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G'day,

Just wondering how ya went with your logs. I have a Lucas Mill and do work around your way sometimes if you wanted me to come over and give you advice on milling. They are much too good to...

Yeah....I know this annual festival is no longer a truly "Blues" festival but there's some great musical acts performing this year. So, is anyone going? I am! Yippee!!!!

I'm still making sawdust. Even travelled down to the big smoke the other week to cut this oak up.

Yeah ya can buy them Carl but these cost a fortune :oo:

There's a bloke around Euroa who still cuts fence posts and rails with one of these.

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I get mine from paddocks (via my Lucas mill).

Not bad really. Good grass cover and all our tanks and dams are full. The sheep are fat and wool looks good. It's a bit different a little further North but here, we're doing ok.

Thanks for asking...

Gday Encino,

How many and what size?

G'day Mondo,

I've got a stack of old fence rails out the back of the yard. I got it from up in the Strathbogie ranges and I believe it's local stringy bark. Not sure of colour (they're painted)...

We run about 1000 Merinos on the family property but mainly for fine wool. But we run Merino cross Texcel for fat lambs (Mmmmmm tasty).
For low maintenance e.g. no shearing, just google "wool...

No need to worry Charlsie, I just got of the phone with the powers that be and I am now the new owner of 13 Sugar gum logs of my choice in return for milling the remainder for the primary school...

Nah Allan, that's the next generation of sawyer right there, my young bloke Jack.
The logs vary between 300mm and 800mm and are around 5.8m long. Sugar gum apparently. They were dropped to put up a...

Where do I start? After reading some of these posts I find it remarkable that people sing the praises of the American based outlets (maccas, jacks, kfc etc) because they have clean toilets and a...

G'day Tunny and Welcome to THE woodworking forum.

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Negotiations are under way

Here's the Black Wattle stacked and ready to be weighted down. So far no warping or cracking (fingers crossed).

The logs were 1/4 sawn (including 2 qtr sawn slabs) so yield wasn't great but still...

The chocks are made from aluminum and available from Lucas. They do a great job

http://www.lucasmill.com/OurProducts/OptionalAttachments/tabid/267/Default.aspx

Yeah, I'm going to have a fiddle on Monday before the job on Tuesday. Looking forward to it. Thanks for the tip Alan

Thanks Sigidi. Is the Lucas weatherboard attachment tricky to use. I've got all the instructions but wondered if there's any tips you can offer.

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Thanks a million to all the advice regarding weatherboards. I've a job coming up where I can use that advice to satisfy my customer.

To everyone else who've used this thread to sell a product or...

One simple question...that's all I asked.....one little question :no:

Well Easter gives us time to do the things we want so I kicked back and milled up my Black Wattle.

Just seeking a bit of advice. Are weatherboards better quartersawn or backsawn?

Hey Sigidi, hope all's well with your mill. The only consolation I can think of is that at least it's raining up there. We've only had a bit over an inch for the year.::

A square wheel is a box Carl :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I found that the slabbing finish is comparative with the rough sawn finish, just a bit straighter. If the customer wants a smooth finish I whack on the planing disc and dress it for them. They're...

Point taken Bill. Believe it or not I totally agree with you in regards to improvements. However, if I am contemplating modifying a piece of machinery (which I believe is a last resort) I would be...

Year I can see the headlines now "Man killed in sawmill accident in Brookfield Qld"

Fair Dinkum Carl, to modify the Lucas so drastically seems a bit irresponsible to me :oo:.
Your comment "im...

Grey box is Eucalyptus moluccana

Yellow box is Eucalyptus melliodora.

What you know as grey box is, in fact, yellow box:doh:

Don't what timber you're thinking of Carl, there are greybox post that we've replaced on my FIL's farm recently that are over 80 years in the ground. Hardly "rotting quickly".

Check this out...

We use grey box around here. It apparently has the same resistance to termites as treated pine does (read it somewhere).
And if there's a gate hung on it it's worth concreting the post and stay.

Quite the contrary, Aussie.

Check these links out

http://www.newtonhouse.info/straw.htm

http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/pubs/fs58.pdf

Strawbale buildings are more fire resistant than...

My wife built a strawbale shed before she built the strawbale house. It has no heating or cooling but doesn't really need it.

Arthur, You seem to have missed the point mate.

As this thread in entitled "The best swing saw" I reckon it's the Lucas for my business (which is a "serious milling concern", Arthur).

As Sigidi suggests, "ease of use, back up parts, back up...

Another option, although maybe not quite as accurate, is to stand 90 degrees to the estimated direction of fall. Hold a pencil or similar at full arms length and walk backwards (if room allows) while...

What does the oil you use end up being per litre, Carl?

I cut and dry a fair bit of Box timber (Red/Yellow/Grey) and don't find the Red box dries any differently to the Grey. As oddjob1 said, "even sticking, even temperature, cover with sarking in a cool...

I've just found a few fallen Black Wattle (Acacia Mearnsii) trees. One of which is pictured below.
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Bob, don't know if this will help but ,as a guitarist (player not builder) there's heaps of info at the Aussie Guitar Gear Heads site (http://www.guitargear.net.au). There's a page of Aussie guitar...

I resemble that remark (or is that reesmbele) :doh:

Had the same problem with one of my blades a while ago. Spoke to Lucas and they suggested to get the blade re-tensioned. Sent the blade to the saw doctor in Bendigo (one of two in Australia...

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Good one Carl :blond:

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I've read some remarkable things on this forum written by you Carl and had trouble understanding a lot of them due to your obvious inability to use a spell checker but that statement is...

Yeah I guess you can. Just give them a call.

Well said Sigidi.

Do just like arguing Carl?

So why did you ask then Carl?