Macpherson
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Me too, I've often wondered what some of the overgrown garden ' Cedar-ish ' type trees actually are, often got strong contrasting colours when split and had grown into monsters planted in the totally wrong place.... likely sold in garden centres as ' dwarf '
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Yep I'm sure that's what it is, thanks.
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When the trees were standing that was my guess and when I milled it and saw the colour I thought the same but it's just that other cedar I've milled in the area smelled more like aftershave. I've got some other stuff to mill that if I only touch with the saw I get the strong smell of Cedar even although it's been lying so long that the sapwood's mush. But as you pointed out WRC is really a Cypress I guess maybe that explains the difference in smell....I just find the ID of these type of trees difficult as there seem to be so many variations on a theme. Thanks.
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Yep, looking at my pics again I don't think it's Leylandii, too reddish.... can anyone suggest a more likely ID, cheers. It had / has an unpleasant acrid smell if that helps.
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I milled two of them recently, or at least that's what I thought it was most likely to be, I'm not good at identifying the various types of these trees.... They had been stand alone trees in a garden and they'd had lower branches removed as they'd grown to give a view from the house, they were headed for the firewood pile but I managed to rescue them and was pleasantly surprised with the colour and figuring and got some very nice boards, so it will probably end up as garden furniture as it's fairly durable.
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If you can view it from a distance and it has some space to the side, simply take a stick, stand a distance away from the tree, whilst looking at the tree hold the stick in your field of vision till it matches the height of the tree then tip the stick over as if the tree was being felled, note the point on the ground where the top of the stick ends up and pace it out 👍 no idea about apps if that's what you need, sorry.
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Thanks, by some miracle I've long since seasoned my main hardwood firewood reserve stack in three rows 4 ft deep, 4 ft high in a space 24 ft long for which I had a 1 off top tarp made specially for. So exactly 3 cords of tightly stacked 12 /14% ish mc mixed hardwood for the proverbial rainy day..... I'd always wondered exactly what a ' cord ' was but it would seem that I knew all along 😄
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Could've done you a threesome last year, my neighbour trapped a big male and 2 females [ live ] that were at his hens... there's no shortage of them up here 👍
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There's an antique dealer by the name of Robin B'astard
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I bought one years ago with the mill but nearly everything I've milled has been green, maybe it's day will come if I get some very dry logs
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Interesting, do you not think the gravity feed's able to deliver enough oil, I'd have thought it would.. although I've no experience with the very large set ups I've seen you use, cheers.
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Yep, I think it kinda depends how much the guys at the dealer can be bothered... at mine they go out of their way to help. The last time when I wanted a couple of gaskets I would've had to by them by the dozen so I think Stihl might be trying to have a clear out.
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Hi, I recently managed to get new original parts for my 1980's 012 from my Stihl dealer, they had to be sent from Germany but were surprisingly reasonably priced....... maybe you've already tried that...
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Or maybe I have and just didn't realise it, there seem to quite a few now that I know what I'm looking at
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D & L swing blade sawmill... Looks very similar to the Peterson wonder who copied who, for some reason I'd not come across either of these till today, don't know why.
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That's a right nice piece of kit you've got there, just googled Peterson mills and got a good video of one of their mills being demoed. Junior Peterson - Small Sawmill with Big Features by Peterson Sawmills PETERSONSAWMILLS.COM The Junior Peterson is small portable sawmill manufactured by Peterson Portable Sawmills and is with big features and...
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Yeah, last year I bought 2 galvi barrows of different makers, real good price but both got early flats and when taking off the wheels / tyres the rubber was total shite and paper thin as were the tubes and the wheels rims and axles were just total crap.... it's back to Haemmerlin for me.
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I have the granberg as well and find it ok, it wouldn't be hard to knock up a back rail to prevent any movement if that became an issue, cheers.
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It only takes 1 poisoner and the whole interdependent community suffers but unfortunately the problem is deeply embedded in certain folks mindsets 👍
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been there, done that☺️
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Well I suppose the easiest to hand way of getting an idea of hardness would be to run a decent chain file over various areas of the bust sprocket and comparing what kind of cut you get in the steel compared to say the top of a tooth on your chain... the more of a bite the file gets ...the softer the metal, if it skites off leaving a shiny mark on your file.. the metal could be hardened [ very rule of thumb ] We're at opposite ends of a working life as I'm past doing it for a living 😂 all the best to you 👍
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Fair size that is
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That's more or less my setup but I don't do it for a living, the GB tip just looks too wee, it would be interesting to know it's hardness as a clue to whether it's deforming and fatiguing or just snapping, cheers.
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Just not enough material between the ID and the root of the teeth, I noticed from Ben Scott's pictures that the GB bar is only about half the width at the tip compared to the Stihl so it will have much more teeth and more material to the sprocket. I know that my Stihl 36" bar is an option with a ' Y ' suffix which denotes 1 or 2 extra teeth 12 in total I think, can't remember which..... how many tips have you gone through ?
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My mates Norwood has this problem I'm fairly sure but it is ancient-ish...as you go down the cut it goes through phases of vibration which you can feel in the carriage as a side to side wobble and the finish on the board reflects this...when I've used the mill it bugs me but he doesn't care. After a bit of an inspection I put it partly down to the carriage rollers and or the rails which are fixed to concrete and possibly an over vibrating engine but as it's generally only used for rough timbers he's happy.
