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  1. se7enthdevil
    you might be too late, two are spoken for and one will be mine and the other i am going to see if a friend wants it. if he doesn't then you can buy it.
  2. se7enthdevil
    alder turns orange very quickly so you'll know if its that or not. i'm going to suggest lime but if you give me a close up of the grain it might help.
  3. se7enthdevil
    i only realised this a few years ago when i bought a beautiful bit of iroko off ebay and was pleased with the postage considering it was 18" square and 2" thick. when i received it i thought i'd been had as it was nearly half the weight of normal iroko but was definitely iroko. a few days later i was talking to the sales guy at whitmores timber and he pointed out to me that you don't have heavy timber at the top of the tree. i had a lightbulb moment (and said to myself "doh") realising this would be true of all species that get to any appreciable height.
  4. se7enthdevil
    there will always be differences and to be honest i'm only quoting what's in the books rather than my own measurements. where abouts in the tree did they come from? remember wood from the top can weigh alot less than the wood at the base.
  5. se7enthdevil
    the 1" is to be for the bottoms of buckets so the boards need to be watertight.
  6. se7enthdevil
    can you not then condense the water coming from the wood and sell it as some sort of wood whiskey?
  7. se7enthdevil
    ok guys, looks like i'm going to get two extra books over here for retail.
  8. se7enthdevil
    still doesn't explain why he was not returning your attempts to contact him, surely he can still type or text with the other hand.
  9. se7enthdevil
    when kiln dried to the same mc, yes... ash is about 44lbs ft3 and sweet chestnut is about 37lbs ft3.
  10. se7enthdevil
    thanks for the offer ian but that sounds too wasteful for my purposes, anyway, i need more than a few.
  11. se7enthdevil
    dogwood was my first thought too. what cornus species do we get in this country?
  12. se7enthdevil
    seasoned sw chestnut is around 590kg m3.
  13. se7enthdevil
    could you not use their weight given by kiln dried timber charts? for instance, european ash is about 680kg for 1 cubic meter at 12%. if you are working in feet then it's 35.31ft3. wet wood is going to be about 25-30% more in weight.
  14. se7enthdevil
    can't help with the fungi but if the judas tree is coming down then i'd be interested in the timber.
  15. se7enthdevil
    good to know that gollum but i need it in 1" and 3" thicknesses. if i get a request for furniture then i'll be calling. there is no hurry for that log john i'm just putting feelers out there. alec, i need it for tiny little table skittles but don't need it today, in the future is ok. do you have any now or are you offering to mill me a log? i should specify that they need to be 3" needs to be squares and the 1" needs to be boards of 12". put it this way guys, i really like robinia and think that it is vastly under utilised and i have aspirations of turning some into furniture and some in to skittles.
  16. se7enthdevil
    still perfectly good for cladding, benches, bird feeders, fences, fence posts, gates and anything exterior.
  17. se7enthdevil
    just get it hot real quick and let it burn for 10 minutes, if that hasn't got the draw going then you have a problem... we have a small capacity box of only about 1 cubic foot but i stuff it full of paper cardboard easily lightable timbers (if i've no kindling) and a block of proper wood, i leave it 5-10 minutes till its embers and coals then fill it with logs.
  18. se7enthdevil
    you can use it as a kitchen top so long as you don't mind lots of dents as in between the grain the wood is very soft.
  19. se7enthdevil
    looking for 1" and 3" milled robinia and wondered if anyone has any?
  20. se7enthdevil
    makes excellent outdoor furniture as it's very weather proof.
  21. se7enthdevil
    they look great. i find it somewhat ironic that you are carving a tree, out of a tree.
  22. se7enthdevil
    durable timbers would be things like robinia, larch, cypress, eucalyptus and wellingtonia.
  23. se7enthdevil
    see if you can get someone to mill that log, it's too good to log up...
  24. se7enthdevil
    that looks a beauty, thanks mate. can't wait to use it.
  25. se7enthdevil
    i am interested but i've got nowhere to put it...

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