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Have you guys heard of sawstop. Wouldn't be surprised if it was rolled out on ball saws like this soon. It's pretty impressive. [ame] [/ame]

This page has the name and correspondence address of Linda Buxton hopley. The registered director . Personally I would write her a letter explaining how disappointed you are with her company. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/RpUuChjFJZCrB9P_hMDmaZ_IH14/appointments

Stand your ground. Don't be part of this problem for other people by rolling over and doing the retailers job for them . Contact management and trading standards. If everybody rolls over then the retailer continually gets away it and it creates a cycle. Someone has to stand up to them.

That's rubbish. They sold you the goods . The contract of sale is between you and them . Several European regulations on this. Stand your ground and get your boots replaced. If the second pair is faulty you are entitled to a no quibble refund. http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guarantees/index_en.htm

If your not qualified you can't collect it to sell it.

Hi I have a tip site for chip in winslow bucks. Near Milton Keynes. Pm me for address. Cheers. James

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What is the ground saw that stihl have offered up? Thanks

Just Googled it. Scratch my last post. You dan get the saw for around 800 and they do look good. Might be my next mitre saw if I think it will fit on my existing stand. I assume you have no problem cutting and trenching an 8x4?

Never seen that model. But couldn't justify that money on a mitre saw. Would love one although I'm not motivated for work enough to spend that.

That's cool.if I win it i'll gift it to my Bro in law.

I dint find it too hard pushing but i just sit my bum against the carriage and lean on it. This is maybe why i don't cut that fast. As it happens I have a planer head on the water at the moment. Should be here in 3 weeks. Sander seems pointless to me as I can sand quite happily by hand(dewalt orbital) after its planed It's .relatively simple to fit from what I can gather .it just replaces the circular blade. With a capacity to planr 6ft width i don't think £800 is too bad. But it is expensive for what your getting. I see what your saying about the electric plane but it pointless planing up green slab. When I'm using the circular blade it takes 3 or 4 mins to change blades sp I guess it would take the same to fit the planer. What I would do is get a pile of seasoned slabs out to a log at home. Take the log down to halfway with the circular blade. Then fit planer head plane slabs on top of log. Refit circular blade and finish log. If you haven't a log to mill uou can always make a cradle from some 4 X2 to plane on top of. I certainly wouldn't bother planing a slab I've just milled . But I can see it would be slow to slab the plane then slab then plane etc. Are you using a 3 skip or 5 skip chain on the smaller logs? Cheers James

The only reason the rage will cut steel is because of the blade supplied. This means it won't give you as good a cut in wood as say a Freud blade but there great for naily timber. My Bro has a rage saw which I've used abd there Ok. In miter saws I rate dewalt more than makita but Festool are awesome but only have a small depth of cut. Never used or seen a jefferson. The rage is good as a diy saw I wouldn't get one for myself as I'm a carpenter amongst other things but it suits my Bro in law just fine For fine woodwork upgrade the blade and disregard any led guide lights.

So what if I win it when I don't have a ticket to use it? I do own a top handle. But only coz I bought it at farm auction to fix up. I've never used it honest.

Lucas slabber attatchment costs about 1200 including the vat. The bar is 600 on its own. Dedicated slabbing mill is around 14k+vat.

I've milled a little Holm oak and didn't have any problems but they were only small. Look very different to yours too. I will upload a pic later. When I'm making tables from wide slabs I usually make a frame for the legs. So 4 legs and 4 rails mortice abd tennon together. I then fix the rails to the slab with stretcher plates to allow it to move as much as it likes.

That's faster that the lucas slabber . 15 or 20 mins I guess. But it is a lot easier.

Here's some pics of me messing around with a 3 ft sweet chestnut ring for a customer. Told him it as unlikely to work but he was determined to try.

Interesting thread. Not noticed it before. I've used my lucas slabber a few times but never on anything as narrow as what your cutting. So it's hard to compare speed. It does look like yours is cutting fairly fast. I do find the slabber slow . I can rip the tree into 8 x 1 probably 3 times faster than into 2"slabs. Never thought about using a winch. I'd be interested to know from someone wgat sort of time it would take to make a cut in a 4 ft by 10ft oak with an 880 or 090 in an alaskan?

If I were you i would try varying your diet a little. ;-)

Just took some pics before I read your reply. No end grain pic but can get one tomorrow. Dug this 2" board out the stack. Been outside covered in tin and a little damp one end bit mostly dry. Havent got round to moving that pile to my new shed yet. Forgot but do have inch boards too.

All 2" guess it's about 1ft or so wide. I can only identify aa maple but will uncover ut and take a pic for you to identify. How do you tell the difference?

What size do you need steve. Got some maple I milled a couple of years back but can't remember what type it was. Was either field or Norway.

Surely for greedy boards wbp should last as long as marine unless you live close to the sea and there's a lot of salt in the air?. I was taught the only difference between good marine and good wbp is the salt water resistance.

There everywhere mate. It's from pin hole borer. Not normal wood worm.