muttley9050
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I have the lucas planer and featherboard attatchment. Good pieces of kit. Only plane when fully seasoned generally. Most movement will occur in the final part of seasoning. Cutting feather board takes a while to get your head around and while to work out how to get both boards the same thickness. As each alternate board is cut the opposite way up. I can tell you the adjustments on mine I use next time in near the mill as its written in the tool box but yours may be different.
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Sycamore will slightly discolour but also spalt if left on the ground. I leave sycamore for 2 years then slab the lot. Not great for building. Elm can be used for construction but to be honest most of those logs have too many big knots in to be any good for any building. Last picture is firewood, next one up not construction worthy. Next one up looks to have shake and ring shake. Cut into big beams around the faults. Next one up good construction timber. Next one up slab the lot. You can resaw into 4x2 etc once seasoned around faults. 1 Next 3 slabs all the way. Top one I think will give you good construction timber.
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Got this. Had it years. Really like it, especially the for long Milling chains with metal damage G1012XT Granberg Precision Grinder - Get better chain sharpening results WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK Works off any 12v battery. Fast and accurate chain sharpening. Once familiarised very easy to use - clamps to the bar for consistent teeth.
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I got the dewalt. Don't do enough fencing to justify a second. I pay an awful lot less than £100 for 1100 stainless nails, last lot I bought was £30 for 1100 90mm without gas. The 51mm are cheaper again so price is comparable to your coil nails. Dewalt needs no more maintenance than a coil nailer either. If I was firing nails all day id probably get a coil but id also be incredibly bored. So the dewalt does me fine. Way easier on a roof than a coil and air line. Good tool imo. Would never consider a gas gun again and I've had a few over the years
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Underpriced or not the job gets done properly
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Looks like a badly modified mitre saw stand. Nice idea. Badly made
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Built this pergola recently. Originally priced out for treated pine as that's what they asked for. Then they asked how much extra for English oak. So I did a fag packet calculation for the difference and forgot a few things. Couple of unpaid days in the workshop to follow. Note to self. Estimate when sat down and thinking straight. I've underpriced in the past far worse but this was the most recent.
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Fit trvs to your c/h so you can turn the rest of the house off?
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Sequoia Alaskan or site milling?
muttley9050 replied to cjdg's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The 900mm sections will be of interest to chainsaw carvers. If there not split seasoned and burnt already. -
Sequoia Alaskan or site milling?
muttley9050 replied to cjdg's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Nice tree. Weird thread -
Nice. Any chance of pics of inside spaces.?
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I started out with a dewalt thicknesser and a dirt cheap jointer. The fence wasn't worth using so mounted an oak one on it and it was ace. Didn't bother with tilt because if i wanted it at an angle I would use a table saw. Still occasionally take it on site if I think I will need it but have a decent cast jointer now. Still have the dewalt as my only thicknesser, except the lucas mill planer, and I can't fault it. Bomb proof and a good finish. Cheap modern tools are shit. Alot of the expensive ones to. Don't phone a salesman and be surprised when they tell you what they are selling is good.
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Just the look of the pictures would put me off that. All plastic. If you want to buy cheap then your much better off buying a surface planer and a thicknesser seperately. But if that is your budget you won't even get a reasonable second hand one
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Christmas trees are a good blag if your allowed to plant.
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Nice. They do look like great tools.
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Looks awesome. What's the length and width of cut.?
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2 years to put a shovel in the ground. When that's done no time limit.
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Hate seeing Robinia as firewood. Beautiful and I believe the most durable of all native species.
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I have no issues with drying Sycamore. Lovely timber. Similar to beech it benefits from being left on the ground for a year to encourage spalting. Table in this photo is a lovely bit of syc. Stays flat and beautiful grain.
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They are reasonably simple machines mark. What exactly can't you sort on it?
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I cut big oaks all the time. 6m x 12" is definately not worth 2k. If only 4 beams came out of an oak it isn't that big.Beams 10m plus get more expensive as trees of beam quality are hard to find at that length. In my opinion the oak trigger is cutting is not really beam quality due to the faults and excessive twisting of the grain. Makes nice slabs but will be difficult slabs to control at 6m long.
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Definately got a sliding carriage I expect the was originally a ratchet mechanism to move t he log sideways
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I thought this machine was belt driven from a stationary engine so no 3ph motor to worry about?
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Your right in some ways but I look at it differently. I already have a lucas so not in the market but if I had the space and wanted something for hobby Milling I could justify this not a all singing Woodmizer. Would take me a day to get it back to mine my dad would help. So no great cost. Evenings when I fancied for a month or two to get it all set up and make or buy the bits required. I would enjoy this process so no bother. Not a fan of eastenders. Is advertised as cutting like a dream and engine is working so isn't broken yet. Looks like a cheap set up for the right person to me but I have been wrong before. I do agree though. Commercially not viable. But many of the things i do with wood aren't really commercially viable either.
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I don't see how that could cost so much to move and transport. Pretty sure I could do it for next to nothing. I appreciate a Woodmizer would be a better choice but a decent Woodmizer is 10k plus. Pretty sure I could buy this for 1.5 k and have it running in my workshop for another grand. Its comes with an engine so no 3 phase required
