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Some of the fancier Bandsaws have a debarker that run in front of the Band to save bandwear. Mud/grit drasticly reduces the bands life. If Im milling a solid 08:00-17:00 day I'll go through 3 blades of I dont hit any metal. Two Blades on a normal day. If finish is important I'll change them earlier but if its fence posts, rails and boards I find it not so critical to change earlier. With the Ripper blades you can push the Mill that wee bit extra and the blade handles it no bother, just go by the engine note and ease off if if its starts to struggle. Obviously maxing out with Hardwood will need a slower feed than softwood.

Beams? I have a Timber Framer mate who always wants 6x6”. Mantles 8x4” I’m gonna build a Timber Framed Shed. The book I’ll follow has a lot of 8x8” beams but I’m not sure how much demand there is for them. But I mill mine at 8 1/4” so I can resaw them down to 6x6” when needed and still have a full 8x2” and 6x2” timber, so nothing wasted. Slabs I tend to mill 2 1/4” 3.5” etc. So can be resawn if required. Or once dry can be flattened down and still have a good thickness remaining. For example, I’m flattening a 3” slab just now. But it has a 1/2” cup in it. So I’ll end up with a 2” slab at the end. Hope that helps.

What bands are you running?

I think beams, and sleepers would be best suited to rot resistant wood, ie Oak and Larch, maybe even DF. Id slab everything else. Stack them and get them drying. Mantle Pieces sell well too. That could be any wood really? Although Oak always sells the best for that I find.

Cant help with pressure but in my experiance they get stuck very easily in soft ground.

And you too it would seem. Anyway, in light of whats been posted today I do appologise for having a go last night.

I had this issue when I first bought my Mill. Spent weeks trying to figure out the problem and checked and rechecked and rechecked every component that needs to be aligned and adjusted but it still cut wavey. Im the end it was the Bands themselves that was the issue. They where Bacho bands and they where to thin, so even over tensioning did nothing to help. Someone recommended getting Ripper 37 blades and that solved the problem instantly. The plus side is I now know my Mill inside out and its adjusted to within 1mm and most likely 0.5mm everywhere. Other things to check is you tension set right? Try and over tension a little and see if that helps. Are the wavy cuts at knots? This can have an affect on your blade wandering up and down. I guess you have a series of alignment checks and adjustments to perform on the Band Wheels, bearing guides etc etc? Could be worth re-checking all these in the correct order. Id order some Ripper 37 bands regardless, they are great (unless you-re already using them) so if you spend the next couple of days investigating the issue and still have not got it sussed then you'll have the new blades arrive and ready to try out. Call Steve directly and you can order less than the 10 blades stated on the website. ' Stephen Cull BladeMaster | Replacement Ripper37 Sawmill Blades | Wales WWW.STEPHENCULLBLADEMASTER.COM Get all your Ripper37 sawmill blades, bandsaw blade resharpening, Wood-Mizer sawmill servicing and sawmill...

You seem to have a highly inflated opinion of what this timber is worth considering you yourself admit you have no clue as to what your talking about. I’ve had your number from the outset. I’ll leave it for the others to come to their own conclusions. At least no one can go in blind based on your fake sob story

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.

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?

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.

Yet you've offered no actual help? So whats your point?

I actually agree with that. Our semantics will surely differ though.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ok, good luck.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ive heard you refer to Brown Oak quite often. Is that just regular English Oak or something else entirely?

The 130 max is a bit of a game changer. 30" live edge slabs would be great.