Johnpl315

Confused by this talk?!

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Found a few bits of sweet chestnut with quite an interesting grain. Not huge lumps but might be good for turning?

That could of been me a few months ago, I was searching for info before I splashed out

Yes it is but all sawmills seem pricey for what they actually are! Hopefully over the years it will pay for itself

I haven't really used it that much yet, it seems good, similar to a lucas mill. It's powered by a chainsaw so not the fastest but it stays sharp a long time so that saves time. And I can load, assemble and use it by myself as a one man operation.

I have a saw called a turbosaw warrior. Not many over here, they are made in New Zealand. Have not made much money with it so far!

I have just recently purchased a portable mill, it's great, but I think you will find it extremely hard to compete in the softwood market. If I could get the timber for free I would give it a go but I doubt I would pay for pine. Oak is the best bet as far as I know, if you can cut good quality oak beams you may do ok but it's still hard to compete with imported oak. Sorry if I am sounding negative! All depends what timber you have access to.

I am getting more concerned I have worked out they are from one oak tree I milled, there are about 40 net bags of the off cuts. If there is no way to contain them I am thinking burn the lot as there are the actuall beetles I have seen crawling out!

Ah great, thankyou everyone. Worth hanging on to then

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Thanks for replys so far! It's deffinitly not sycamore. Here's some more pics with the bark.

Hi, thankyou all for replying. I have just been doing some organisation of my timber stack. I was scraping away some rotton sapwood and I found lots of wood wormy type things. I am pretty sure there are actually some of the beetles around as well. I have bought a 5l tin of cuprinol woodworm killer. I am fully painting all the milled timber I have. I am also going to paint any exposed timber on the house as I know they are in my logpile as well. I am slightly gutted because I have only milled two oak trees, the first one had significant heartwood rot which I didn't discover till after I paid and this one has the woodworm. I paid top dollar for both trees and end up having to sell the wood off cheaply. Ah well, maybe third time lucky! If I could just ask some more advice, if any of you got the opportunity to mill an oak, but you knew the sapwood was infested with woodworm, would you still buy it? And how would you stop it speading? Only take away the unifested bits? I wasn't really thinking and took all the off cuts in net bags as firewood. Now I know they are full of woodworm but besides having a big bonfire with 40 net bags of logs I don't know how to get rid of them

Oh yeah, could be! Good shout.

No, sorry I could of given you more info, I know it's definitely deciduous hardwood, feels very hard, very dense. Will try and take a close up of the bark later.

I am sure this is true however there is only one short strip about a foot long but a couple of inches deep, annoyingly right in the centre of the beam! Maybe I will knock it down to a 7x5

Hello, Anyone got any ideas what type of tree this is from? I planked it up a few months ago, it's been sitting in the garage. Trying to work out what to do with it. Thankyou

That would work on some of the pieces however for example I have a 7x7 beam, I would have to take at least 2 inches off the whole length. Seems wasteful to loose that much timber?

Hi guys. I have just milled out a large oak tree and got the timber home, and then discovered it has some wood worm. I have a bit of a phobia of wood worm taking over the world. It is only in parts of the tree, generally sapwood or very close to the sapwood. I am pretty new to milling but was hoping to sell the timber. However I don't want to get a reputation for selling timber with woodworm. At the moment I am thinking I will treat every single piece of timber. Then I can sell with a clear conscience, bits with visibal holes I can sell cheaper, I normally aim for £20 a cube but maybe drop to £15? Is this fair? And advice would be massively appreciated!

Thanks for the advice guys. Sounds like the firewood is not to much of a problem. I have just milled out a tree and found some more woodworm, bane of my life! I will take it to the milling forum

I keep a can of woodwork killer handy and if I see any signs anywhere I nuke them however this is not really possible with a logpile.

Not that close however it's in a wooden log shed. I am also slightly concerned that if I sold logs with woodworm in the customer could comlpain if they spread to wooden items in there house or garden.

Oak, its only in the sapwood

Hi guys. I recently noticed some woodwork in some of my logs. I have a slight phobia of woodworm, I worry they will spread and damege house, furniture, my milled timber etc etc. But I guess if you have large piles of untreated logs lying around it's inevitable you will get some woodworm? Any opinions? Thanks

They look great. Do you have a plan to market and sell them?