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Not seen it as an option when looking into it but someone more knowledgeable could know different.

Could be done mark but I think you’d have to come up with a method of clamping or securing one end of morticer as you cut out material, Mind you I’m open to suggestions as every day is a learning day so to speak. I’ll take a look at how that might work out tomorrow. To be honest by end of play today and utilising a template to mark up the cut areas the router method was working out to be quite quick and leaves a decent finish.

Lol well the mrs says my sense of humour is shite too ?‍♂️ just been doing a bit of research for a while and cedar seems to be the preferred wood, mind you I’ve been in a few in Finland and am pretty sure they just used common local timbers. Decent day for outdoors stuff so steady away cutting for the new log store, did a fair bit of chain morticer work and been trying a few different methods for the tenons. One in pics was done with a saw for the shoulder and a router and a long cutter to remove most of the material which seems to be working well with the freshly milled Douglas. Better than my efforts with a chisel for sure.

Can’t go wrong with Douglas Andy for a multitude of jobs. I’m after the cedar for a possible wood burning Sauna build

Cheers J Was hoping you’d chip in as I recall on a number of occasions you’ve commented on what decent stuff it is to work with.

Long gone now. Trying to get from outside lane on A1 to hard shoulder coasting with no power steering or brakes and smoke pouring out from under bonnet etc was enough for me. Plenty of grunt for sure but a very agriculture engine. Was shit at towing, way too soft on back suspension.

Hi looking to try and get some Western red cedar saw logs to mill, Not looking for a huge quantity as only needing to get enough sawn to do a 8x6 double skinned structure. Based up in Aberdeenshire but can get storage for logs down in Dunfermline. cheers

Similar experience with a 53 grey import from Cyprus, final straw was timing chain snapped at 70mph resulting in engine grenading with it being an import Mitsubishi didn’t want to know. I owned a 99 Nissan Terano 2.7td followed by a 03 3.0 Patrol and both were brilliant motors, easy to work on and virtually trouble free. The patrol was an excellent towing vehicle too.

Yep very well cheers, guess I was overthinking things to an extent and spending too much time looking at those perfect drawings showing how to mill logs for max production.

Less of a headache for sure ?

Tried this at the weekend and to be honest rather than worrying too much about it on the initial cuts I just bashed on and as you say got the biggest square beam possible. Worked out great and made the task of seeing what you could get out of the log much easier. The pic is the result of 3hrs work plus ended up with about 2 cube of off cuts for firewood

Been listening to Inhaler a lot lately and going to see them in Newcastle soon, no denying the lead singers lineage but still a good sound.

Commercial grade UHF radios available nowadays are more than capable of lasting a whole shift ie 12hrs and are IP rated so weather is no issue. Most are available with headsets/boom mic built into ear defenders too as opposed to just speaking into a mic for people in high noise areas. Make we use the most is Motorola, not cheap but absolutely bulletproof. The best option may be ex hire stuff as they are often upgrading to new kit and selling the old stuff.

Some nice upgrades, Auto lock for the mill head height adjustment would be a nice if retrofittable. The limit i find with a standard 130 is not the size of the mill but the ability to move the logs once on. Maybe some form of log handling/loading options might not be a bad idea but I guess all of a sudden the whole budget mill concept is then priced out of the equation.

I’m afraid it’s far from nonsense. I can assure you I can afford one if I wanted one but after spending plenty of time behind the wheel of Land Rovers whilst in the forces and owning an ex welsh water 110 plus most recently seeing first hand the experiences of friends/workmates with Range Rovers and Discoveries you could not pay me to own one. Mind you I’m 6ft 5”so not really much room in defenders for me. Can’t deny that the RR/Disco are not amazing motors when running but the bills that can come with them are crazy. I’ve just asked one of the guys for evidence of what’s been done to his Disco 4 after 10 weeks in the main dealer. On the other end of the scale I ran a 2003 patrol from 13000 miles up to 157000 without a single glitch and it was still on original clutch when sold. just added part of the bill off the Disco 4 I mentioned, 17 plate with 45k on the clock, total amount was not far shy of 20 grand. And that’s not jackanory type stuff. I’ve left off the owners address and vehicle details out of curtesy.

Hi Mark What set up did you end up going with in regards the ramp and winch etc.

Not a cheap tool for sure, but I looked for ages for a used one and the costs for those were what ended up convincing me to go new. End of the day I reckon/hope at least 50-60% of the value will be retained if it’s kept in good order.

Hi Andy Makita 7104 110V yeah it does a cracking clean cut. Very flattering. We had set out everything previously and marked the position of all steel below the top beam but to be honest I was so focused on using the tool I had a total brain fart ref what was marked up. Missed the threaded rod more by luck than anything else ??. Chains for it are super pricey so very lucky really. Today was only a play with it sort of day and probs a bit over the top for a bit of fence but it looked tidy once done and the lads mrs was well chuffed so happy days. All the timber with the exception of the top beams was milled and dressed by us which in a way is quite satisfying.

The result of bottom end failure on a workmates Range Rover.

First time out with Chain Morticer, thought we would do something easy to get a feel for it. Lucky not to trash a bloody expensive chain ?.

You got the winch set up on ??

Cheers J To tell truth it’s at the bloody hard work to mill stage now. Probs gonna mill it up to like you say the standard easy to use and produce sizes with maybe a couple of larger ones and see what comes from that.

Lol thats my kind of stuff ??

Any images of the sort of tables you mention??, I’m no carpenter so it would need to be simple stuff ?. My woodwork tends to be of the rustic or chunky robust style.

Cheers for the reply Matty No me neither ref trying to make money from it, just I’m sat with these logs now and rather than cut and store random sizes for possible later use I’d rather get something out of it. My line of thought ref oddball sizes was the others ie 4x2 etc are all easy available off the shelf so to speak as opposed to 4x8 or 8x8 ?‍♂️?‍♂️. Who knows !!. Might stick an add on gumtree and see what response I get.