Macpherson

How fat? and where's the whistle? 😁

Yep, I watched a documentary on this area of tectonic activity some years ago where much like the Hawaiian islands are being produced by the mantle slowly moving over a weak spot in the crust, or something like that?... this area is similar in that there has been a series of well documented seismic events heading along a major fault East to West and the next big one [ which this probably isn't ] is predicted to devastate Istanbul... we really have evolved on and do live on the skin of the rice pudding.. ... back to jokes, pls.

You can effect a proper repair with it at a low temp Alloy or Mag.. in fact any metal as long as it's non ferrous, if going to attempt this it's worth having a look at various YouTube vids first, cheers.

Aye, intricate / tricky for sure but not impossible, a dremel would probably be needed to prepare the mount before and dress the weld after, anyway could have 3 goes at it. Would need a pic to judge properly whether I thought it repairable or which 1 of the 3 would be easiest.. if an Alloy weld I'd probably do it with the steel tube inserted in the casing to prevent it blowing through. It might be a good candidate for trying this HTS 2000 which I've successfully used in many delicate repairs.. just a blowtorch needed so little risk of damaging the casting so you can have as many goes as it takes till you get it to your satisfaction. ALUMINIUM REPAIR (low temp, NO FLUX) HTS-2000 braze,welding,solder FULL 18" rods WWW.EBAY.CO.UK HTS 2000 will successfully join all aluminium alloys, it is the easiest, fastest and strongest brazing rod ever developed! Requires No Flux. Low Temperature. Between 380°C - 408°C...

Could it not be welded... and strengthened at the same time ?

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Feck me, it was only gettin started... I'll need to find the rest of it 😊👍

Don't really have rats, except for 1 particular neighbour [ cokehead ]😁... But the whole of natures little companions seem to be vanishing at an exponential rate, birds at the table, small and larger mammals { numbers and species ] not to mention next to no fish in the loch, that have been declining fast for a number of years... What's going on ?.. it doesn't bode well for the coming generations who are likely to have not a single clue as to how nature operates or what used to be normal, cheers.

All I can say on the subject is that up here in the North West I've been noticing a vast reduction in insect / moth populations over the last decade or so kind of culminating last summer with next to no midges.. while most will delight in this it is still potentially very ominous for most other species and indicative of a massive change in what used to be normal. Not that long ago when I was young it was impossible to drive / ride anywhere fast without accumulating thousands of insects on your windscreen / visor... but not anymore, still almost no one notices... ..How much longer can natural life on the planet continue whilst we as a species ignore the poisoners ? Not to mention many different species of trees looking very poorly if not dying ? .. other than of course Ash, which may be soon a thing of the past👎

Aye, I find just about 1kg into 5 gallons hot makes a saturated solution that prevents just about all fungal staining [particularly blue staining ] and insect attacks in milled lumber while it's stacked outside seasoning with only a top cover.. I've stuck with this formula since I first became aware that it was the solution [ pun intended ] to the problem and I've never noticed any crystals growing on anything.. but I'll be looking more closely now, I'm not milling commercially but I'm always keen to learn from others as the more info you glean.. the less the frustration with nature, cheers.

I wasn't being critical in any way and the colours are great.. but as you no doubt know there is a very fine line between usable and completely gone with Birch, and I kinda forgot that you're milling for a client, Cheers.

I milled some reasonably big Birch recently with the Alaskan, but not quite wide as big as your log... It was the but of a multi stemmed tree, about 2 feet wide in total and it had been left standing for only around 6 months in the summer [ wet west coast ] since I took the rest for firewood, it was nicely coloured and very woolly to cut and tended to clog in the kerf due to the fast rate of rot in Birch. Most of my firewood is birch and I've long since learnt the hard way just how quickly it rots.. but just how nice it is if cut and stacked really fresh and is one of the woods that benefits most by being painted with a Borax solution in order to prevent fungal degradation while seasoning.. I can see from your pics that the colours in your milled birch indicate you just saved it from mush 👍👍 My next one is about the size of yours, and I'll mill it before I chog up the rest for firewood and it should be creamy white, Cheers.

