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 about 6 months ago and I only just got onto it. The beam comes from some 100+ year old wool store warehouse near Fremantle Harbour that was demolished about 20 years ago. Some real history there.
I cut 6 ~2" thick boards from it.
Cut like a hot knife thru warm butter .
This morning I milled up 4 short English Oak logs from a yard tree - my first time on milling this wood.
These are not my logs and when I took the job I told the client I was busy and would take 4-8 weeks to get to this job. Anyway I'm delivering tomorrow which is at the 6 week mark so I am pleased about this
All milled at 1 1/4" thickness.
Hit a very rusty nail on the last one log (red arrow) - shoulda paid attention to the black stain appearing in the wood.
BImetallic blade cut right through the nail but didn't risk a second cut.
I flipped the log and cut down to the first sign of stain.
Cut speed had dropped by ~50% but I managed to cut 3 slabs before stain showed and I stopped.
If I had hit the nail again I wasn't fussed as band is up for sharpening anyway.
I warned client about nails in yard trees and that he's up for a sharpening fee.
Apart from after hitting the nail, was again like a hot knife thru warm butter.
Boss just called to say there are more Oak logs coming in on the next truckload of logs.
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 about 6 months ago and I only just got onto it. The beam comes from some 100+ year old wool store warehouse near Fremantle Harbour that was demolished about 20 years ago. Some real history there.
I cut 6 ~2" thick boards from it.
Cut like a hot knife thru warm butter .
This morning I milled up 4 short English Oak logs from a yard tree - my first time on milling this wood.
These are not my logs and when I took the job I told the client I was busy and would take 4-8 weeks to get to this job. Anyway I'm delivering tomorrow which is at the 6 week mark so I am pleased about this
All milled at 1 1/4" thickness.
Hit a very rusty nail on the last one log (red arrow) - shoulda paid attention to the black stain appearing in the wood.
BImetallic blade cut right through the nail but didn't risk a second cut.
I flipped the log and cut down to the first sign of stain.
Cut speed had dropped by ~50% but I managed to cut 3 slabs before stain showed and I stopped.
If I had hit the nail again I wasn't fussed as band is up for sharpening anyway.
I warned client about nails in yard trees and that he's up for a sharpening fee.
Apart from after hitting the nail, was again like a hot knife thru warm butter.
Boss just called to say there are more Oak logs coming in on the next truckload of logs.