TuscanPhil

eBay often have 'sell for £1' which is when I tend to do any of my sales, so no 10% loss to eBay, just any PayPal fees for anything being sent. I tend to put my email in the photos so people can contact me easily for any 'out of eBay' deals.

Oh, and if I bid and win, I'll give you a shout and COVID permitting you can show me your set up etc (if you are happy to).

Well, I'm just getting started 'playing' with a Chillaskan mill and my 41 year old chainsaw, so once my oak (and cherry and fir and anything else I can lay my hands on) are seasoned - it'll be those. I'm not too worried about max width as there is a high likelihood of my boards warping so I might just make them narrower boards (via a track saw) so there is less waste when planing them, then join them together to make whatever larger surface / boards I want or need. I'm busy reading another forum with woodworking ideas and projects, so nothing in mind at the moment. Anyway, I thought it was all about "he who dies with the most toys wins...."

Without wishing to highlight a possible purchase to anyone else (dammit, no other way to do this) how does this one look? It's not too far from me, though I'd need to clear some space in my garage... Charnwood W582 Planer Thicknessr, used WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Charnwood W582 Planer Thicknesser, Max working width 260mm, Max thicknessing capacity 180mm. I brought this new approximatly 16 years ago. You can get new blades for about... Or possibly this one (but a bit further away from me) Axminster 10” Planer Thicknesser Modle No.AW106PT WWW.EBAY.CO.UK <p>Axminster 10” Planer Thicknesser Modle No.AW106PT. Condition is "Used". Very well looked after machine. Comes with a change of blades, nail/metal detector and manual...

I've not had any other issues since our FB conversation a few days ago -been fine an d I've been messing with different ISPs my end. Whatever you did has sorted it for me (for now...) ?

This sort of thing? https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/coconut-oil/sainsburys-organic-virgin-coconut-oil-330ml Heat, melt and rub in with a piece of kitchen paper?

Do you have a link for that please? The Amazon link in your post doesn't take me to anything

I'm watching this with interest as I may buy something similar at some point - what's the difference between the two? What can one do that the other can't?

Peat, reviving this thread from the past - are you still looking for milled Poplar? I'm getting to grips with my Chilaskan Mill and will probably soon be attacking a large Poplar I have that's been down a few years. Any specific sizes you are after? If I can get enough out of it, I'm currently planning to use it as cladding (with preservative of course) on a garage rebuild next year.

No plans for them in my ownership - currently on eBay, ending tonight (might be asking too much - who knows?) One is 4', one is 8'8" and one is 11'5". I could always try and mill them into smaller 'slabs' and sell them as 'floating' mantlepieces??

Hi, I have 3 old beams that were 'holding up' my house prior to some renovations last year. I'm trying to identify what wood they are, if possible. I was told (by my builders - who are no tree surgeons) that they might be Elm, but being around 90 years old and 'worn', I'd like some other well informed guesses please. I'm guessing all 3 beams are the same wood - I've only shown pics of the small one but have pics of the other two as well.

Might be a silly question but how sharp is your chain? How are the rakers? When did you last put a new chain on it?

I'm not sure where you get a £60 set of blades from? That's the price difference, not the price. I'm sure if the Northern Arb blades were no good there'd be lots of feedback on here - and there isn't (from what I've found - or not found as the case may be).

Global Recycling at £190 ex VAT (I'm private so have to pay the VAT) - M300 Set of knives (£190.00 ex. VAT) - Global Recycling WWW.GLOBALRECYCLING.EU Jo Beau M300 replacement knives or Northern Arb at £140 ex VAT - Rotatech Chipper Blades To Fit Jo Beau M300 - Northern Arb Supplies WWW.NORTHERNARBSUPPLIES.CO.UK Browse and shop Rotatech Chipper Blades To Fit Jo Beau M300. Genuine Rotatech Jo Beau type blades. £60 (inc VAT) price difference between the two.

? No please don't do that! Do you also sell spares blades for JB M300 by any chance?

There's your answer - ask to see their calibration certificate when you show them yours.

yeah, I'm pretty much there - where best (cheapest) to buy?

