twmarriott
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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I've used bryco before, top job and proper old fashioned service.
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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
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i'd agree with Rob D on that, i got into milling as i'm a carpenter who specialised in building restoration (did some of the roof on windsor castle when it burned) so had to hew lots of timber for that. a friend / cabinet maker started milling with a guiliet band saw and home made table, we moved to a rack, he bought a band rack, i got the circular rack,then when we bought the farm the rack moved with me. i've got three now. theyre not the most effiicient, they make lots of saw dust but are good when set up and if you have a teleporter to handle the logs. i can saw 100 cube in a day relatively easily. but the teeth are expensive and getting harder to get hold of. most of what i mill i stick and use my self. its also good fun with the marshall tractor or even better the steam engine.
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fantastic spreadsheet, very easy to use! its always a difficult one, i've been getting 18-25 for green oak and around the 40 ,mark for air dry beams and boards but we actually sell very little as i'm a chippy my self, it'd be interesting to know what folks are paying in the round? we've been running on 2-5 on the deck with us finding transport etc.... maybe we could compile a directory
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depends on air flow, builders bags covered isn't the best way to dry it, its probably quicker in a heap as the bags impede air flow. most will get below 25% over the summer, it also depends on sizes and wither split or not. ash and holly will burn green. oak and sycamore will need well over a year in a builders type bag, in a heap in our draughty barn maybe if split in spring it's burnable by sept.
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w l west will buy them and you should get 2-8£ cube/ft on the deck.
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rob theres a few steam chaps about near you, try find one with a bench, they use poplar for brake blocks and lagging, i slabbed one a few months ago and got 15 /cubic foot! your too far from me to buy it but there are a good few shows at old warden etc in beds and it may help if you could sell some 20 ft logs at that price. other than that it will go as fire wood but needs seasoning well over a year and is quite swift.
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you need one of these [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY&feature=fvw]YouTube - WORLDS FASTEST LOGSPLITTER[/ame] you'd need some balls and luck to use it though!
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theres also my even more expensive shed heater, but i usually feed it coal. two friends cooking breakfast after nov.5 party.
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this was in our farm house when we moved in, we paid a lot for the house and the burner came free or the house was cheap and the burner expensive, we eventually want to open the inglenook back out which will be 8ft wide and 5 ft high. but we'll put a proper burner in then, we have a 16kw villager or maybe invest in a clearview. till now we're stuck with this, its innefficient but will kick out heat.
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if the pto is jumping out keep clear, its a cab off job to sort and most likely bearings on the lay shaft or wear on the forks in the gear box. i did an inter 885 super 2 a long time a go when 15 (32 now) and remember it was a pain, forks had to be built up with weld as i remember. also watch out for brakes theyre also a pain to do in internationals, o ring goes but its off with the axle trumpets.
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yew is relatively slow growing, but can be very long-lived, with the maximum recorded trunk diameter of 4 metres probably only being reached in about 2,000 years. The potential age of yews is impossible to determine accurately and is subject to much dispute. There is rarely any wood as old as the entire tree, while the boughs themselves often hollow with age, making ring counts impossible. There are confirmed claims as high as 5,000-9,500 years and although native yew is ntive and spread by birds is unusual in woodland its likely it was planted there as most yews generally have links with human activity, churches. so i'd expect that'd explain your nails!
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get a diesel major cheapish to buy and to run, bits pleantyfull and cheap and easy to fix, useable and will happily run a small chipper grey fergie too small
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theyre the same thing fowler bought the marshalls in as skids and put tracks on them.
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no not really, we had the blade smithed in sheffield as it was loosing tension, and it now cuts 200% better than before and as good as new, we use simonds blue chip teeth, which i try to keep it sharp, even filing between say 10 cuts, you can soon tell when she's getting dull as the marshall will struggle on a deep cut. steamer chuffs instead. and i try to debark and keep most the grit out of it, we use diesel on the blade over night or old engine oil for longer, we have some dogs to hold timber on the table but don't really use them, much of its about how the timber is sat on the bed, ie once cut is it going to drop onto the blade. here's me on holiday at dorset steam fair running a friends bench... we ran out of timber by friday!
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Not sure if this is the right post to put this under so moderators feel free to move it! any way wanted oak for beaming, clean straight over 18" diam. preferably worcestershire where we are, north herefordshire / south shrops , or warks. curves may be acceptable for wind braces. Hornbeam and beech for planking, must be clean.
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nope it wouldn't give you a 2nd chance, but as with all kit you treat it with some respect and your fine. we also have a steamer to drive it but i haven't any photos of that as she's just had a new boiler and not been in action for 3 years.
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firewood/wood wanted west midland area can collect
twmarriott replied to GreenCoToM's topic in Firewood forum
i'll sell you standing hazle but you'll have to cut and shift it. 01299 890128 (just west of stourport) -
we've an ancient stenner and gunn with a 20ft table, hydraulic feed and a 6foot 6 insert tooth blade. great bit of kit but not as fast as a band saw. i've a cheap metal detector but its not much cop, tend to be more picky about what i mill nowerdays.
