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Pretty sure most mill blade guide rollers are the same diameter, depth is different depending on what blades you are running Decent video showing how easy it is to change bearings in them too
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A bit hot for being on the mill all day, but at least the wind wasn't blowing the sawdust into the eyes 900m of 4x1 fence slats and 200m of 3 x 1 1/2 ready for collection this evening
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It was being used as a storage shed/ getaway place for the kids but now we've renovated it and will put it to work as an off-grid holiday cottage.
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Air dried. Lucky enough to have had a very drying east wind for the past ten weeks to finish them off just in time. The cottage has no central heating and is has 3 ft thick stone walls so they should stay at the 14% m/c they are at at present for some considerable time. It has a fireplace at the other end of the open plan floor, but in reality that shouldn't make the place so warm that we'd be worrying about the worktop warping. Think if it was going to warp it would have done so long before now.
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Was asked early last year to mill some douglas fir to be used as kitchen worktops for a bothy project this year Quite happy with the way they have turned out.
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Might seem a lot to sticker but you'll get a lot of stickers from edging your flitch boards, probably a lot more than you will need. I've got 1200 4.9m douglas boards that I milled last year, to be used as cladding for a shed this year, that have been stored on site in three stacks with a rough 3x2 frame around them covered top and 1/3 sides with black polythene. They have been stickered every 2nd board & 10 boards wide.......any wider and the forklift forks won't lift them. Boards are fine. Do watch out for sawdust sticking to the boards......I've now taken to using Vortex blades to make dusting down the boards a lot less tedious
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Over 40cm is considered oversize for the BSW mills.
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Got proper 3.7m larch mill logs coming this week and they are £70/t delivered. That's cheap for mill logs at the moment, but only so because it's oversize stuff that the local BSW mill doesn't want and there's not a lot of it
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Paid £24/t + delivery for the larch. Phone your local FLS office, or if there's no one there ask one of your local timber contractors who to get in touch with.
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Aye, I bought 150t of larch from forestry here as firewood, it came in 2.1m lengths and over half of it was over 30cm ted. I milled a few posts from it and put an advert locally on facebook............turns out I'm needing more firewood now for the winter. At the price I paid for the larch it made sense to mill it and get an instant return rather than have to wait 9 months for it to dry and start earning some coin. Another 150t of the same stuff at the same price would great
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1.8m 100x25mm rails, they're £3.50/board. About £750/m3 Dunno what that is in old money, but it doesn't feel like enough when logs are under 30cm top diameter
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Constant demand for 4x1 fence rails at the moment. Good size larch keeps things going nicely, but it gets tedious when the small logs take their turn on the mill. Next investment will be a twin blade edger! milling 4x1s.mp4
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Milling some very wavy oak for the past couple of days. Not great quality but for what it's going to be used for it will do fine. Bonus here was the midges were beaten away by the very strong wind.
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What engine is running it?
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the Woodmizer EG100 starts at £4600+VAT for the 240v one and I was quoted £5300 for the petrol engine one. the EG100 is a decent edger
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Light wind blowing up the loch from behind me. Great day. Tomorrow's not looking so clever, milling oak in a midge infested glen
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Nice easy job. Ripping 150m of 6x1's into 450m of2x1's. Helps when the weather's good
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I'm too fond of hydraulic handling to go back in time to the days of spending more time handling than cutting
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Pretty sure it has a sliding carriage, log goes onto carriage, clamp it firm and then push it through the blade on the bed rollers.
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I am the same, if I'm not getting at least £750/m3 it's not worth my while milling it. Folks who don't buy timber from anyone keep telling me I'm too expensive, but when I look at my order book I'm told a different story.
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I've built similar with green Douglas Fir grown on the west of Scotland with much wider growth rings than your timber has. Go for it. Plenty good sheds still standing from decades ago when kilns were only used for pottery.
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What happens when wee jimmy comes in and asks for two slabs four up from bottom of stack here, and one from three from bottom of stack there? Or do you sell complete stack only?
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Wood at roadside is stacked at a forest roadside with access to lorries. Price does not include haulage. Google "timber hauliers" in your area and give one of them a ring to see what price they charge. Up here (nw Scotland) timber trucks are normally £75/hr+VAT based on min 2hr hire. Word of advice when buying sawlogs, always check out the quality of the logs with your own eyes. Especially true if you are buying smallish diameter larch/douglas where you are wanting the heartwood. There can be a huge variation in how much heartwood there is in a 3.7m log taken from the base of a tree to one taken from further up. As the old lads here used to tell me.....your eye's your guide and your pocket's your merchant
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Interior flue pipes on a multi fuel stove.
bilke_user replied to ianaitkensmith's topic in Firewood forum
It does, and that's being polite -
Seasoned Beech that has "spalted" Beech as firewood.
bilke_user replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
I split about 30t of big blown beech every year for the estate big house to burn. Spalted stuff burns well and drys just as well as any. Rotten, i.e spongey, drys well enough and burns well enough but doesn't give much heat
