twmarriott

funny i did wonder about asking about thermal stores on here! we're on our 2nd following a move 355sfw which is the multifuel version, running 12 rads, 350 ltr thermal store for mains pressure hot water and its a great bit of kit. does all cooking bar defrosting in the microwave but eats wood, usually use steam coal to mix with it, but works well, we manage to keep it in all year round and its free (sepecially with left over steam coal and wood from the farm)

we've just had 25 acres of pretty much usless wood next to our woodland sold for silly money, any way the new owners want to put 250 meters of hard road in there.....i presume eventually as a precoursor to development any way they've asked can i haul the stone / hardcore, i'm happy to do so but reasonably sure it'd be in breech of planning? any ideas?

got a year old tdci its crap, i wish i had kept the tdi i sawped for it! the build quality is worse, done nearly 30k box wines terribly and although its fast the economy is crap, much worse than mrs' td5 ,dealer back up is none existant and landrover don't care. i'm going jap next time!

to be honest its good practice to leave any fresh timber upright for some time (dependant on how wet it is) to dry to stop it going mouldy, scrubbing and hot water may bring it back but i suspect the colour may be screwed up. its a steep learing curve, if timber dries too quickly it will check and split, its a balancing act.

put a bit of unleaded on the live cambium that will kill it. and cheaper than roundup! just!

i did make a lathe to turn a 14" square lump or oak 17 foot long for a water mill shaft, used an i section girder and two landrover axles, i'll dig out the pics somewhere, used a angle grinder with a carving disk running along a steady, to make a perfect cylinder, then sanded it.

walnut is a difficult one, after milling about 60 odd trees over the years i've only ever had one good one, worth about 8k after milling.

sadly you can't get solid fuel agas now and they only ever ran on smokeless fuels any way, didn't like wood. The rayburn we have is much better and will burn anything and runs 10 rads and mains pressure hot water via a heat exchanger. Tirolia cookers aren't pretty but are good, and proabably more suited to timber as they have a larger fire box. my grand parents had one. still not convinced with paper logs though too much ash. Glossy mags will kill a rayburn. Wood chip for smoking isn't a bad idea though!

i'm a perfectionist, and as my wife says i'm the hardest person on myself, as i always want a perfect job, theres nothing wrong with some self apprasial, and generally every job i do gets a post mortem, but beating yourself up too much is bad. whats put in previous posts is very good advise. NO ONE should ever chastise any one for asking questions, however daft, you have to lear some how, a mistake is only bad if you don't learn from it and keep making the same ones.

don't know where you are but were in worcester and have a big 4wd tractor and winch and would be interested in the oak buts

this the list is journalistic tosh at best, i've personally had had various stoves including an 1860 coal range, present stoves include a morso squirell is good for a small one, we had a villager 16kw flat top in the dining room and a rayburn 355sfw in the kitchen, all different but did their job. bst workshop stove was a romesse, or a R6 from the hot spot, both ran on anything timber and gave out good heat.

this is what you want, i'm sure theres still money in shingles, if you had something like this to crank them out. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQtrK01j83I&NR=1]YouTube - Lane Shingle Mill[/ame]

keeps the top rotating to head to wind via gears and a rack or worm, the top (cap) has to face the on coming wind, otherwise the theing can come a cropper and either loose sails or top lift off. Talent... not sure, i've done it now for 17 years, one way or another, theres only a handfull of us who rebuild such things but to be honest reda tape is killing it, when i first got a job, the old chap i worked for just went out looked at it, you had two prices one for working one for static, sent a letter, got a job, did it recieved cheque, now its all managed, programed, risk assessed, i'm doing less of it, more milling timber and playing with my steamer and ag contract work to pay the bills! its got to be similar in the arb world too? any way back to the thread... if you know what you want, its not difficult to draw it up yourself. but if you know a tame architect for house extensions its handy as building regs are constantly changing, there are some good books about i'll hunt them out, failing that pm me , and if your in no rush i'll draw something up when i get a minute, it really is that easy. but if you are building it yourself make it easy and pick standard timber sizes and mortice sizes.

yep, though it'll never run, its council owned, thats the bread and butter day job, when not sawing timber. heres a few more, it blew over in 2003 and i was subbed to an out fit near henley on thames who rebuilt it done quite a few others too and last summer new top and sails at bardwell

i've only ever done one conventional house type building but how about this? that woudl look much nicer in your garden? finished

its jonathans to sell, i'd give him a call, on the number i posted.

must add that a stenner is the rolls royce of larger fixed / band mills. would look something like this

well i live in that triangle, not got a mog but a ford tw15 and mounted chipper, and a 12 ton dump trailer any good?

can do green oak 20£ cube 2" boards, 24" wide wainy edge air dry (less than 15%) would be 75£ cube but thats joinery grade stuff, i also have some pippy or more knarly stuff cheaper. erpends what you want/ need

i recon it'd be 3k maybe more, but it would set you up a saw mill theres all he doctoring kit there too, so theres a business in that too.

I suppose this is the best place for this but mods, if you want to move it please feel free, I have a friend, Jonathan wheeler who dismantled a saw mill before christmas initially for his own use at home in suffolk he's an engineer so knows what he's at, but he's had a re think and wants a portable mill, so its up for grabs, its a stenner VB band rack , will take a 3-4 inch wide band and has 20 foot tables, power feed etc. a serious mill, pretty much an industrial machine, he also has the band saw doctoring kit, swage, welder etc.. all complete except motor, but easily adapted for pto, via Vee belts. delivery could be arranged. Jonathan's number is 07929648369

I was allways told, "if you don't ask you don't get" nothing wrong with that, if you want to go into milling, i know of a big stenner VB48 bandmill, with 20' tables, but its not that cheap.

in a word no, you could play at it planking small round stuff 12 inch or less, but if you want to mill seriously you either need a large circular with traveling table, a band mill with table or a horizontal or a bar mill and a large ish chainsaw.

I've used bryco before, top job and proper old fashioned service.

oh and if any one has some largish butts that are sacrilage to ring let me know, i'll try do my best to give them a home