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  1. se7enthdevil
    to be honest it doesn't look unlike some eucalyptus species but for a true ID i will need a good quality close up of the endgrain so i can see the pore structure. any odour from the planing the wood???
  2. se7enthdevil
    well kept quiet, that is until you switch it on...
  3. se7enthdevil
    having finally been able to get a look at this tree as it's coming into leaf it appears to be a cut leaf variety. i will get a picture of the leaf when it is fully formed in a couple of weeks.
  4. se7enthdevil
    it was not just that event as it's looked dead from the middle of january when i was passing it on the bus. i'll have to get some photos in a couple of weeks when everything is fully formed.
  5. se7enthdevil
    i've obviously caught it just emerging. i'll try to get a pic of the branches in a few weeks to give you a better idea. i've never seen anything like it, have you???
  6. se7enthdevil
    here it is on google street view looking very lanky next to the bus stop. it's in the middle of a whole street of whitebeams. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.479101,-0.6063325,3a,89.5y,138.56h,99.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbwBr3luLKo6_o8sSJdmOrg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
  7. se7enthdevil
    certainly looks like it might be the barberry but lots of the notes i can see say that it's evergreen. this one is not and looked dead a month ago.
  8. se7enthdevil
    this twig is a foot long and there were lots (about 20) on another thin twig off the tree. most of them terminate in a pointy end and some of the smaller branches had mor spines than leaved branches as they were younger than the branch i took this off. has only just come into leaf and actually looked dead earlier in the year. very skinny street tree only 15-20' max and the bark is fairly smooth.
  9. se7enthdevil
    hi all, found this growing next to windsor castle and am properly stumped. what in the blazes is it???
  10. se7enthdevil
    i'd say so. pity there was no colour in it as boxelder can look stunning.
  11. se7enthdevil
    quartersawn will always sell better in my opinion as it is more stable and looks alot nicer in most species (especially oak) and should season better too.
  12. se7enthdevil
    you don't need to strip the bark off you just mill it on site and straight line edge the boards. i know i'm in the hippy area of we should use all of the timber rather than waste it but i don't like to see lovely timber like elm wasted...
  13. se7enthdevil
    split it now or you will need the mother of all splitters. cracking firewood, some of the best i've had.
  14. se7enthdevil
    that fist video has the most annoying twat talking us through it... he calls it a "borsch"...
  15. se7enthdevil
    controlling disease i can understand but the wood is not infected with it. it's just under the bark.
  16. se7enthdevil
    i would not know how to put it back together again. also on the back there is a load of gears and belts for the two fed speeds in the thicknesser that run from the motor that is housed in the base to the block at the top and the feed rollers underneath and i would never want to fiddle with them as they are too complicated.
  17. se7enthdevil
    why was all that lovely wood just shredded???
  18. se7enthdevil
    tell that to cedar then, gave off more heat than any other timber i've burned and i've burned tropical civil engineering timbers that are much heavier than ones we get on this little island.
  19. se7enthdevil
    most likely ash then.
  20. se7enthdevil
    ash...
  21. se7enthdevil
    this is the sucker i have to shift. it came out the factory in 1957 and is deceptively heavy.
  22. se7enthdevil
    that's a thought, i'll have to look into that.
  23. se7enthdevil
    there are a few things you can do. 1. bolt the lathe down and add lots of heavy bags of sand or weigh it down as much as possible. 2. buy a nice big heavy lathe that is all thick cast iron all over and in the region of 350kg plus. 3. reposition the work so it's as centered as possible on its C of G but this is not always possible. 4. turn at a very low speed. 5. use another bit of wood. finding the center of gravity is easy once it's round. let it roll on a flat level surface and when it stops rolling around strike a line vertically on both ends and this will give you the correct plane to find your center on once it's back on the lathe.
  24. se7enthdevil
    the center of the bit being turned is not always the center of gravity in the block.
  25. se7enthdevil
    possibly but in all honesty i don't know what that is. any pictures?

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