Thread: HELP, Southern Highlands, NSW

Bad time of year to mill it. How about paint the ends and get the log home?

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mill...ing/1052661890

Found these guys on Gumtree.

I seem to remember talking to a young fellow Pacman knows who is an arborist and has access to a mill.

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

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.

Same goes for me. I could be FF's apprentice.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Can't think how I can help, but

you could do refreshment runs to and from Picton pub

Originally Posted by ian

you could do refreshment runs to and from Picton pub

Mate if it was back up and running after the floods a few years ago....I'd have been hanging around fletty's place a lot more often......

fletty tells me it has been sold and will be refurbished (or is being), but there were some pretty heavy challenges to overcome with Planning permission et al.

Originally Posted by ajw

Same goes for me. I could be FF's apprentice.

Hmmmm. So I think you're saying that there are things I can teach you about looking dopey and inept.

There's a bloke in mittagong who has a lucas mill names Lindsay check your local directory.Knows what he is doing.Give him a bell.

cheers....Roy

At 560kg/m3 (12% MC) I put it at between 500kg and 600kg. Roughly and a guess as to moisture content.
You are welcome to use the trailer if you want to try and move it. A Tirfor and some ramps (bits of 4x2) should get it onto the trailer.

Well, if he does find someone to slice up the log, one of you can do the "tailing-out" and the other bloke can do the sorting and stacking. Then youse can all go to the pub when the job is over. Or something like that. Or just go to the pub and do some planning. ;-)

Originally Posted by NCArcher

At 560kg/m3 (12% MC) I put it at between 500kg and 600kg. Roughly and a guess as to moisture content.

Trunk will need to be down for years to get anywhere near a 12%MC on a whole trunk.
Green density will be close to 1000 kg/m^3 when first cut and for some time thereafter.
Even a 750 kg trailer might be a bit iffy with this one.

crowie's trailer is a tandem and takes more than a tonne IIRC.

Hi FenceFurniture, I am the one that shanesmith80 met probably at a woodshow in sydney. I used to have access to a lucas sawmill through work but I had a disagreement with the boss to put it at best and was laid off. I am still friends with the old bosses dad who owns the mill but I haven't slabbed any logs before. I used to cut dimemsional boards. Maybe contact lucas sawmills to see if they can help you.

Hire a car trailer for the day, winch (car trailers usually come with a good winch already fitted) the log on using a long, smooth, preferably timber, ramp, not the metal ramps that usually come with the trailer, take it home and season it for a while and do some serious thinking about what you want to do with it. Just remember, if you spend too much time thinking the termites will probably make the log lighter and all that thinking totally redundant.