Thread: HELP, Southern Highlands, NSW

As Rustynail advised...WRONG time of year to mill it...take heed!
The borers will smash it...the heat will buckle it...particularly if it is slabbed through and through as there will be quite a bit of backsawn and riftsawn material...if milled into quarter sawn boards you'll eliminate a fair bit of degrade but...
Listen to the 'experts' folks
1) End seal the billet
2)Spray it with appropriate pesticide (mix with diesel)
3)Mill in the cooler months
Good luck...MM

Originally Posted by fletty

FF, George IV is open again but no food nor boutique beer yet

Well that's a good start, and they can take as long as they want with the food....

G'Day Alan, Two things....

My trailer is a tandem axle with a 3t hitch and brakes; if you need to use it your well.....

The bloke I had mill my dead iron bark is as follows:
Michael Trickett; Able Mobile Sawmill, 26 York St, Katoomba....Ph#0414824400
His business card says "Three Mills" 6" 10" Slabber 1.9m - Max log length 6.7m

Cheers, Peter

Originally Posted by Old Hilly

Or just go to the pub and do some planning. ;-)

Originally Posted by Old Hilly

take it home and season it for a while and do some serious thinking about what you want to do with it.

Pretty sure there's a message in there somewhere......

Pretty sure it's being received too.....

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Can't think how I can help, but if standing around looking dopey and inept could be useful then lemme know.

I can give you a hand doing that. Come to think of it I might be able to borrow a Tirfor, rope and chains but I have to know by tomorrow midday as Mrs P. is going down the coast and she can bring it back.

If you want boards instead of slabs a couple wedges and a sledge and it should quarter easy enough, particularly if you drop a chainsaw through it in front of the wedges. That will at least make loading easy, and you can sort it out with a tablesaw or bandsaw later.

I'm happy enough to mill it for you, but as I said earlier, its futile at this time of year. I have a couple of jobs booked in for April down Camden way. Would be smart to bring the log to the saw, rather than set up for one poxy bit of stick. We will be running a slabber and a swing blade at both sites. Have a think about it.

Originally Posted by rustynail

I'm happy enough to mill it for you, but as I said earlier, its futile at this time of year. I have a couple of jobs booked in for April down Camden way. Would be smart to bring the log to the saw, rather than set up for one poxy bit of stick. We will be running a slabber and a swing blade at both sites. Have a think about it.

Rusty’, you’re THE MAN!
OK, here’s the plan, I’ll get the log to my place, paint the ends and insecticide, think carefully about what I will do with it, drink beer with FF at George IV, in April get Rusty’ to slab it and, if necessary, offer Rusty’ the use of my back paddock to slab his and mine, drink beer with Rusty’ at GeorgeIV?
Many thanks to all and I may be calling on some labouring help and drinking beer with labourers at George IV.
I have also received a nice thankyou card from the Marketing Department of the George IV

fletty

Al, sounds like a perfect excuse for another GTG . . . .

Just thinking aloud

Originally Posted by fletty

Rusty’, you’re THE MAN!
OK, here’s the plan, I’ll get the log to my place, paint the ends and insecticide, think carefully about what I will do with it, drink beer with FF at George IV, in April get Rusty’ to slab it and, if necessary, offer Rusty’ the use of my back paddock to slab his and mine?
Many thanks to all and I may be calling on some labouring help?

I think there's a step or three missing from that plan

like when does Rusty' get to sample the wares at the George IV ?

Originally Posted by ian

I think there's a step or three missing from that plan

like when does Rusty' get to sample the wares at the George IV ?

Issue recognised and edit to include Rusty’ and potential labourers already enacted

Originally Posted by fletty

.... drink beer with FF at George IV

....and perhaps sooner than you think. According to their Facebook page the Lager is already back (top right of the pic banner), and they have a food truck doing lunch & dinner 7 days...

I have posted on their page, enquiring to the welfare of the Bock.

Originally Posted by fletty

Rusty’, you’re THE MAN!
OK, here’s the plan, I’ll get the log to my place, paint the ends and insecticide, think carefully about what I will do with it, drink beer with FF at George IV, in April get Rusty’ to slab it and, if necessary, offer Rusty’ the use of my back paddock to slab his and mine, drink beer with Rusty’ at GeorgeIV?
Many thanks to all and I may be calling on some labouring help and drinking beer with labourers at George IV.
I have also received a nice thankyou card from the Marketing Department of the George IV

fletty

Thanks for the offer of a paddock, but we are milling a heap of pine for log cabins. There is about 4 maybe 5 jinkers worth. We are not talking just a few logs here.
To be honest, I think John's suggestion of wedge splitting is a good one. This I gather is a silkie oak? If so, it should be quarter cut all the way, not slabbed. Quartering will give the fleck medullary ray look that makes the oaks so attractive. Slabbing only gives a very small percentage of quarter cut material.
What ever you decide to do, try to keep the log or splits from drying out too much. A piece of old carpet under felt is good. Toss it over the lot and hit it with the hose every so often.

Hi mate just read your post give me a buzz 0418297028 have lucas mill and i'm in mittagong
Cheers Lindsay