Aye, I was kinda wondering what vehicle it was... all it's electrics must have been underwater and it wasn't just a quick dip.

Wow, so not really a cheap housing option if you were to add up the on costs and compare to similar over the life time of a mortgage on a small flat.. Not only that, but I'd imagine many other unforeseen / unpredictable costs... there's no doubt ' and I say this with personal experience ' that boats of any kind are just a hole to throw money in.. perfectly fine, if you've got wads👍

I'd have given you that all day.. always wanted a 3120 but might be too old now🙄

Interesting, these mooring fees are more than double the council tax for my small flat in Glasgow which will for sure have more floor space than a barge.. as a curiosity do you still pay council tax on top if you're floating ?

Well you're pushing it now with this him/her shite on a thread about a possible dodgy chain🤣

I've got that gun... I wish I had the one that does work🙂

Yeah, not that odd really in that the local company near to me in Glasgow that I alluded to earlier in this thread supplied Greenheart piles and made repairs to and built new piers all up the west coast Highlands and Islands. The company ' Murrays ' probably closed down about 30 years ago around the same time that a large local timber merchant ' Robinson Dunn ' also closed it's doors.. they had a large autoclave timber treatment yard as a part of their business. Back in the day the lumber was brought up the Forth and Clyde canal in barges from Bowling on the Clyde to Anniesland basin in Glasgow which was where the above timber yard was based. Gilmour and Aitken is to this day a very large timber yard with an amazing stock of all sorts of lumber from around the world... the last time I was there was to buy Siberian Larch but walking through the place it was hard to concentrate for being surrounded by exotic timbers seasoning in large stacks, not to mention stacks of full massive trunks waiting to be processed, cheers.

Hi, I only have an Alaskan so if I need 4, 5, or 6" x 2"s for example out of something that I've milled I simply slice it to size with a big Makita.. it works a treat, cheers.

I can't really argue with any of that, but I think the analogy of the crabs and bucket is very good and applies to most of humanity... not just the Scots,[ although history shows them to be turncoats and small minded grassers] but I'm surely surrounded by thick tw$ts in everyday life ... by feck they don't half reap wot they sow.. and I for one am past caring, cheers.

No Idea on availability but as for sharpening I don't see it being impossibly difficult although I've never tried it. I get TCT table saw blades sharpened frequently at a very low cost which I'd guess is done on a jig with a stone as are all other TCT tools so presumably a chain would be easy to do with a disc type sharpening jig with the correct disc As @openspaceman said it may not be a pleasure to sharpen.. but not impossible, after all there are many engineering too that are TC tipped and they all get sharpened. Any chain that's put through dirt will sooner or later be scrap but presumably you'd be trying to avoid that. When I was young there was a pier building / repair business with a local yard so there was a lot of Greenheart kicking about the area and at that time I had no idea of it's true value and used it for many different things including firewood🙃 never really thought to much about cutting it .. I just cut it because you couldn't split it... It was it's weight that stuck in my mind at the time. And to the OP, I'd give it a go with a circular saw just to see... maybe taking multiple shallow cuts.. if it eats the blade you can always get it sharpened. Cheers.

The Stellite tipped bands that you mention will no doubt be the best solution for milling this long since seasoned timber... but alternatively perhaps if milling with a chainsaw it would be an ideal opportunity to use Stihl Rapid Duro Tungsten Carbide chain. From previous experience seasoned Greenheart is very hard on [ destructive ] any ordinary chain, cheers.

When I was young a local company in Glasgow had the contract to supply Greenheart piles for all the costal pier renovations in the west coast highlands and islands so whatever you get to mill will likely be reclaimed from that era or stashed away unused lumber. it's definitely the gnarliest, hardest on teeth timber I've ever encountered by a long shot. 👍

Wow, what a buzz that must have been👍