muttley9050

I'm no expert mate, just learning, but If I was close id mill it where it sits and it would fit quite neatly in me van. No lifting equipment needed.

It does have a large band of sap wood so I'm sure popular thinking would agree, but I like milling little sticks like that.

I'll check its still there later mate.

Another thing to consider is that you can't really mill this till October time so you May have to sit on it till then

Looks like a reasonable stick, if a little small. If you can find someone nearby who wants it I would say its worth £40-50. Would be a shame to log it. I would take it but your a little too far away. You really need to post this in the milling forum so the right people see it. You May get a taker. Agg221 isn't far from u.

Definately worth something to the right person, a picture or two would help. It all depends on the amount ad sap wood on the log, where are you located?

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Remember. In that order.

Breakfast in bed, star wars t shirt, and a bottle of beam. I must say my 3 year old is really good at cooking a full English.

Is be interested in a 2" board (full width, no pith or 2 from quarters) and a 3" piece that wouldn't need to be full. I could come and collect as soon as its milled or could even come help mill it if you needed. Let me know if your up for selling some, or if you need a free hand milling. Could bring my biggest mill but its only 6" bigger than yours. James

Best festival there is. Used to go most years for free running the low impact living initiative stall on the greenfields. This is the way to do it. The public camping fields can be a little crowded to say the least. Unfortunately I can't see glasto giving lili any more free stalls so on the look for another blag. What does it cost you clive to go as as a trader in greenfields?

The guy is Andy Reynolds, bit of a ledg round here. He used to run courses for us on off grid solar pv before the country went feed in mad. Not too many people interested in that course anymore thanks to the feed in. He really is a very knowledgeable guy. Best Not to start a conversation if your in a hurry though.

I think the op is saying that it would be easy to get a cheap job done but he would rather a recomendation from someone on here, Not that he wants a "£10" job.

Oak that size would generally be sold by the tonne as firewood, as alec said, there's too much sapwood and after two years outside there likely to have little strength left. I can't think of an application that i would use these for, so to me there value is around £45-50 per tonne delivered.

I'm sure we got one kicking around in the forge similar ish to your picture. I'll double check tomorrow and see if its still there. We were given it to do something with and never got round to it.

You need brick acid, proper brick acid, not the crap they sell in DIY stores. It's restricted sale these days like creosote so have to blag ya builders merchant as I believe most of there policies are account sales only. Failing this there is one other option. Obviously if laid in sand(uncommon for slate) turn over, dress edge if needed,and relay and point. If not its possible with Indian slate to remove the top layer with an old trowel and hammer. I had to do this once when I was rather careless with a disc cutter. You have to be super careful. If you get it wrong its terminal

No experience of top handle saws but do of Titan. There definately a budget brand and the tools feel cheap in your hand, saying this they do work. Definately won't be as robust as the stihl but if your gentle it May be ok. I would reccomend finding one in a shop before buying to test quality.

Clive suggested in a similar thread something I think I Will try on similar projects. Drill a 2" hole directly through the centre to allow for shrinkage. When dry redrill to true hole and fill with a turned oak plug.

Interesting, id like to see how you came up with the 60% of firewood is imported figure, how can you possibly quantify all the native timber that is burned?

Dead wood naturally combusting/lit in the wood it died in is c02 neutral, anything else has a footprint of some sort. From what I can gather Daniel your bright idea to save the world is this. "we've really messed up this planet burning oil, best thing to do to fix it is try to burn as much oil as we can, and hope some city dwelling engineer solves the problems for us" This is pretty moronic.

Well said mate, maybe a little more succint than me.

You see again you speak assuredly about things like you know all about them. Globilization is Not the only way there's plenty of small things everyone can do. I.never once suggested everybody should live like me, it was you who started to belittle my way of life. I don't comment on how you choose to live in the smog, that's up to you, I don't mind if you continue to live in cloud cuckoo land theorizing that there's plenty of oil to keep guzzling. I merely commented that perhaps if everybody acted a little more responsibly and tried to consume a little less we May not be in this posistion. I would be very interested to know how you think global warming and more importantly peak oil are just a blip that we Will simply overcome. I predict mass starvation and Marshall law as the distant future we are creating. Maybe try to take some responsibility for your part in this and don't just assume that someone else Will solve all the problems you help create. It is you my friend who lives in a bubble, a bubble where everything is fine and there's no need to address your own consumption. And for the record I'd be happy to send you some fleece so you can create your own low impact clothing without the need to herd sheep in your window box

Don't tar me with your brush and only comment on things you understand. I buy my clothes responsibly too thankyou and yes "jfyi" some are homemade. We keep sheep and use there wool. I ain't a saint and don't claim to be, but my limited intelligence allows me to differenciate between necessary international trade and unecessary international trade. It also allows me to see a slight difference between importing a small pack of ballons for a child's party( BTW there's a ballon manufacturer about 20 miles from me my friend) and filling a container ship up with logs. I don't live in a bubble, I just choose to try and leave as little a footprint on this planet as I can so future generations can enjoy. This option is open to everyone Not just the elite!

Yeah again you don't know what you speak of. I live in an intentional community with over 30 people. We are fully heated with wood( including hot water) have solar thermal for summer hot water, produce over 60% of our leccy through pv. Source all our wood responsibly and only use gas for cooking. We also all share one washing machine , one cooker etc etc. This equates to around 8 tonne of wood per year per family. So hows about you look in the mirror my friend, if you get a big enough one you May see a magic carbon neutral container ship behind you. And jfyi (see what I did there) we don't burn damp wood. We air dry it naturally to 20% max.

Oak is fine, not sure about chestnut but if you do use it, try to keep your sweat off it! I've been in a lot of butchers shops and never seen an ash block. Always beech or ash ime. Have read before that u shouldn't use spalted wood for food safe things coz of the possibly toxic spores but I don't know really.

Maybe, but I go to most of the thame farmers mart sales, and had some proper bargains. As this one is almost all specific forestry you Will either get the right crowd or you won't.