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Big London plane butt for sale - NR32 area
Jamespepperpot replied to Stihl123's topic in Milling Forum
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Obviously, there are usually 3 groups of people. Those that are convinced either way and those who are unsure in the middle. Personally I find that it's only the people in the middle that are worth having discussions with. My girlfriend who was a vegetarian has no problems eating venison. Neither do her family who were anti hunting previously. So far no one i have shared or cooked venison with hasn't failed to come round to it.
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I dont agree, that's just the typical fieldsports britain/BASC mentality. There are enormous amounts of scientific backing and ecological reasons why deer are managed in the UK. Its something that's never been so important, especially in the south east. Hound hunting has no backing or real purpose, its just a weird charade. The majority of non hunting types I've had discussions with understand the need to manage deer and foxes. They just don't like the pomp and nonsense that comes with certain types of fieldsports.
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I think the problem with the UK and its relationship with hunting is that its always been associated with the upper classes and something thats not available to everyone. I don't think the general public are entirely against things like deer stalking which put food on the table and from most of the conversations I've had with people they are easily convinced that its a perfectly acceptable thing to do if you're planning to eat it. The idea that the shooting community stick together and be wary of things like fox hunting getting banned is a little bizarre. It doesn't relate to real hunting in the slightest. If we want to carry on being able to own firearms and go hunting the community needs to realise that the general public need to see the positive side to these things. The problem with fox hunting and pheasant shooting is that it puts the whole of 'hunting' in a bad light so clinging on to these isn't doing us any favours.
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Doesn't quite work the same when its powered by kW. I don't own that mill any more but if I was ever in a situation where I could have my own yard I'd probably look at a similar mill. Maybe the LX250 which doesn't have a cantilever head.
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The difference being you will notice a dull blade on a 14hp mill a lot sooner than on a more powerful mill. My electric LT20 could have had a 25hp petrol engine and that only had a max of around 60cm with the guards removed. I think what I'm trying to say is that if you want to mill large slabs all the time its the same with most machinery. There is no replacement for displacement. Power is everything when it comes to milling large hardwoods or resawwing dried timber and if thats something the OP is thinking of doing thats my advice. The LT40 with the Diesel engine I used occasionally would chew through pretty much anything and wouldn't slow down but it was a bloody noisy thing.
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I did a 2 day resawwing job for a joiner at the Chatham dockyards. He had a load of 80cm+- wide elm boards cut in the 90s that he wanted flattened and squared up. Its fine to do on a bandsaw but you need to use a lot of water and keep the feed speed right. A lot easier when you have electric feed. I used 4 standard woodmizer blades over the two days. The problem is a lot of mill manufacturers are producing mills with large cutting capacities but with motors and components that aren't really up for milling max capacity all the time. A Woodlands hm130 claims a cutting capacity of 30 inches but has a 14hp engine whereas a woodmizer lt40 has a 28 inch capacity but uses either a 26hp petrol or a 35hp diesel engine. I have used Woodlands hm122, a lt40 and a lt20 so can only compare these bandsaw mills
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Yep, better of having something to load the mill with rather than trying to put hydraulics on it. I had a static/electric LT20 for a few years without hydraulics but I was using a tractor and forwarding crane to load it. Most logs can be rolled with a good size cant lever when its on the mill itself. Getting the log to the mill is usually the hardest part. The time saved from hydraulics is only worth it if you're using it all the time and the good thing about having a second machine is you can also use it to move all the sawn timber when you've finished - Especially if you work on your own like I used to.
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These cut round tenons, you would use an auger bit to cut the round mortise for them. A forster wouldn't work unless you were using a jig to hold the drill at the perfect angle as, like you said, they are not directional.
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N'awww thats cute, maybe if you ask Steve he can print you out a certificate to put on your fridge.
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By claiming its OTT it obviously triggers you in some way. Let's see a selfie of all you and your colleagues then Johnson, otherwise you're just claiming things without any proof. I apologise for any oil rig worker discrimination, perhaps I should go back to PC school
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I wasn't making an argument just saying it seems you're offended by what you see on TV. Its just interesting that for the amount of arb related work you do it seems you take up a lot of bandwidth on here. It dilutes the forum. Talking about soul mates it seems like you have your very own right wing love triangle going on ?
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It seems like you're easily offended by seeing different races and sexualities on TV ?. You prove very little by claiming that everyone else's opinions are garbled nonsense and just continously throw around your favourite buzzwords like 'woken. Its boring mate and so are you. You just repeat the same rhetoric over and over on this forum. Maybe you should make a new forum called oilrigtalk.
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A tremendous recovery, perhaps the greatest america has ever seen.
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I have been following Leo's channel for a couple of years now. His competence and ability to think so far ahead is impressive. Its one of the only things I get excited about watching every couple of weeks. The chap he gets to mill the Live Oak in Georgia is a real character, his sawmill is bizarre but effective creation thats for sure.
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My worry about these strategies is that if we continue to sanitise and distance everyone meaning we all stop getting colds flus etc etc what happens to our immune systems? As I kid I remember getting colds quite often and even in my 20s through winter getting ill every now and then. I thought I heard that people who had got other coronaviruses recently, like colds, may have some levels of immunity to Covid-19. Surely if we carry on down this path all of our immune systems are going to become weaker and in the future more susceptible to new viruses..
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3/8th is about 8-9mm wide roughly but the kerf might be slightly more. I usually account for 10mm because of the finish from a chainsaw chain. A narrow band bandsaw mill is usually around 2mm. It will cut seasoned wood fine with a sharp band, they'll just have to take it slowly and use a lot of water to keep it cool.
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That is 90% firewood IMO
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Planer thicknesser shopping - advice needed!
Jamespepperpot replied to john redmond's topic in Woodcraft Forum
I have a spiral cutter head on my 12" planer thicknesser. Its well worth going for something with one of those if you can, the quality of the cut is unbelievable - especially in difficult grain. They don't require setting and the teeth have 4 sides on them which you rotate when its dull. Apparently each side lasts 4 times as long as a normal planer blade but I've not owned it long enough to find this out yet. Its also very quiet when it cutting. -
Just finished this knock down trestle style oak dining table for a client. I milled this oak from a tree in their garden a few years back. I put bread board ends on it to keep the top flat if I moves seasonally. The tusk tenon design allows it to be taken apart and moved easily which was part of the criteria. When the tree was originally milled the table design was different which meant I milled it into thinner boards, hence why the frame is made from wood that has been glued back together.
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6m long piece of oak I milled today for a client with the Lucas and Alaskan combo. It was a dead tree which was amongst a long line of old Yews.
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Yeah I get that on bent knotty pieces it tends to cause the saw to bog out but I just fiddle it through those bits using the winch as a pivot point. Personally I dont mill any logs without it unless they're really short or very narrow. Everyone finds what works best for them I guess.
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Get yourself a winch on that mill, makes chainsaw milling a whole lot easier on your back
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You can be quite a dick at times Andy and it's a bit of a shame as you're clearly quite a intelligent guy. Instead of using that positively you seem to use it to berate others on this forum almost daily. It doesn't seem like a post goes by where you're not trying to antagonise people with sarcastic emojis or just by being rude and assuming your opinion on everything is final and the only thing that matters. This is a forum for everyone not the triggerandysopinionabouteverything forum. Perhaps you should try be a little bit nicer to to people and it will not only make the forum more enjoyable but it will probably make you feel better. I think you have an addiction to arguing with people on the internet.
