Rough Hewn
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Last day on the beech, Love my job! [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Got stacks. How many do you want? (Collection only) [emoji12]
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Approved Contractor Workshop - Kirklees/Holmfirth (Wed. 6th March)
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Had a go on one at the APF Great fun, and very useful bit of kit. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Ash is not a durable outdoor wood. It will rot and get eaten if left wet or on soil.
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Remember walnut and burr pippy oak sell for £2-3k m3 kiln dried.
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Pricing and selling are two different things. "Character grade oak" £20-£60 per cubic foot kiln dried. So stack in a barn with stickers for 4 years. Take to a kiln and pay £xxx Then find buyers who want 10' x 4' x 3" slabs. Over sized slabs like yours will be at the top end £50-60 a cubic foot. £5-600 a slab Sold green half price. £250-£300. These are commercial retail prices. Or put legs on it and charge £2-3k [emoji848][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Optimistic pricing. The real profit is putting legs on it. [emoji12][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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No, it has quite good cohesion. Just mill it green, the day you fell it. [emoji106]
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If you can get one with a winch to feed it. So quick. [emoji106]
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It goes hard real quick when felled. After a year or two it's like iron. Either bogging the saw or just blunting the chain. It's quite chattery when cutting too. [emoji51]
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I had some narrow ash boards, they went oatmeal coloured with light tan lines. Nice as shelves. But... Ash is horrible to mill with an Alaskan, if you really must get it on a band saw. [emoji106]
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery Don. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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I thought rot/fungus/spalted was all the same thing? Just discolouration? Is there a difference?
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It was going to be the main job but the stem was hollow. ☹️ Manage to salvage the crotch, but a bit mushy on one side.
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Bit more today, Then onto the big crown piece. Had to trim the sides to 1metre wide. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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I use the short and long stihl felling bars. They last. Don't use two people on the long one or it will bend sideways. [emoji106]
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Buy once [emoji106]
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I prefer clean beech to spalted personally. But spalted is what's popular. [emoji106]
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Great for small woodlands but tear up lawns badly. [emoji106]
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About 20-30% air. The longer the wood the more air you buy. [emoji12][emoji106]
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Got sent this... [emoji12]
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Cutting some nice beech yesterday and today. Site was rather inclined with no vehicle access. Slabs and trunks slipping around [emoji51] Cutting went fine until... But the quality of the planks, gentle spalting and fantastic grain. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
