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  1. Daninvan

    Hope to get back to some milling soon

    Hope the teak works out for you. That would be fabulous to mill. I have cut back on shop time somewhat. Have a couple small projects on the go but nothing too ambitious. Still have lots of wood though!! Glad to hear of the recent improvement on the knee, I'm sure the progress helps you...
  2. Daninvan

    Hope to get back to some milling soon

    Hi Bob, haven't been hanging around here much since I sold all my milling gear a year or so ago. Glad to hear you are getting back into some projects. Hope you continue to improve. Cheers, Dan.
  3. Daninvan

    Chestnut Cookies at the Beach

    Finally finally finally got down to the city log dump at the beach the other day. A friend had his eyes on some large horse chestnut (similar to buckeye) rounds that had been there since last fall. An 8 AM rendezvous was arranged, and just as I was about to leave the house I received a text...
  4. Daninvan

    Finally . . . Back for Some Milling on the Beach!

    Ramdad, I've built a few pieces using various woods that I've milled myself, it's definitely a little more satisfying than using store bought wood. I've only done one slab table, although I have another in mind. Mostly I prefer to do cabinets in the Krenov style. Also have done a shoji lamp...
  5. Daninvan

    Finally . . . Back for Some Milling on the Beach!

    Bob, you are right, my bowl buddy has a Stihl - good eyes you've got!
  6. Daninvan

    Finally . . . Back for Some Milling on the Beach!

    No, one of my 3120s. I took the extra one along just in case this one died, but it was great! I had them both tuned up about a month ago, they had been sitting for a while so I bit the bullet and took them to the shop.
  7. Daninvan

    Finally . . . Back for Some Milling on the Beach!

    After an absence of a year and a half, I finally made it down to the city log dump located on a prime beach in Vancouver. The last time I was beach milling was April 2015! Long story short, a few decent logs finally appeared in the log dump a while ago that I managed to get my name on. A couple...
  8. Daninvan

    Red Oak

    Yes I was also glad to only hit one nail. Of course no nails at all would have been better! But the damage was fairly minimal, I've hit other nails and objects like rocks that were a lot tougher on the saw than this one was. Definitely a risk in these urban trees, but overall I would have to say...
  9. Daninvan

    Red Oak

    Curt, Interesting on the ratio being an issue. I have not seen the thread you refer to. Let me know if that works for you. I use 50:1 these days.
  10. Daninvan

    Red Oak

    A fellow got in touch with me about an oak tree the city was going to be taking down on his street. The city had told him they would have a crew there to take it down on Friday at 8 AM, and that he could have all the wood he wanted from it. I agreed I would mill it for him and that we would...
  11. Daninvan

    Hemlock Milling, not at the beach!

    After a long hiatus I am finally back to milling. Went to a buddy's place yesterday and milled up a hemlock log he wanted to use for a fireplace mantle etc. It had been sitting in his driveway for a while and he had finally been instructed to 'get that thing off the driveway'! It turns...
  12. Daninvan

    Milling trees floating in the ocean!

    I have milled up a few logs that drifted onto the beaches of Vancouver. According to what I have been told, the city has a log salvage permit. Anything that drifts onto the beaches they use a loader to sort into piles to either send to a mill or a chipper. Some logs they also set out for people...
  13. Daninvan

    new project: milling BIG beech/mill build.

    My (limited) experience with beech is that it is very difficult to air dry without excessive movement. I've also had bad luck with cracking. I hope the kiln you are considering will help with your slabs. Here are a couple of threads on my experience milling and then air drying some 48" wide...
  14. Daninvan

    Back at the Beach, -ish

    More or less as you infer. City trees are trees that grow on city property (parks, boulevards, schools, public buildings, etc). If they have been taken down or blown down in a storm, then the trunk will often wind up at the city's log dump, which somewhat strangely is located on one of the...
  15. Daninvan

    Back at the Beach, -ish

    Yes it is a mix of logs that wash up and city trees that have come down. Most of the logs that wash in are not very interesting, typically skinny softwoods, and often full of sand to boot. The city trees are often very interesting and a good size. And many non-native species as well. However...
  16. Daninvan

    Urban Walnut

    So went back to the site today to get some more of this. I took my tree id book with me and I am even more certain now that it is butternut, or perhaps some hybrid/varietal of butternut. Unfortunately someone had been at it after we left on Saturday and took a couple of nice sections that we...
  17. Daninvan

    Urban Walnut

    I checked out the photos and the fact sheets for butternut and walnut at the Hobbithouse and I think you guys are probably correct. Also I expect that the slabs we cut will fade quite a bit as they dry, making them even lighter coloured. While it is possible that black walnut grows with a...
  18. Daninvan

    Urban Walnut

    Email came in from a friend on Thursday, introducing me to a friend of his who had a line on what was allegedly a black walnut. This guy had heard about it from a woodworker friend of his who had done a project for a guy who knew this lady who knew someone rebuilding a house where the walnut was...
  19. Daninvan

    Back at the Beach, -ish

    Forecast was calling for ten days of rain starting tomorrow, so it seemed like a good idea to head out today to the city log dump to do some chainsawing. Arrived about 9 AM with my regular buddy who is a bowl turner, it was a few degrees below freezing, blue skies and a gorgeous morning. A bit...
  20. Daninvan

    Douglas Fir - Not Exactly the Beach

    Probably something like that. Even trying to lift one end was well beyond where I dared to push my fragile back!
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