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Lovely looking stuff MM, what have you got planned for it?

Good on you!

So ........when do we get to see it?

That's a very good way of putting it Al :2tsup:

Huon you make me cry and salivate simultaneously. (my turn WILL come)

Nice looking BC there Bob. Always been one of my favorite dogs. I've still got one BC as well as four ACD's and I reckon it's their Intelligence/curiosity that gets them doing half the stuff they do....

Easy done at least you had the excuse of BACKING over it, I drove FORWARDS over mine and the wheel kind of spat it out sideways about 5 m down into a gully
Still worked fine, nothing broken (it was...

I found this one when I was looking for the same thing

http://www.thewoodworks.com.au/images/stories/Tables_06.pdf

Dunnings Woodyard in Kew (Melbourne) had a couple of these type machines for years looked like a 50's manufacture bloke swore by them, reconned for speed they were hard to beat. Not sure what power...

I rescued this Leichhardt Tree ( Nauclea orientalis ) during the week. It was pushed over in February 2011 and was sitting on the bank of a creek so I grabbed it before the creek floods over the next...

Looking good, got any plans for it ???

Good point, we have scrap alright!!!

It is exactly the "why does this happen" thing that I'm trying to pin down, at the end of the day there comes a point where theory must turn into practise,...

Some insightful thoughts there Paul. All this stuff has been going around in my head hence all my questions.

It started out as "hey we have some windfall logs wonder if the timber is any good for...

Nice one Bob I hadn't seen your CS mill setup before, very tidy unit, I like the handle on the saw.

I made a tongue and groove gate across a driveway years ago. Fixed to a galv RHS frame it worked well never seemed to move or jam or anything, pretty heavy thing though. I'd make sure you fixing...

Thanks everyone, the weldmesh idea which I'd seen before is obviously still a good one.

I do like the V shaped idea though very lateral thinking. Think I'd have to use galvanised though with the...

I have occasionally been accused of being a hoarder, however I prefer to think of myself as someone who wisely retains and stores things for a rainy day. :D

I'm sure many of you will agree that...

Thanks everyone for the pointers. It seems pretty much agreed that using the mill is the easy (ish) part which is pretty much what I had assumed. It's obviously producing decent quality timber that's...

Tim, I can help you with A. aulacocarpa, bit far away though.

Some of them go up to 1100mm at the base!

Been doing a lot of thinking recently and a lot of reading, here, in books, in articles etc etc. All in regard as to what best to do with my windfall of timber.

By way of explanation, if you...

These area couple of pics of the wall I was talking about above.

Nice outcome, gives it that "organic" look which I assume is what he wanted.

Saw a similar look done on a Visitor centre somewhere (thing it was Weipa or somewhere like that) using only flitches,...

We put a deck over the coping on an above ground pool 8 years ago. Used Kwila because it was readily available and a good price. Leaching into the pool was never an issue as any tannin etc gets...

Nice bit of recycling there, amazing what gets thrown away.

Nothing like letting hydraulics take the strain out of the job:D

Any chance of a closeup of the slabs, be interested to see the grain as I have a couple of bloodwoods here and am wondering what to do with them.

Good article, much appreciated Jon.

Yet another one here Carl, I did two disks in June last year from awkwardly lifting a firepit made out of half a 44. Not heavy just awkward I felt such a dill.

Doc reckoned she had had people do...

Nice looking stuff, always good to see what's happening in other parts of the world.

Looking good Al :2tsup:

A couple of thoughts (just my 2 cents worth)
Not sure of the legalities but I'd consider using chains with load binding device rather than the webbing and ratchet to tie...

Thanks for those thoughts, Lyctus don't seem to bother with these logs. Indeed termites will attack the sapwood of dead trees that have been standing for 5 years yet past the sapwood it will be...

Al, I'd go for fixed forks definitely. I have free (fixed at the top forks) on the loader/backhoe and they can be fair pita especially when you get the heel of the fork dug into a bit of dirt or...

I have a surplus of standing dead Black Wattle (Brown Salwood, Acacia aulacocarpa)

I also have need for a new farm shed mainly to dry timber in so I'm wondering how suitable these wattle logs are...

I disagree strongly, the purpose it to enable faster cornering, thus achieving better work cycle times. It's obvious, :roll:

Well done !! That'll take some of the hard work out of the job.

Now you can think about all the attachments you could get for it

Forks, log grab, bale handler, posthole digger, backhoe,...

Are you talking about Cherry Penda?

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Thanks for the pointers. (Black plastic is out) I have been painting the ends of the logs as we've gone and will keep doing that with any milled boards. (Had a 20l drum of white acrylic that I got...

You mean I've been doing it all wrong by using a machetie to fell trees?????

Had a measure of it, diameter at widest point is 1050 at narrowest its 910 the in between dia is 970. Length is 11.5m

First pic is a bit rough I was by myself trying to hold the tape and the...

Thanks Paul for taking the trouble to explain that much appreciated

The message to mill NOW is coming through loud and clear. Although I have to say that as part of this project we have found some...

Innocent looking Rootball when climbed revealed a decent log.

Little bit of rot in the centre of base. We left a bit of the top as it was felt there maybe some interesting grain where branches...

Using the Alaskan was not one of the options I was thinking of!!!!! It would take me weeks and months of time I don't have.

Guess if you talk 50 to 60% recovery I would still struggle to fit in...

More specifically to mill now or later.

It now looks like after this weekend I'll have some 80 fallen cyclone logs recovered. Talk about a small project turning into a bigger one:oo:

There is a...

Here are some logs from trees that were killed by Yasi.
The largest is about 900 diam at base.

Looks a lot like the stuff we have around here which I understand to be
Brown Salwood (Aulacocarpa)

It does cut up nice!

I said this would happen!!!

However I don't know how the car thing got into it, but here goes, no Toyota for me. I really like my J3 Bedford and F250, for offroad seriously extreme stuff not much...

Been getting some more logs ready to pull out see (Cylone Yasi Logging is small milling forum)

I'd dearly like some clues as to what these might be.

T1 is a piece from the buttress of the tree...

Had the use of a small excavator with log grab yesterday, so took the opportunity to clean up access for the dozer for the big logs as well as pull out some of the smaller ones. These are the ones in...

Gees...... that sounds more like an incurable habit than a bunch of machinery LOL

Seriously though they are a good and perhaps little understood thing, there are a few other Fiat crawlers around...

I have had several Huskies so when it came time to buy a big'un I admit I was leaning toward 395.

However I had a play with an admittedly tired 066 (it had been used to cut 5 billion ironbark...

Not totally sure but I think it's an 8 B or a 10.
The bloke is back next Wednesday I'll ask him.

Apart from the "freshly cut timber" smell there is no strong smell.