muttley9050
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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=96888 Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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This isn't strictly true. Softwood is strength graded by machine. Hardwood beams like oak are visually graded. I'm led to believe through previous discussions with Alec and my own research that there is no qualifications to do this grading. Specs for each grade of timber can be found and I am now grading my timber myself. If you look at the thread I will link to in the next post it shows me taking a tree purchased through arbtalk and using it as structural timbers in a barn conversion which the building inspector Is more than happy with. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I work for a guy that has one on a 6 tonne machine. He breaks down some massive logs with it and then puts through the processor. It works very well. Definitely leaves a messier log but does that really matter. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I'm in the market for a new saw and fancy trying a dolmar. Would be interested in a price for the 6100 on a 24" bar. Mostly needed for occasional use to work alongside my lucas mill. So open other suggestions of suitable saws with this bar length too. Cheers Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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They can come cheap at times. If those oak were near to me I would offer him £200 and try my luck. Is there no way of changing the design to shorten the rafters like the addition of a purlin. My experience of buying logs from woodyards is that you may need to arrange a meeting with the bank manager first. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Nice table. How did you attach the legs on it? Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I see then now. The ones on the tailer. They look OK. I'd probably aim to pay between £200-300 foe them. There is probably about 80 to 90 hoppus in them at a guess so there probably worth 300 to 400 if you need them. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Can't see the ones on eBay. if you link to them I'll tell you what I think. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Depends on quality. Cheap would be £4 a hoppus in the round or £15 a cubic ft sawn and green. For structural grade timber you would be looking at paying more than this. Of course it all depends on where your buying it from. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Nice table Adam. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I've got one slab no one is getting. But I do have large walnut slabs available. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Here's the next stage of the job. Oak porch. Scaffold just down today so can see it eventually. Oak truss on front of porch utilised metal king post and angled top from the original barn were converting. Pitch was slightly wrong but made it fit. Currently building some mezzanines inside so will post pics of that soon. Still plenty of the tree left too.
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Cool thread. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Think the law is 15mins paid break for every 4 hours worked. So if you do 9 to 5 you are entitled to 15 minster break paid if you work 8.45 till 5 you are entitled to 30 mins. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I have walnut that size too in Bucks Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Don't worry about it too much put your arch to the top and as you say middle leg can be a touch longer. . Don't rely on your roof to push beam down. An oak beam with an arch facing up is supposedly stronger than a straight one. Don't think about trying to straighten it through cutting the arch out as you will only weaken the beam. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Likely be more stress in the top of the tree than the bottom. An oak beams with a camber isn't a terrible thing. Can be nice and strong if fitted with the camber up. Not all trees contain stress as bad as you have described. But a straight piece of wood is a rare thing. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Ok. I've been had over by the town council to do some cedar milling and work for them in a newly opened public arboretum. In return I get some firewood and a couple of decent felled sycamore for milling. One is heavily spalted. So I've read stuff before about seasoning sycamore stood up to stop staining. But if I just stick and stack it with the rest of my timber what is likely to happen. Will I get use able timber or will it just be a waste of time. What's the ideal way to season it.. Cheers James Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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They were already a bit greyed on the cuts when I took delivery and that was over a year ago, probably 2. Will trim 10mm on the end next Time I'm in the field with a saw and have a look. Intend to mill then in the next month anyway as I have a load of other stuff I want to mill. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Day rate and half day rate for Me. Half day is about 80% of full day rate. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I've got a couple of 4ft oak butts lying in the field ready for milling. Had an inkling that one may have a touch of brown oak in. Anyway lately a load of large fungus that I'm largely certain is fistulina hepatica has appeared over the butt end. So will this make the oak brown and what's favourite to do with it. Mill it or leave it longer to go browner if it will now it's dead? Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Nicely done mate. Didn't know you were a film star! Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Pics. A few of the bundles of oak. Got a bundle of mahogany somewhere. Some pieces have smsll splits in. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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I got loads of odd veneers I'm never going to use. Large amounts of mahogany and oak. Small amounts is zebrino ,coco bolo birds eye maple some heavily burred timber where the veneer is far from flat and lots I an clueless to species. All small ish pieces though. Pics to follow. Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
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Really. Banbury is only up the road. You have details? Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
