Thread: Big log project continues...

Great pics - can you post some close ups of the wood.

Originally Posted by tassietimbers

PS Can anyone tell me why an older Stihl 066, the one with the little red light/glass on the side, would run fine on the horizontal, but cough and splutter and die when held on the vertical. It was originally stalling after 5 minutes of use, as if starved for fuel or leaning out and was hard to re-start. Leave it for an hour and it would start fine again. Took it to the local shop, had a few things replaced but with no real luck. It has them baffled as well. Cheers!

It could be a slight crankcase pressure leak that only shows up when it's held on the side. You need to do the test with the saw held in both orientations.

Hi BobL

Yep, Stihl shop thought that also, put in new crank case seals, still no luck. Has plenty of compression. Also replaced a few other bits and pieces that were showing signs of wear, still dying when held in the vertical position.

Cheers

James

I had a similar problem, my fuel tank is not symmetrical and the fuel hose had moved and was caught up on a small protrusion within the tank.

Wow absolutely astonishing! Must be a massive feet of cutting and planning on each cut.
Thanks for sharing james
cheers stevo.

Nice sticks!!

When do you get to the big stuphph??

Here are a few more pics from last weeks adventures...

The short, partly burnt log is solid birdseye that goes right down to the heart, and weighs 3.2 tonnes. The end grain shows the distinct birdseye steak the whole way through the log. Might end up cutting four large centred backsawn billets from each quarter at 650mm wide, then bandsawing the billets into bookmatched table top sets, which will join and finish at about 1200mm wide. I have done this in the past and the result is amazing. Funnily enough, the farmer has several attempts at burning the log as it was too big for his tractor to move!

The logs loaded on my crane truck are from the extremely fine grained fiddle back tree. Each half went 4.5 and 3 tonnes repectively, as well as a few good head logs. The quarter sawn boards from this should be spectacular.

Anyway, hope you like.

Cheers

James

Hope the milling goes to plan!! Should provide some beautiful table tops!!

Hi James, good job on the salvage, I wonder how many logs like this that are actually burnt just from lack of knowledge/understanding, there are people out there that can use what is a dwindling resource.



Pete

Last time I was at the local tip they had a heap of trunks from local trees (gums) that had been removed and just dumped up with the rest of the green waste. Some big buggers too.

It is a real shame that there seems to be no-one out this way with the equipment to mill this stuff.

If the tip had been dewatered (cyclone Rusty dumped a fair bit of rain and flooded out the tip) I will try to get some pics tomorrow.


Shawn

They are some big ass logs.
You must have some overheads in your game.

Will

Originally Posted by mach70

Last time I was at the local tip they had a heap of trunks from local trees (gums) that had been removed and just dumped up with the rest of the green waste. Some big buggers too.

It is a real shame that there seems to be no-one out this way with the equipment to mill this stuff.

If the tip had been dewatered (cyclone Rusty dumped a fair bit of rain and flooded out the tip) I will try to get some pics tomorrow.


Shawn

Shawn, I'm cutting for our regional council at a landfill site at the moment - about 2 solid weeks worth of milling for them, you might be surprised they could think about doing something similar...if they knew......

James

There's a lot of timber there. (Post #15) Apart from cutting it up, what are your plans for it? I' m assuming you didn't take the log in pic 071 home as it looks like you got to it a bit too late .

Regards
Paul

I'm another one interested in your plans for the wood? On my list of projects is a bar which some of that burnt log would probably look fantastic on as a bar top. It also happens that my parents live in Rochester

Hi all

For those of you who have had look at our salvage jobs over the past few years, you may recall I have mentioned the "mother log" a few times. Well, here she is. 30 feet long with an average diameter of about 7 feet, the butt diameter oval shaped at 7 x 10 foot. Fully burled with birdseye for the entire length. I decent pipe in the middle, but many tonnes of recoverable timber.

Picking it up with a 25 tonne tilt tray semi tommorrow, sending it back to the farm for milling. It has one very flat side which could possibly produce a 30' long x 5-7' wide slab, but I never count my slabs before they're milled!

Anyway, I think the photos tell the story, and that's me having a rest in the shade after the saw work, and Rob and I posing in the other photo.

Hope you like the mother log.

Cheers

James