I think I need new chipper blades for my JB M300 - does anyone know the min width that blades can be sharpened down to or is it just a case of 'when the adjustment runs out (or can't be adjusted enough)' then they need replacing? Is Northern Arb the best/cheapest place to get them from? I'm only a home user - about 10 hours per year, so I'm not looking for super duper made of unobtanium last a lifetime megga hard blades, just blades that will do. I have a local saw blade sharpening place to sharpen them to the correct angles (all 4 faces) and my 'old' set were sharpened but I think they were pretty much on their last legs then.

My A4 sheet of 1.5mm cork gasket material arrived (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254504193278 - all £3.25 of it) and I successfully cut out a fuel cap washer but sadly it didn't solve the issue - more 'fault finding' revealed that it is the duck bill check valve that has failed (in fact it was just a mushy mess) within the fuel cap, just behind the brass breather filter thingy, so I'm on the hunt for a replacement (or two as the oil cap also needs one). Seems I need an Oregon product (an equivalent part) so I'm hunting for a (reasonably priced) Oregon 07-004 Duck Bill Valve. Amazon have them for around £7.85 but I'm as sure as I can be that there is a cheaper source out there somewhere! The Homelite number is UP06862. Any parts spotters amongst you know of a cheap source?

Just to pick out this bit - I'm surrounded by the stuff! Well lots of (poorly shaped) oak and narrow leaf lime, aged (and poorly) cherry and a few other odds and sods - about 4 acres worth that I need to slowly over time get back into better shape!

Thanks Andy! Great post! To answer some of the points raised: First go at milling, so it was just to see how I got on. I was only milling a reasonably small log, so wanted to get a few boards out of it so didn't go for 'fat' boards. I was actually aiming for 1.5" which is what was set on the Mill, but with it being my first use, I now know to 'calibrate' the measurements to get a size that I want rather than to rely on the graduations on the Mill itself. The boards generated from this log have no specific use so they will likely end up as 'rough' garden furniture. Ref the flattening - how do you go about this? Is it a case of going over them with a power plane, or rigging up a router sled and doing it that way? I'm guessing a belt sander will be too slow but good for later / finer finishing? I don't have (or have access to) a planer thicknesser and I'm guessing my local timber yard (https://nickstimber.co.uk/) wont want me dragging 'gash' boards to their yard, upsetting their machinery settings etc for their commercially produced timber. As it stands, I'm just looking to 'cut my teeth' and find out what works and what doesn't. Once i know more what I'm doing, I have a large Poplar that, if I can do it successfully - need to get a 36" bar though, might be used for weather boarding on a wooden garage I have, a large Doug Fir that I want to mill beams from (so the centre square section of the log?) with a potential to use it for building a new wooden and brick porch on our home. They seem to good to be cut into firewood (which I can use plenty of as my central heating is biomass). Once I know more what I'm doing, I have a roughly 6-7m long (has a fork in the last 1m), max dia 45-50cm oak trunk that could be used to make some (hopefully) nice boards with - again, no end use planned for them at the moment, but maybe once I learn more about this whole thing!

Oh,forgot to say, boards now resting on my pallet floor of my open sided wood shed, stickers in between boards, stickers lined up vertically, heavy weight (old 10 or 12" gate post about 4' long) on top to try and keep them flat. Did I ask - are they dry yet?

If by expensive you mean 30p for a rubber or cork gasket, then yes, I'll happily throw it away and spend £500-£800 or more on a 'new;' saw - or I could just fix this one and when it breaks catastrophically, bin it then and get something else if I've still got any wood to use it on? So far the saw has cost me (outside of the purchase price) a carb overhaul kit - £3.13, a carb inlet boot (from America so 50% of cost was postage) - £19.79, a spark plug - £2.52, and 3 new chains (2 for the 30" bar, one for the 18" bar) - £38.30, so it hasn't exactly been expensive in spare parts (yet). Tried an O ring, too sloppy, so I tried 2 O rings, one inside the other - still didn't work! It might come down to that - I have some old cycle tyre inner tubes that might be fuel tolerant. It's just getting neat circles cut out that will be the tricky bit but I could try a scalpel blade in a compass. Maybe somthing from the local plumbing supplies might fit...?

About 3 and a half usable boards (1.75" thick) out of my 'playing' today. The top and bottom edges I can chop up and use to make Bird Box fronts with, (or just stick 'em through my biomass once they are dry) or something else... The 2 widest boards will probably end up as rustic benches around the garden, the slightly less wide boards might be used to make the end supports or something else... Oh, and are they dry yet??? 2 more pics!