trigger_andy
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I’m not being funny but you’re jumping around from keeping nice timber for yourself to it’s a charity ‘guv. If “they” cannot pay tree management then perhaps see if a company will manage the site for the timber( which is a dirty word around here) so it would have to be prime timber for them to clear/tidy your site. Basicly, you’re getting sweet feck all. Still interested in your “ charity”? I think your an opportunist. Hoping to make a quick buck off this group. Hopefully you’ll prove me wrong.
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You really seem to have the wrong end of the wedge (constantly) you claim it’s a charity yet you also indicate you cherry pick the best pieces of timber. So which is it? It really seems like you need to forget about milling (as you’re such a busy family man) and as you clearly want the charity to do well you’ll get all the timber you think has value roadside and make the charity (not you) a potential profit. How does that sound?
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Sounds like the goalposts are constantly changing. -This happens for numerous reasons. The best thing for you to do is either do it all yourself with your railway buddies and use the timber on-site. Or pay to gave the site managed. This softly softly half way/no money approach is gonna get you no where. Unless you're equally happy to devote the same hours you expect a stranger to devote to your project as he might expect you to his. I think I sussed you from the get-go.
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Yet you've offered no actual help? So whats your point?
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I actually agree with that. Our semantics will surely differ though.
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Just to pick up on this point. Im £360 a day plus bands/Chains. There is very little negotiations. Im sure you appreciate your boss in your own day job does not ask you to negotiate your daily wage day in day out and the stress that would cause? Just a thought.
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Then I suggest you spend a few hours a week reviewing the past posts in this forum and the links they may take you to. When I said I spent a week looking through the threads here I clearly never mean 08:00-17:00 Monday to Friday. Im sure you realise you dont have a monopoly on being a busy family man. What I did was spend 30-40 minutes in bed before lights off 2-3 times a week over a long period of time digesting the learned info here. You seem keen on getting a book or something to help you in your quest for knowledge right? If that book does not exist then spend the time you clearly have set aside for reading said book and look through this forum and the many others around the globe. Obviously you dont expect other time and cash strapped folk to come down and spoon feed you right? That would be a silly assumption on my part.
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Are you doing the work for a share of the timber? Would be good to clarify so that anyone that takes the time out (time that you're not willing to bother spending looking through this forum) can then either take all your share of the timber as a training fee, or at least a good percentage of this.
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So now you respect the views of these past PM's huh? Cameron = Tory so you automaticly hate/ignore anything he has to say. May = Tory so you automaticly hate/ignore anything she has to say. Major = Tory so you automaticly hate/ignore anything he has to say. Blair = A Labour stooge. A Tory in Labours clothing to many if not all Labour supporters. Also a War Criminal. Brown = A streak of sheet that was so inept he flogged our gold for pennies on the pound and only got the top spot by default. So are you now saying we should hold these knob jockies views in a higher esteem? Because if thats the case you've a lot of humble pie to eat.
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Id imagine the whole piece and Id be cautious about thinking you've hit a goldmine. Wood turners are notoriously tight fisted. They actually think they're doing you a favour taking it off of your hands. There are of course exceptions to the rules. You could also spend some time researching what blank sizes are popular and cut them to that size, store them correctly so they dont split and sell the good pieces as and when a buyer wants one or two. Ive also milled what I thought was gonna be a fantastically burred Elm and it was just gnarly. Had this a few times now as well. So although it shows all the signs of Burr it might not actually be so. Another option is to mill it up.
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Have you looked through the previous posts in this forum? There is a plethora of very informative posts. Might we worth spending a week reading through them all. That’s what I did. And YouTube, watch loads of YouTube videos.
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Keep in mind Cherry will warp and split like a SOAB. Strap it down and weight it too. Won’t stop it but might minimise it. The last Cherry I milled was 20-24” diameter. Even weighted with tractor weights and dried slower in a barn the slabs cupped and split badly. I’d mill street 2” minimum with the hope of getting 1-1.5” usable slabs outta each.
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Got a 3.5t Trailer full instead of a days wage for milling 6 nice lumps. After he had enough for a table he said keep the rest. [emoji16]I said I’d pay the days Teli-Handler cost so he was happy about that. But not as happy as me. It was a bit criminal to put them through the Bandsaw as they where quite oval and the narrow side almost squeezed through the 24” Cant. But it took me from 08:00 till 17:00 to mill them all, even with a Teli-handler. Would have obviously been much longer with the Alaskan.
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Ahhh ok. [emoji4] Milled some real nice Oak a while ago. Lovely figuring and little sapwood. Was not sure if thats all he was referring to.
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Ive heard you refer to Brown Oak quite often. Is that just regular English Oak or something else entirely?
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The 130 max is a bit of a game changer. 30" live edge slabs would be great.
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Id have thought unskilled labour was digging ditches or cleaning, ie paid from the neck down. You'd have to be at least somewhat familiar with a Chainsaw, teli-handler/forklift and operating a Processor and potentially very basic maintenance? Whilst not in the skilled labour camp I agree you're not gonna pull someone off the street to do this work unless you're happy to spend the first week training them up and fixing/paying for their mistakes. Someone with the above skills is surely not gonna want to work for pennies are they?
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Macrocarpa milling - timber properties and uses
trigger_andy replied to Liam88's topic in Milling Forum
Thats the one I bought. Needed a few extra spacers and Rob sent them out for free. I have/had a Chinese Ecomill but one of the Legs is a genuine Granberg. Fits fine and works great. -
I did processor work for £10 an hour for a while. For two reasons mainly, 1, I could hire the Avant off of him on the weekends for cheap and 2, I rent workshop space off of him for cheap as well. I'd not even consider doing that otherwise. Id be wanting £120 a day minimum. Another incentive to work harder was a free bag of logs when we made the target for the day, which was not always possible, especially with hardwood.
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Gobble gobble gobble.
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Macrocarpa milling - timber properties and uses
trigger_andy replied to Liam88's topic in Milling Forum
The kit I got off of Chainsawbars was cheap, basic and backwards compatible. It works with the existing brackets. -
I cant attach links via the app if thats what you're trying to do Dave?
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Macrocarpa milling - timber properties and uses
trigger_andy replied to Liam88's topic in Milling Forum
Do you have the quick release handles for the legs? Makes adjusting much quicker. You're done within 90 seconds. -
Nah, it’s trash TV. I’d no bother with a licence if it was not for the wife and kids. All my media is on-line. Netflix, Amazon, HBO etc.
