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I guess thats why he's got the fake Sky Scam going?

Love it!

Are you sure its not from the rubber elements, ie diaphragms, hoses etc perishing at the swap over from conventional fuel to motomix?

Its an utterly pathetic dig at a few folk on here. These Mills are literally aimed at people doing just that, buying a Mill and having a bash. At the 'homesteader' who wants to save money by milling their own products and people who want diverse into another market or job and continue to provide for their family. Its not Rocket Science to operate one or understand why people he clearly see's beneath him would invest in a Mill. If Milling and being the worlds best Chippy paid so well I wonder why he needs to top up his income by selling illegal Cable/Sky type Dongles on the side?

Yeh, Im flat out with work these days. Could work all the days I want but want home to see the family. Some lads I was out with last night have stayed in Norway since March and have made close to £100,000 in the first 6 months of this year. In the grander scheme of things the vast majority of companies out there are not doing well at all. Where the Furlough and wages paid for by the Government, ie you, to end we'd see the reality of the devastation being wrought to the UK. These busy Tree Guys can only go out and make good money and be flat out as long as there is average folks getting paid a wage from either their companies or the Government. If and when that dries up it will have a knock on effect I feel. We're in the eye of the storm just now and have a sense that things are getting back to normal when it could be the exact opposite. I hope not though and I hope those in power see sense and end this charade. Congrats on the mortgage payments though, would love to see that one day myself. One lad out last nigh says he pays something very similar to what you're paying purely to have the bank look after the deeds for him. Where he to pay the mortgage off in full he'd have to pay a solicitor to transfer it and he's too tight for that.

Interesting to see the more Les posts the more inept, clueless and out of his depth is actually is. We're still yet to see anything he's actually produced.

I think between my brother and I we'll use them all quite soon but if not then I'll drop you a PM.

A few months time and C-19 will be back in full swing. Or the regular flu will be , or both and the world will panic as far more die from the regular flu than C-19 and they won’t know what to do. Full lock-down again. Jobs will have to go as we’re already 330B in the Red over this farce. It’s gonna be a blood bath next year so I can see why the lenders are reigning in their liabilities, even low risk as the uncertainty of the coming year/s is to great. I was very fortunate to buy my house on Friday. We where down to the wire too. Mortgage offer expires tomorrow and I’m quite sure I’d not get offered another loan due to the uncertainty and also being paid in Kroner. Interesting times ahead.

I really don't see what folks issue was with it? Be nice to see them post up some of their work.

His Boss paid him about £3000 for that table. Not bad money really.

Les, I know you like a wind-up, me as well. So I dont blame you for trying. Now I know certain imperfections runs through your bloodline, does that include reading as well? I guess affected minds is something quite close to home for you, right? Because Ive clearly stated I did not make that table, twice now. I have to be on good behavior these days, otherwise Id have you spitting blue murder, whining about your poor old wife and demanding the Mods shut your thread down. By all means post your Ash thread and by all means keep this childish game up, just dont go crying to the mods this time, huh?

Have to disagree there. Although I do like antique tables its the darkness that puts me off. You need to have the the right house for them and 99% of us dont. You need to get your eyes tested. Natural oak and Oiled Oak looks nothing like pine. I'll add I made neither of the tables Ive posted on this thread, neither are to my liking either really.

Sounds like when you buy Shell or Tesco Fuel. Its all came from the same Refinery, just different additives.

The Mills just got back to me. The Slabs are actually 5.5" thick and 3.3m long with the upper two measuring 36" across and the lower ones obviously tapering down. Happy days!

£25 a cubic foot seems to be the going rate for green hardwood slabs +/-. That price is to taking into account all the green Slab. So I was questioning your 'fact'. You reduced the volume of a 36" slab down to 24", using your time working in a Sawmill as a guide on how green Slab volumes should be calculated. We seem to be talking Apples with Oranges here. So I was trying to ascertain you're actual experiance in Milling and selling Hardwood Slabs for a market somewhat different to what you did in your youth. From what I can gather from your evasiveness is you clearly have a lot of knowledge and experience from working in a Sawmill but in a more niche market of selling live edge slabs you dont give the impression that you have much if any experience of this at all. If Im wrong I apologise, but I can only go on what little feedback you actually give. As you clearly have a lot of experience in sawmilling Im sure you could tell me if the losses you mention above are calculated into the selling price of the lumber that comes out of a log? A quick look on-line would seem to indicate so. For example, an Oak, rough sawn beam 6" x 6" x79" = 1.645ft3 and sells for £70. Thats £43 a cube. Significantly more than the £25 for a Green Slab. So one is the total volume and the other has factored in the losses already. So you reducing a 36" Slab width down to 24" based on your past experience is not discussing Apples with Apples. It's nothing to do with not liking your 'fact', just getting some clarity and discussing the differing ways of skinning a cat. Thank you for your contribution though, I'm sure your wealth of knowledge will be very helpful on this sub-forum.

That’s great. But I asked what slabs you mill and have for sale. At £25 a cubic foot minus 1/3rd volume and any defects cut off I’d like to see this stock you have. They must sell like hot cakes.

I think there is a matching crack of 12" at the other end now as well. I guess thats what happens when you bring a 15%mc Slab into a warm office. And if you look closely its a dirty site office, a few cracks is not really gonna bother them. Let me know when you're selling some Slabs, knowing you're gonna remove 1/3rd of its volume due to wane and sapwood and take off the lengths of any cracks sounds like there is some bargains to be had! Do you have any pictures of the Slabs you mill and sell?

You'll probably prefer this one then? 42" Oak Slab I milled a few years ago.

Even going by my bothers table there is significantly more than 24" of 'recoverable board'. When selling Slabs do you really remove so much for the customer and call a 36" Slab a 24" one? You're clearly very generous. Looking at my Brothers table there is not a a significant amount of sapwood or slant on the wane to justify reducing a 36" Slab down to a 24" one. Plus I was deliberately under sizing the volume. If we're gonna be pedantic I'll get an accurate dimension for you.

Last time I looked at my Tape Measure 36" is 3 foot wide.

When you put it that way. Id not pay £600 for a slab of it though. £200 yes. Thats £1600 for the log. His Boss paid £600, he'd have paid that for whatever he was told was worth it. Im paying for the storage and drying for the last 20 years more than anything. The Oak I last got from that barn was 15% MC. I'll assume these, even at 4" thick will be no different. Hardwood sells green £25 a cubic foot, give or take. There is 10 cubes in at least the middle two Slabs so thats £250 a pop right there, right off the mill.

Really? Never thought there was much of a market for Ash? My brothers taking half for making worktops for his new house. Will split his lot in half. 2" is plenty think. I'll have a nosy around the yard, everything else not deems worthwhile (like this) was dumped out in the rain. Shame really.

Customers seem to love it. That slab is the one that would have been sitting onto the stack we just bought, would never have thought 4 years later we'd have bought the rest.

A Sawmill I used to use in the past was clearing out one of their barns and Ive scored some Ash Slabs off of them. My brother bought one of them 4 years ago and paid £600 for it. The middle slices are at least 36" across, 4" thick and over 3m long. 5 all off of the same log. Best bit is they've been stored for 20 years in that barn. Paid £200 a slab and he threw in a couple of oak bits as well. The table was for my brothers boss who owns a Construction company, the name is down the H-Beam.