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  1. Jamespepperpot
    Thanks, like James said it's three boards joined together as I didn't have a wide enough board to make it out of one piece. It was the clients idea but it turned out ok, the glue line isn't perfect and it can look strange joining wide boards of burry oak. I use a router sled set up on wider boards to flatten them. I often join boards together as they can be more stable than single wider boards because the grain direction faces different ways and means as the boards move seasonally they don't all move the same way. Heres a kitchen island I made last week out of three boards joined together. They were all flattened with a router sled then the edges were done on my planer.
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    Thanks chaps! Not too bad, sharp chisels and a good router. Also marking out with a knife rather than a pencil helps a lot
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    Made this coffee table for a client over Christmas. Got a pippy/burry oak top, brown oak legs and normal oak rails. Tried Some fancy strengthened lap joints and dovetailed blind half laps as I wanted to use some joints I’ve not tried before. Milled all this wood with an Alaskan years ago when I first started chainsaw milling. Pretty chuffed with how it turned out!
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    I’ve worked for Wolf and Georg for a couple of months this year. Great guys to work for and the work is pretty good compared to most domestic arb in the UK. The weather is nice too
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    I always make a mistake when someone’s taking a photo of me [emoji9]
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    My thoughts too, if you cut through the tension side of the hinge on a side leaner/wind direction it’s always going to go sideways. Even with a quick pull it’s likely to end up not going where it’s desired. Saying that I’ve felled pops with slight side leans and the whole stump has failed or one of the buttresses tears off with the hinge.
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    From what I've seen it goes a more light brown colour with a very faint hue of pink. Jo who I milled it for was kind enough to let me have a couple of boards which have gone in my VIP timber stack Thanks, I'm in East Sussex near Tunbridge Wells
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    Yep, London Plane. Was an incredible tree to mill up. Felt very blessed that day!
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    Its red oak from a garden near Sevenoaks. The client has a big stack of it in his garage that he is planning to turn into floor boards when it is seasoned! It’s pretty hard wood!
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    Been a busy few months for me since I got my Lucas mill. Here are some of my highlights
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    Nice work, I quite like ash as a timber. It’s pretty hard stuff when it’s dried out. I have a board in my workshop that’s about 8 years old saved for tool handle repairs
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    Couple more pics. These boards are going to make some really epic furniture one day..
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    Had a great day milling with Jo and his guys today. Cut some nice wide slabs from the centre and buzzed a whole bunch of 6x2s and 6x1s out of the top and bottom. Plane is unbelievably pretty!
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    Chees Will, Have sent a text to the OP
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    Good work, smells amazing that stuff. I have 35 boards of it stack outside my garage. In the summer the smell floats around the whole garden
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    Bet there would be some killer grain patterning in the large union near the top. Where is it?
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    It was a poplar, full of nails and screws as I found out shortly after that!
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    A few recent ones
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    Cheers Jon, very kind!
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    I have a day or so free most weeks that I wouldn't mind filling. Looking for work around the Wadhurst/Tunbridge Wells area in the South East. Competent in rigging using most devices such as GRCS and stein bollards. Have 30,31,32,38,39 and FMOs in digger and tractor use along with experience using forwarding crane trailers and other implements like mulchers. Advanced first Aid. 5 years experience, lots of felling and using large saws. Pretty handy with a sawmill too. Cheers James [email protected] 07545846646
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    I love robinia, its one of my favourite woods to work with despite being so hard. I recently used it to re handle a hammer I bought at an old tool shop and also made a buddy of mine a golf ball display rack out of it. The quarter sawn faces on it have some incredible grain patterns
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    Indeed it's not just young tractor drivers, I witnessed a farmer in Rotherfield in a mid size tractor with a roller on the back completely cut a corner and run a young ladies bonnet straight over. He was 50s/60s and didn't seem bothered at what he had done. Gave his details and drove off leaving me with a shook up and crying lady and her car where the engine had basically fallen out.
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    As long as it's in their own time what's the problem? You wouldn't criticise someone that sinks 3/4 pints after work every night and that's much worse? I bet some of the most successful people in the world smoke joints after work
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    Is it a Thuja or a cedrus? Cedrus makes beautiful lumber but thuja cladding is probably a more sellable product. Thuja is ok for furniture type stuff but only if it is slow grown. Ive tried using fast grown thuja for stuff before and it doesn't finish very well as when sanded/planed the summer growth tears out and doesn't sand flat because its so soft
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    560 runs a 325 chain and the 562 runs 3/8th. The 562 also has a different shape filter housing. Not sure what else is different but can't imagine its a lot. I'd stick with the 325 chain as I'd imagine it cuts faster

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