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  1. muttley9050
    Ok cheers, I had images of it gushing everywhere. Red must be a bit cheaper up your way. Paying 81p here and only pay 85 for bio diesel tax paid.
  2. muttley9050
    Looks lovely mate, doesn't that make an expensive smelly lubricant though? Just a reminder for lm1 and 15 prices to come my way at some point. Cheers James
  3. muttley9050
    That looks cool, but for that money id have a 660 and a mini mill!
  4. muttley9050
    The loss is in the shrinkage not the planeing. I probably plane around 1.5mm a side. Allow for 15% loss from mill to par.this will allow for a small amount of cupping. I've never had a problem drying oak. It can kick on big knots, just follow the rules. Oak should be air dried 6 months an inch up to about 3" before kilning. Thicker I would leave longer. Some Other species can go straight in kiln.
  5. muttley9050
    I'm always seeing posts from the 70s, only on my phone though.
  6. muttley9050
    The spiked plates are called gang nails. You could use them but they are hard to fit well to old non regular wood. They need fitting to both sides to be strong.
  7. muttley9050
    If you think you may have to resaw your oak it would be worth going a little thicker like 2 1/4 inch. If you mill at 2" by the the time its shrunk when drying your going to have less to play with. If it were me I would mill to the size I wanted initially. Of course allowing for a little(10%) shrinkage. I've wasted a lot of time this week resawing beams. I would always mill small butts through and through. Any other configuration would leave too narrow boards. James
  8. muttley9050
    I like free stuff.
  9. muttley9050
    Apparently the ha has offered to but a new tree so im sure moving the tree is an option? Always best to avoid neighbourly/boundary desputes(especially when you don't own the land) as they only end ill for all concerned. James
  10. muttley9050
    The dewalt is an amazing machine really. Planes wood as well as any static machine I've used and very good capacity for a portable. Use it on site loads doing interiors where you need random bits of wood to fit holes or repairing windows etc. Just wish I had the space for a 24" baby like delabodges. I would always recommend it as money well spent. Especially if your workshop is on the small side. The oak I planed that day was straight off the mill and it planed it lovely, but needed a little help to travel through. Kept sticking, especially the second face. James
  11. muttley9050
    Really would of liked to of made more rustic. But oak sapwood being what it is, I thought better of it.
  12. muttley9050
    Before I started making more stuff myself, we used to sell a lot of timber to the local college. This might be worth investigating. But they only bought well seasoned timber. Bear in mind if you mill oak at 3" it may be 3-4 years before you could sell it.
  13. muttley9050
    It's always worth more ti sell planked dried wood, but as Alec said people have to want the dimensions you have. You may have more luck on here selling in the round. Oak when milled and seasoned you could ask £25-30 a cubic ft. Depending in quality. good yew maybe 35. Ash and the like I would accept anything over £15. I could probably shift a fair bit if it for you in the round but when Planked will be harder to sell. I'm definatelt interested in what I mentioned earlier, but would only take it in the round as I like to mill my own timber and take through to a final product for market. My bro in law lives near you and he may be interested in some. Id be interested in a trailer full when I visit him in november but only in the round(except for the robina which I may buy planked if dimension was right). James
  14. muttley9050
    Id like to buy the robinia butt from you and also a bit of oak/Holm oak. I will be on your neck of the woods in about 2 months if you can wait that long?
  15. muttley9050
    Hi Rob, just seen this so thought id resurect it. Arbwork has just posted a thread about a show we did making some oak benches. I refrained from following a similar style to the one in this thread as i was concerned about the sap wood all rotting off. Did you do anything to stop this or just ignore it? Thanks James
  16. muttley9050
    Here's a pic of the two benches back at mine. Little and large.
  17. muttley9050
    Looking good mate, thanks for posting, is the time lapse going up?
  18. muttley9050
    Wow, that took some reading. To my knowledge it much depends on the rental agreement. Why don't you dig it up and move it, doesn't sound like its that big.
  19. muttley9050
    So say I delivered logs on a Monday, then Tuesday went on holiday which entailed a 4 hour drive, I would have tovrun the taxi and abide by stopping times etc. Seems daft.
  20. muttley9050
    So I'm considering buying a dmax. I appreciate id have to have a taco for delivering with a trailer etc. But once its fitted do you need to use it all the time even in domestic use or only when your over said weight.
  21. muttley9050
    Makes you look pretty short mate. Well done on this one. Wish you were closer so I could come perv over it!
  22. muttley9050
    I'd say there worth milling. Won't know for sure till there down though. Bit far for me to help though. Sorry
  23. muttley9050
    New Isuzu d max pulls 3.5 tonne.
  24. muttley9050
    I agree, don't need the work myself, but if i was closer is do it for the crack/exercise/security. Maybe the unemployment figures are not as bad as were led to believe?
  25. muttley9050
    Sorry bud haven't had a second to breathe lately, let alone get down the workshop with a camera. Will sort it this week:)

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