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  1. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Tried to find in account settings where to delete my membership. Can't find it so as this was the thread that sparked up the hall monitors to delete my post they should take extra pride in telling the site admin I want to drop my membership as I can't find the button to do so myself. To the good...
  2. KiwiBro

    Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

    Thanks. If memory serves me correctly, that was some old, dry Saligna. Love the Lucas because it works as it should. At first, it seems such a simple set-up but it's clear that simplicity has years of experience and clever thinking behind the design. They have largely resisted the frills and...
  3. KiwiBro

    the all aussie dribble thread!

    Been doing a bit of work with epoxy lately. First there was this: And the last nearly two weeks epoxied some plywood scaffold planks together to make stringers: and used the same plywood for the treads (burned them with propane torch) but rebated some strips into them and filled them with...
  4. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    That means Neil loses the internet today.
  5. KiwiBro

    Post up words of encouragement for Zogger

    G'Day Zogstar Thanks to you I can't cut a small bit of wood without calling it Zogger wood. It's your fault I got one of these: I don't think I ever read on AS a cross or overtly negative thing from you, instead always finding a positive way to look at things or at least to laugh at it...
  6. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Yes. The internet for today for that effort. Happy Birthday MM
  7. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Mate, you may think I'm crazy but just remember every mighty oak was once just a nut...that held its ground. Eventually you'll be kicking yourself for waiting so long to get started and will be taking a mental stock of all the wonderful potential slabs and brownie point winning furniture you...
  8. KiwiBro

    What finishing product to use?

    Osmo Polyx oil. Expensive but worth every cent. It's almost, all I use these days having resisted it for years due to cost, but it just does such a good job, is easy to apply and very durable. Cheap (if your time isn't included in costs) option would be multiple coats of a homebrew danish oil -...
  9. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Wood and I are just close workmates, nothing more.
  10. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Nice and tidy too. Could always tweak that 6400 up to 7900 (OEM) or 84c aftermarket big bore kit. Either way, it'll stand up on 36" bars in pine just fine. oiler might need a tweak too though.
  11. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    I agree mate. Some cracks and splits, etc look great in the right application. You can keep 'em and butterfly/bowtie inlay them as a feature, fill 'em with resin, rip a microwave oven apart to use the transformer to burn your own lichtenberg fractal patterns (google thunderstuck industries as...
  12. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Sure, the pith is generally unstable but not just the pith. Any board that can't handle the drying stresses is gonna degrade, move, crack, split, etc. Your species I guess must vary from most I encounter because sealer absolutely does make a worthwhile difference here. Unless of course I want to...
  13. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    The paint collection/recyling places here give their paint to community groups. I tried a while ago to get some off them but all the voices in my head didn't qualify as a community ;-)
  14. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    I'd get stickers right at the ends. But maybe your species are different. There's a superb booklet the Aussies put out years ago, about handling timber. I figure their gums demand the gold-standard in pre and post-milling handling, so if it's good enough for them, it'll be more than good enough...
  15. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    The bulk of our native timbers oxidise/season lighter/paler but the introduced species go darker.
  16. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    U&A, almost any sealer is better than nothing. If nothing else, some old paint will buy you a bit of time to settle on which sealer to buy. I stumbling across a guy selling off PVA wood glue in large quantities really cheap a few years ago. I water it down a bit and it seals so well I wish I had...
  17. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    News tonight said 6 week lockdown there starting about now? Do you trust the people coming in for physio? Ever wonder where the heck they've been or just take what precautions you can and leave it up to Allah? Nephew broke lockdown to come over to borrow rideon. I don't think has forgiven me...
  18. KiwiBro

    Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

    Fantastic! It' a blessing to open up a log and see what's inside. A bit like prospecting for hidden treasure. I'm not familiar with drying your timber species but those stacks if here would have stickers/fillets within a few inches of each end, the stickers would run full width, and the stack...
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