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If you're properly insured your insurance company will deal with it.

I have a whole heap of tropicals I bought from a gun stock maker as he would only sell in job lot and there was some walnut slabs I paticularly wanted. These are still in the workshop but soon to be planed when my lucas planer head gets off the boat. Apart from one small paduak mirror frame ive never used any of the tropicals because there not British.

After watching a few videos, the thing that isn't clear to me is the blade spacing in the frame. Can you put a blade anywhere or just at preset places, so the option would be you either have a blade there or not?

Weird. When I try to quote clives thread it quotes steves which appears to be from another thread entirely.

I thought that but then when i zoomed in i thought it was just a pattern in sawdust rather than the actual board it self.

What sort of wood is it steve?

Wooden floors are great. A properly laid floor is water resistant. Not much is water proof.

Looks interesting but slow. But I suppose it's making alot of cuts. Wouldn't be something I would invest in but if you have the work fir it. What does all the softwood you sell get used for?

Well said.

How times change in 1200 pages.

I haven't seen the programme mentioned, I will try to find it. Is it a channel 5 job?. Surely how much the chain blunts depends on the type of earth your cutting through. If it was cleanish soil woukd it still blunt the chain dramatically?

Yes. Same rules apply as to driving on provisional.

You may be right. I'm only looking on my phone but to me it looked like a full width plank of a slightly tapering small tree with the bark removed.

Also search the forum for 'milling books' for a couple of other threads on this subject.

The pdf is actually no longer available because the book has been reprinted. It can now be purchased here. [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chainsaw-Lumbermaking-Will-Malloff/dp/1626540527]Chainsaw Lumbermaking: Amazon.co.uk: Will Malloff: 9781626540521: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ox9ogXqGL.@@AMEPARAM@@51ox9ogXqGL[/ame]

Chainsaw lumber making by will malloff. A pdf link can be found here. http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/chainsaw-lumbermaking-by-will-malloff-pdf-project.81715/

Hi Mark . To post a link just copy and paste the url (Web address) into the post. Cheers

Looks alright for 1k. Pretty the sure the picture of plank is some old slightly twisted seasoned plank thar he's put on the mill for demo. None of the timber around the mill looks freshly milled to me and there is no sawdust to be seen.

Certainly is a lot of money. I just use a file in a guide and a granberg precision grinder if there bad. The only advantage of this I can see is it might make it easier to sharpen my lucas slabbing chain while still on the mill.

We have some end grain cobbles here around 100 years old very worn and half of them replaced with brick where they are worn but still stunning. Think the cutting and laying of them may be a little time consuming for this job. I was thinking along the lines of a deck , problem is the design keeps changing in his head. We may vend up Beith some walls yet. The customer is becoming a friend. A firewood dealer who i have done probably 10 days milling for in the past. Sleepers mostly for sale and to landscape his garden of the house he's building. Managed to cut 78 8x4 4m sleepers in one of the days. Was pretty chuffed with that. Thankfully it's all on day rate and he will be helping so price doesn't really matter. We're going to sit down. Over a beer one evening soon and get the design down and cutting list made. Just thought I'd check if anybody had any tricks id missed for green oak flooring. Alec do you see a problem laying the boards with a 1 or 2 mm gap so that as they shrink you would end up with a sensible 5mm gap an then it would just need some extra screws putting in when dry. I'll be milling with a lucas so no problem taking the beams and quarter sawing the boards out of the whole log. Cheers

Ok I'm doing a job for a guy who has a few nice oak butts. The job is mill them up and build a smallish open sided garden building out of the green oak. basically a social building fir bbq etc. He sprung it on me today that he wants to put an oak floor in too. He has enough butts. But we haven't milled any of it yet. Buildings the structure is fine. So my question is if you had to put a rustic floor in out green oak, do you think it's at all possible and how would you go about it. I have explained that it's a no no but he seems keen to try. Cheers James

Oh dear

Hi. I have a job in a couple of months time that will require an 8 wheeler load of decent quality oak saw logs, although I would happily take an artic if preferred. I'm based near Milton Keynes so the closer to there the better. I can sort my own transport or uou can include it in your price. If you can help please get back to me with price and availability. Cheers James

I had one some years ago. Took me about 4 weeks till back to work and 8 weeks till I forgot about it. Light duties Ok after about 2 weeks. But none of them in my job.

Well it said on the radio today that over the weekend country file had the most ratings. 8.5 million compared to second place War and peace at 4.5million. So not everyone agrees. I Think it's more popular with the townys.