Thread: Well that was the easy part.

Nice stash of logs John, should keep you busy until smoko at least!

Originally Posted by tassietimbers

Nice stash of logs John, should keep you busy until smoko at least!

Beer o'çlock comes early on a Friday too.

Decent load that's for sure Be interesting what's inside

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Decent load that's for sure Be interesting what's inside

always get good color off the area they came out of, even the little guys. Reds and pinks not honey to yellow. There's some pretty ugly logs in there, lots of lumps and bumps... be plenty of figure but hopefully not that much that it gets hard to dry. Had that happen before once with similar logs - that much quilt all the wide boards cracked.

Nice job John, wish my logger is as industrious

Originally Posted by John.G

Beer o'çlock comes early on a Friday too.

Comes early every day in Katoomba.

Originally Posted by 1thumb

Nice job John, wish my logger is as industrious

sadly mate, right now I'm back to mostly cutting and snigging by myself. (Not this lot, they were felled by the landowner and I just crosscut and hauled, but all the scantling logs I'm doing by myself) I manage to run the mill in me spare time. Or maybe it's that I'm running a mill and managing to do me own harvest in me spare time.

There are no fish in the water here anyway, my bank manager told me so!

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Comes early every day in Katoomba.

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If I ever retire I'm coming to live next door to your beer fridge then.

Originally Posted by John.G

If I ever retire I'm coming to live next door to your beer fridge then.

Don't need one up here.

Heh heh, that should turn you off......'tis a bit different to FNQ up here.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Don't need one up here.

Heh heh, that should turn you off......'tis a bit different to FNQ up here.

Your beer fridge told me to tell you that its been offered a nice holiday at South Mission Beach where it won't have to freeze to death.

Nothing ever seems to happen fast around here, or go according to plan.
But 10 days later and I've managed to get my scantling orders out, did some maintenance work on the forklift, spent two days in the drymill side putting packs together to go south, then put through a few odd trees yesterday - Northern Silver Ash and Damson Plum. This afternoon... finally... we can start into the stack of QMP.

Not the best of them... not the worst... the reason we cut it was because it came first...


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But I'm telling ya the colour aint bad, and the grain is okay. And the mill smells like the Turkish Delight factory.

Originally Posted by John.G

Nothing ever seems to happen fast around here, or go according to plan.
But 10 days later and I've managed to get my scantling orders out, did some maintenance work on the forklift, spent two days in the drymill side putting packs together to go south, then put through a few odd trees yesterday - Northern Silver Ash and Damson Plum. This afternoon... finally... we can start into the stack of QMP.

Not the best of them... not the worst... the reason we cut it was because it came first...
But I'm telling ya the colour aint bad, and the grain is okay. And the mill smells like the Turkish Delight factory.

I dropped in on John on the way up to Innisfail last Friday arvo and received a bit of a guided tour of his modest setup. I saw some of the Silver Ash but it was under some other packs. It looked great, nice & white, so I just had to have some as I'm always on the look out for nice contrasting timbers. John offered to move the pack so I could drop in and grab some lengths this morning. True to his word there it was waiting at 12 noon as agreed.

Thank you John, the Innisfail Woodworkers club appreciated the donation of off cuts you gave me on the way up to their Learn & Turn weekend. I'm sure to be back as a repeat customer. Now all I have to do is a bit of stickering out and wait for the SA to dry.

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I dropped in on John on the way up to Innisfail last Friday arvo and received a bit of a guided tour of his modest setup. I saw some of the Silver Ash but it was under some other packs. It looked great, nice & white, so I just had to have some as I'm always on the look out for nice contrasting timbers. John offered to move the pack so I could drop in and grab some lengths this morning. True to his word there it was waiting at 12 noon as agreed.

Thank you John, the Innisfail Woodworkers club appreciated the donation of off cuts you gave me on the way up to their Learn & Turn weekend. I'm sure to be back as a repeat customer. Now all I have to do is a bit of stickering out and wait for the SA to dry.

It was nice to put a face to a name, and thank you for the lovely pens. I love timber (wouldnt be in this game if I didn't), so seeing how people use it is always wonderful, and being gifted something thats had that amount of time put into it is truly appreciated.

After you left I finished that poor lonely little red oak I was hacking at, then it was back to hardwood as usual. The oak didn't do to bad... by the time it was gone we got about a cube of 55mm plus some bigger sections off him... just a shame there wasn't more... and the offcuts bin is half full again already.
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Looks good - well worth the effort on the top section then. Hopefully the Innisfail Club will be in touch soon.

Must admit on the way home I had second thoughts & regrets about not purchasing more timber.