On 05/05/2021 09:22, AJH wrote:
On 05/05/2021 09:05, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 04/05/2021 22:43, AJH wrote:
On 04/05/2021 21:16, newshound wrote:
The first choice electric one seems to be cutting square to the
chain, which is wrong.
It could well be wrong but chains sharpened for ripping can be square.
who uses a chainsaw to only rip?
Quite a few people run saws as miniature mills, sometimes with two saw
heads. They tend to specialise inĀ* "character" timbers which would
otherwise be uneconomic to extract and sell
https://youtu.be/WNcTLMPd6ao
It amuses meĀ* because they value the defects all the big mills I used to
supply would reject.
Yebbut that's not really relevant to the sort of work we here are
putting our saws too - oversized pruning in the garden!
I thought that band saws were the rip tools of choice...
There is an upsurge in small scale milling, often with
lightweight,portable bandsaws and dimension saws with the likes of
Lucas, Woodmiser Woodlands mills simply because most of the home grown
sawmills have stopped trading since GATT made the economics bad and
their "previously developed" sites became attractive for housing.
I don't really see why Gatt should have impacted UK sawmills..,dealing
in UK timber.
But certainly the ability to take e.g. a Woodmiser to clear up old
timber and turn it into seasonable planks rather than firewood, changes
things.
I was looking at te wood quality of the maple I just sectioned and
thinking how many guitar necks it would have made.
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