bobh
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Thanks Rob Joints are always a problem for me. I can cut stuff up but putting them back together again is a pain:biggrin:
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Anyone like to put up any photos of their jointing Especially like the sound of the index bolts, are you covering them with a plug or just recessing them?
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As Big J said there was a thread about this the other day. It had enough info on it to convince me I don't need to 1/4 saw anything until I know a LOT more about the actual milling
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Now that's just mean :thumbup: Will teach em a lesson though
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just answered on behalf of my o/h
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For someone like myself who doesn't climb and doesn't always understand the techniques involved this has been an education. Thanks
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Once saw a guy wreck his windsurfer on that moor - hit a gate post that was just underwater. Course, I didn't laugh at all :biggrin:
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Hi all Getting seriously let down by my usual supplier (no names) :thumbdown: Who do you lot recommend?
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Know this road really well, used to live in those parts. How's the house by the bridge, underwater yet?
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3 years on - RIKO A11 still perfect...
bobh replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
Great that it's working well. Long term reports are really useful. So what would you change on it? -
Good tip Was using a chalk line the other day but one of these would be handy as well
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My O/H has just started using my saws, cross cutting firewood mainly. Time has come to get her own set of PPE (can't keep borrowing mine) Her grandparents have kindly offered to pay up to £500 for this All suggestions welcome, obviously don't have to spend it all!!
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Wasn't it the famous five? Or am I thinking of something else.
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I always try to get loose, that way they are usually long enough in the body.
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Guy up the road brought his saw to me the other day with the same symptoms/cure, only difference being I had a really good laugh at his expense and don't intend to let him forget it :biggrin:
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Got a fully rigged 2 man fishing kayak, trying to work out how to get a small outboard on it as well
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ms250 has been withdrawn
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Is it a tree house? :001_tt2:
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Rob's your man
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Sounds like some great advise there. Think I will just have to try a few different things with my sharpening and do a lot more milling, no substitute for experience. Will rest the saw a bit more often I reckon and try to train myself to sharpen when it needs doing rather than when is convenient. Jon Glad you liked the extraction method, was a bit of an experiment but doing it this way meant I didn't have to rely on anyone else. 4.1m planks on a 2 foot barrow looked a bit weird though! 400 meters down over the field to the transit, worked a treat. Rob - looking forward to the video, they're really helpful
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Just what it feels like Spud Certainly giving the GHS pot and cylinder a really good work out! at one stage yesterday I used a full tank in one cut, but then I really should have stopped a while before and had a sharpen up
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Thanks for the replies all Looks like will be 6" with a 1" gap All I have to do now is mill 2 more 4 meter lengths, done 2 lots already. Tracked barrow has been a godsend on this job as the timber is up the hill quite a way. This is 7x1" boards and 2x2" All 4.1m long and up to 20" wide BTW spent a LOT of time yesterday just admiring the scenery
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Thanks for the replies Seems to confirm what I thought. Alec glad to hear you found spruce hard on the gear as I thought it was just me, had milled oak and elm before with no problems and was expecting to fly through the spruce. Keep on at your wife about the sharpener, they're great but I wasn't using it in the field this time as it would have meant taking a battery up the hill with me and I had enough gear with me already. Must pay more attention in future. Agree with you Rob, it seems amazing that there isn't some form of easily used and easily carried tool on the market, business opertunity for somebody.
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Hi all Been milling some spruce recently, large boards, 4m long and up to full width of the mill (30" bar giving about 24" cut) Been having a problem with the vibrations when I hit a knot. I am 100% sure this is due to my sharpening as it wasn't doing it on the first couple of cuts. I suspect that I may have taken the depth gauges down too far, would this cause vibrations? Any thoughts? Set up is MS650 with a Oregon 75RD chain. Some photos
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Building myself a log shed, 4 meter square, single pitch roof, 7' at the front dropping to 6' at the back. Doing this as cheaply as possible so have used old bt poles for the uprights and I'm milling the rest of the timber from some big spruce. So far I've milled about half the boards I should need, most are between 15"-23" wide. These will be ripped down on a saw bench. But to what width? I was thinking of 6" boards with a 2" air gap but not sure what the best combination of board/air gap is. What do you guys think?
