, as you will always lose the first couple of inches of a board once dry no harm is done.

Used the winch for the first time this week on some more London Plane, works great much easier and less strain on the old body. Thanks for posting the idea in the first place Rob.

Don't think I did too bad out of the deal, 3 days milling pay and a promotional video.

Look here alaskan mill I home of the portable chainsaw mill for the grinding tool Rob D is talking about. Just had to shell out £1,650 for a planer/thicknesser, so will have to stick with hand filing for another couple of months.

Don't see your comments as a downer, all advice greatfully received thanks. Chain is an oregon ripping, it was due a sharpening/changing when vid was taken. Pleased you enjoyed the vid.

I milled a Cedar in the garden of a house in a little village called Edensor on the Chatsworth estate a couple of weeks ago. The son of the guy with the tree filmed me and made this short film: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZc2lSL9qV0]Forest 2 Furniture - On-Site Milling with Patrick Turk - YouTube[/ame] Thought you guys might like to see it!