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gobbypunk

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  1. Nice brown oak a d yeah what a finish Cool as Happy Christmas
  2. Hi 10/12 would do me fine but it needs a surface planner as I have the big 25 inch wadkin but it needs stripping down and rebuilding as it will only go to two and a half inch so I dont want to be totaly without a planner
  3. Hi I saw something similar on ebay but it had a stand ,handy bit of kit
  4. I am still looking for a planner thicknesser just cant find one near enough in my budget its doing my head in
  5. Happy for you sounds ace would you do my logo in a big board if I send you a picture .
  6. Hi so at 4/5ft wide I would need a new bar and chains happy to spend a weekend in devon when the weather gets better but with my gammy ankle I dont want to spend 2 days in the rain ,so happy to come and mill it for you but like everyone else said I will need a machine to move the slabs and an extra pair of hands PM me if you want or phone me on 012t8 863705 or 07449736569 Cheers Mark
  7. Hi is that a laser cutter ,how big is the bed and how thick will it cut ,so cool do post some pics of what is capable of when you do get it set up
  8. Hi You are so right Mr Twig ,I have some stunning air dry spalted beach if you want any
  9. On my old one it had a torque setting but my new one dont seem to have will have to have another look in the manuel
  10. Hi on the new hm130 max theres a diagram that shows you where it needs to be but it will not stay there.
  11. Hi Lez you are right but I wrote that just as I got the butt on the mill ,but the mill is vibrating a lot and since I changed the band the tension will not stay the big handle was vi rating loose ,any ideas
  12. Almost maxing out my new mill took some getting on there but loving it
  13. Cool thanks its always the same when you have the cash for something you cant hardly find one but if you aint got any cash you will see loads
  14. Hi so I have been looking for a small 12inch planner thicknesser for a while I only have £350/400 to spend on one and just cant seem to find one on ebay there are loads of ads for this Lumberjack stuff anybody had any used anything by them I was thinking about maybe getting one of their planner thicknessers Thanks Mark
  15. Nice one Bill love the books hes sat on reminded me of a stack of books I did for a school how long did it take you .
  16. Yeah I think both a stop block and some nice greenheart log stops that fit in the square holes I have cut the tops off those metal ones a few times ,Thanks Guys as you can tell still finding my way with bandmilling
  17. They only seem to burrow into the bark layer not like those even more orrible ones I always find under the bark and into the sapwood on Oak similar looking but the ones in the Oak look like a cross between a ragworm and a big maggot ,I did move as many as I could without killing them .
  18. Hi guys does anyone have an idea what these are, they love the monkey puzzle found loads of them when debarking it ready for milling Thanks Mark
  19. I got shut in a steel cupboard and wheeled in the bake oven when I was an apprentice so the next day I welded the mateys sreel toecaps to the bloody steel cupboard half way up the door he was there for ages with a grinder and ended up with a small bit of door stuck to his boots he then shut me in the pit a rolled a car on top I cut the legs on his chair in the break room it just went on and on you had to have your wits about you thats for sure ,I love a good prank
  20. Well said K ,Hi Lez I got myself a static phase converter its the biggest one the make I think its 9k it cost me a grand but it runs up my big thicknesser fine ,the only thing is I wish I could have got a rotory converter I did a massive amount of reading and talking to people the only diffrence is the static converters will only run 1 machine at a time and the rotory ones will run 2/3 machines at a time but thats reflected in the price give Pete at Transwave Converters a call he is a font of info number is 0121 7084522 Cheers Mark
  21. Yep Chainsaw Bars Co.Uk ,Rob is a font of info and a totaly nice guy
  22. Hi Khriss I have a big old curtin but its so F###ing heavy that even dragging it along the yard is hard work I need something easy and quick to deal with , on tuesday I was cutting the last of some WRC for the small Est I look after and I took the top off one of the log braces a stupid mistake it cut all the way through it ,got home and my box of ripper 37,s was leaning on my back door,got monkey puzzle and walnut lined up next
  23. Nice build you should be chuffed ,whats it like inside have you clad the walls .

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