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If you’re sharpening long chains, ie 36” bars or longer I really like the Granberg pro-sharpener. 12v, takers the rakers down as well. For chains under that length unless really damaged I just use a hand file.

Good man! Yeh, the trunks getting rung up must sting.

Ohoh, you're only gone and done it now.

Any updates on this? I sent it to you in September so I assume it must be done by now?

Ive read different, but you could well be right. Looking at that last slab of yours it looks like it was 'brown oak' thats also decayed. there are two main forms of brown rot in oaks, and at least two other forms one very rare the other localy common. Fistulina hepatica is the desired one, the one foresters know to be the true brown oak, as fistulina hepatica feeds mainly off the acids or more specificaly vinegars and actualy alters the wood very little till very advanced decay. Laetiporus suphureus is the more difficult to work version of brown oak, more stripey in colour and tends to cause a lot of medullary splitting on drying as the fungus uses this pathway for colonisation strategies. the turned item here is most likely this latter fungus also known as the sulphur polypore or chicken of the woods. the other two forms of brown rot in oak are daedalea quercina a common deadwood consumer, and Piptoporus quercinus the oak poly pore, a very very rare beast. i can supply images for this page of all described if desired. Brown Oak | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwood) WWW.WOOD-DATABASE.COM

Ive gotta stop cutting logs like this up for firewood then.

Looks like lots of soft pockets though?

Yeh, rot and ring shake.

That actually looks more like rot I suppose, Ive certainly never milled any oak that far gone. Do find there is a market for that?

Well, will be interesting to see what it looks like milled. Do you think it will have actual rot pockets or just be 'brown'? And I thought the brown came from a fungus? Not rot?

Nice. [emoji4] Much call for Cherry down your way? You 'brown Oak' certainly seems different than the 'brown oak' IO get up here. Will be interesting to see what that looks like milled. To me that looks more like rot setting in. Most of the Oak my way looks like this.

Who said they where?

Strange, still works for me?

What do you mean gone? Is all the logs now sold?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1140944026340834

You mention its Oak from the middle of the forest, or at least not near the edges so I cant really see metal being an issue? You also asked for Road-side prices so I assume you mean the farmers getting it to the road-side for you? If its road-side, straight, not rotten and no shake then Id chance my arm at £120 a ton for the bits you mentioned that will be straight. For the other bits Id offer him, as Rough said, £40-70 a ton. 1, to keep him sweet with a chance of getting first refusal on any more thats coming out at a later date and 2, You'll maybe be able to mill some bits out of it, mantles etc that will soon pay for itself and leave you with a bunch of nice firewood. Its all a case of supply and demand. If you really want some Oak and this lot is clean then maybe bump your prices up a bit. If you're not that fussed then chance your arm at a lower price.

Because he's a domestic cleaner and does not have a clue as to what he's talking about.

Common Uses: Boxes, pallets, crates, plywood, framing, and other construction purposes. Sounds about the same kind of quality as Spruce?

Did you pack the ladder out all along its length or just support it at the ends? I tended to have at least 4 points of contact between the log and ladder then tested the gaps to see if there was any movement. If there was more packing and wedges went in. Some slats of wood screwed down with long wood screws are then needed to secure the ladder to the log obviously on the rungs and below the flush of where your Mill will slide along. Just remember to set your first cut below the depth of where your deepest screws are. I found that out the hard way.

That is a cracking piece of Cherry! I know what you mean about the resin.

Cheers, thats exactly the price I had in mind as well. These will be 20-30" Diameter. He's made no bones about them being felled for ADB.

About bloody time!

What are folk paying these days for Ash Saw Logs? Ive been offered die straight and very clean Ash logs but would be interested in what I should expect to pay?

Leslie would have it knocked out for £500

Cough cough again, I must have caught Covid .