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My wife and soul mate (Amanda) of 46 years died suddenly on Sunday and I am pretty shattered. I have a son and daughter-in-law and two wonderfull grandkids, 9 siblings, 8 in-laws, 30 nieces and nephews, 21 great nieces and nephew, great neighbours and friends, but have never felt so alone. The...

I haven't milled anything in about 6 months but last week I finally got down to the tree loppers yard where I do most of my milling to see about starting up again. Since I stopped milling back in April the bigger band mill (located outside) need some parts replaced (I was working on these in my...

I'm in the process of replacing a disintegrated fuel primer bulb on my BILs Eager Beaver and my question is. Which primer pipe stub (long or short) connects to the carby? I pulled the primer bulb out of the case ( hoses had disintegrated) and then realised that I had not taken notice of this...

Greetings fellow wood wranglers. I usually hang out in the milling forum and although I've done some chainsaw carving I mainly mill timber although I do a fair bit of wood .and metal work. In the last 18 months or so I've been supplying timber to a mate of mine who started carving (also 18...

The Woodlander has been getting flogging on hard stuff but since last Friday has been getting a rest so I thought I would give it something easy to do. On Saturday I finally got around to breaking up a 100 year old ft x ft by 6ft Jarrah beam for a mate of mine - he only gave it to me to cut up...

We've had the Woodlander HM30Max at the tree loppers yard for almost two months so I thought it might be time for a review especially as it's put in almost 50 hours of sawing time during that period. I've posted some of this info and photos in another thread but thought this mill deserved its...

This flitch came from a Spotted gum infested with Longihorn Beetle. Despite the infestation the non-sap wood was reasonably sound Anyway I though I might make an interesting ornament for the garden It all happens in the sap wood under the bark These two close up show where beetles laid eggs...

I'm milling more stuff for nature playgrounds. The landscape architects want 5 logs, ~36" in diameter and 5 - 8ft long with a large flat taken off the top. Like this. This one had spiral grain and was not going to be good for any lumber anyway. Today I tackled this Jarrah (Eucalyptus...

I'm trying to get the bandsaw mill cutting straight again and seem to have run into a brick wall. It was cutting "OK when I last used it a few years back but since getting back to it, every time the blade starts cutting something harder than the rest of the log, like a knot or branch union, or...

Here are some small Banksia logs I milled up today on my small milling rig. These will be used mainly for small craft type goods like boxes, although one of my mates wants a piece for carving This is the finish I get with Lopro on a 25" bar on the 441. Last time I used some Banksia was on...

Finally got the small CSM out and milled up some stuff in my back yard. Were on 1/8th acre inner city so this can only be done midday midweek when most of the neighbours are working. The first item was a hardwood block for a friend who wants to use it as a sort of cutting board/light butchers...

Ancient One posted a few photos of his shop (DROOL!) so I thought we should have our own thread on this. You know where you service your CS's and perform your CSM mods etc. Here are a few photos mine. We live on 6500 sqft about 1 mile as the crow flies from the CBD. Most of the block is taken...

It's been a while but I finally got round to do some chainsaw milling. Only small logs with the 441, a 25" bar and my small alaskan but I figure this would be about all my knees could cope with. The logs are small (<12" diameter, ~5ft long) Malaysian Teak, donated to a local Community...

A couple of years back I loaned my small mill to a member and when I got it back, the member said he had nicked the bar clamp bolts and that's why he was giving me 4 new bolts (still in their packets) plus some real nice M8 bar nuts. These nuts are good for bar clamp bolts because the nuts are...

Some of you may have noticed that although I have been responding to the odd post that I have not been milling anything for quite a while. I could reel out my long list of medical reasons but lets just sum it up by saying things got to the point where I could not stand for more than 5 minutes...

Since the boss bought a BS sharpener and setter I have been teaching myself BS band sharpening with mixed success. The first couple of bands I touched up worked better than I thought they would but some time after that the bands have tended to dive in the cut. We tried more set with limited...

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Someone on another forum pointed me to these RC helicopter blade pitch indicators and I realised they could be used as Digital Angle finders (DAFs) At only ~US$7 (including postage) everyone can afford to have at least one in their CS sharpening kit...

Had to show this. At the local Mens Community workshop where I supervise someone turned up wanting a chair fixed. I was not there at the time and the only members present were several metal workers and this is what they did.

Jarrah Burl. ~44" x 65"