Thread: Milling Holiday

Nice to see a bit of advertising on the side of that flash mill Mike, but I noticed a typo shouldn't it be Mobile Saw Mill 0409 472 563?!?!

I bet ya found those 4x4's came off good, not much movement, especially with such a large log.

Great to see you having some time making sawdust Mike - keep it up:t2tsup:

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Nice to see a bit of advertising on the side of that flash mill Mike, but I noticed a typo shouldn't it be Mobile Saw Mill 0409 472 563?!?!

I bet ya found those 4x4's came off good, not much movement, especially with such a large log.

Great to see you having some time making sawdust Mike - keep it up:t2tsup:

Pretty sure those two numbers will get the same result - being put in touch with who ever is closer

Yep you are right, not a bent, warped or twisted 4x4 in site

Todays little number was an ugly burnt old jarrah stump at my my brothers in Denmark. He said this is the one and I thought, that is going to have no decent wood in it - I was very wrong. Luckily he lives on sand so we could mill straight through the root bowl as there were no rocks.

Absolutley beautiful timber with lots of figure and fiddleback, he wanted 100 x 100 veranda posts and 200 x 200 posts for the next stage of his house which is going to be straw bale. The 200 x 200's will be along the front wall and will have 3 metre glass bifolds running between them. Now he wants to find a six metre long log to cut a 200 x 200 length out of as a top beam to complete the chanky framed look - bags cutting and not tailing on that one

The last flitch had such nice figure we flipped it with the tractor and cut it back into a 80mm slab. I scored all the 100 x 100 lengths that were not long enough for building to sell as table legs.

Tomorrow I have my first paid milling job (money not timber) cutting another jarrah into 100 x 100's for a guys shearing shed extension.

This mornings effort, three logs all jarrah, took three hours cut into 4x2, 5x1 and 2x1 all for a farmers shearing shed and pen. All up there was just of 0.9 cubic metres of boards cut.

Mike 1" boards take ages to get through a log hey?

Oh the joys of milling

Hey Mike, I'm still down south at Denmark. So far we have milled a small sheoak which was rotten, a small jarrah which was OK , a bigger jarrah which has too many termite tracks to be usable. at that point everyone was feeling a bit glum, but then we hit gold. A heap of Jarrah and a 750 mm diameter Marri all in good nick and a real big (1.35m diameter) jarrah. Have spent a day setting up and just started milling this morning. Will post pics one when I have time.

Originally Posted by BobL

Hey Mike, I'm still down south at Denmark. So far we have milled a small sheoak which was rotten, a small jarrah which was OK , a bigger jarrah which has too many termite tracks to be usable. at that point everyone was feeling a bit glum, but then we hit gold. A heap of Jarrah and a 750 mm diameter Marri all in good nick and a real big (1.35m diameter) jarrah. Have spent a day setting up and just started milling this morning. Will post pics one when I have time.

Wish I had of known you were in Denmark, would have invited you over to get coated in charcol and jarrah dust from the dirty burnt log we did. The first log I cut on this thread was like the ones you describe, full of termites, pipes and dry rot. The ugly burnt Denmark log was magic timber, 200 x 200 posts are going to look magnificent.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Mike 1" boards take ages to get through a log hey?

Oh the joys of milling

I had a win with that really as I had quoted the guy hourly and he initially wanted 4x4's, the smaller and more diverse range of planks was much better for me. I prefer to work on an hourly rate as it means my and the machines time is always covered. I started the meter when the mill was ready to accept the first log and turned it off when the last cut was finished, all log rolling etc happened on the clock. Client payed for one additional hour on top of milling time to cover setup and breakdown time. As it was oly five minutes from where I am staying, no travel cost.

Was beautiful log to cut, clean and still quite moist (only down two years), was even more beautiful receiving a cheque at the end for doing something i enjoy for four hours

Hi Mike you are getting me all excited about a 8-30. we don't have timber as nice as that over here in Vic though.
Curently designing a mill so suit a chain saw.

I have emailed lucas to see if there are any mills going cheap as i am going that way next week.
See what happens.

regards
Jamie