not to bad for a friday

[weisyboy]

allan came down to dress up some slabs for us. nice blegum, 2.4-4m long and 750 wide, 6 all up.









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itgnta-Qurc

sorry about the [I have typed a profane word that is automatically changed by the forum censored words program I should know better and could be banned for doing it] phone vid

[terrifictimbersllc]

Looks like fun.  Are these slabs dried?  If not why dress them?

[ely]

they look plenty dry to me. i am thinking they just put water on it to show the grain in the picture.
it looks like red oak here at my house, not sure what they call it there.

ps. keep the monkey off the equip. :D

[weisyboy]

they are dry but ti was raining so the surface got wet.

[clww]

Pretty wood there!

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Looks like a good friday Mate  ;) ;D 8) I take it that is the first youtube clip of Al's 10-30 in action  ??? I have the planer disk for mine but have only dressed about 5 or 6 cube or about 2500bft of beams with it It dose a bloody good job  ;) ;D ;D 8)

Regards Chris

[sigidi]

The things you find of yaself when ya look around!!!! hahaha

I knew Carl took some pics of the planing head workin, didn't figure I made it into the pics though ;D

The slabs where dry, the planing head works much better when the timber is dry, I'm still amazed how good a job it does ( I gotta remember to spin the teeth around when I go back to Carls to do more slabs)

The timber was what we call Bluegum, others down under call it Forest Red Gum, sometimes you get a nice big fat tree like this to pull slabs from, but a moth has deposited it's larvae in it and the DanG things leave inch to two inch fat holes through ya slab  >:( then ya get other times when the slab is just perfect...



and a close up of what she really looked like straight off the saw...



This log was 4.5m (almost 15') long and up to 1.2m wide (4')

[Meadows Miller]

Thats A nice lil bit of fiddle coming up in that slab Al it will look a treat when its all finished up well in a table Mate  ;) ;D 8)

[weisyboy]

ahh the dreaded shot gun grub.

shee dose a good job on allans mill, not so good on my old girl, to much vibration.

[sigidi]

Who's fiddlin with what Chris?

Yeah I am impressed with how nice a finish it gives, I also like how you can vary how good the finish is by just taking a smaller or bigger bite and then slowing down or speeding up the travel down the rails, so especially when it comes to knots and figured timber you can slow right down and make 'em come up like glass, then drive through the straight grain and it still looks magic