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never mind the cup look at the table and tablecloth made from mahogany lovely legs too
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I love that picture Bob and also agree about the table and tablecloth, I think most people would treasure a piece of furniture like that.
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definitely mahogany i worked on the timber vic with proctors etc they got it out the parlour were it had a big nastradamus on it (feet is correct henry)and invicta what is the hardest wood in the world/, hah hah shiver me timbers lad
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Great photo Bobhamobob. b wrote:Wow what a cup that is wonder where it is today Bob Fantastic picture
Bob when I was last home I visited the new museum and they had a lot of stuff and silverwear related to Carters(of interest to me as my Gdad was one) from memory I believe there was a huge cup in the collection that had associations with Bootle I may have a picture will have a look.
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Lignum has been relegated to number 2 or 4 depending on your source, Matt.Matt wrote:Hardest wood is what you pack ships propeller shafts with Lignum Vitae
also used as guides for high speed round saws that I used to change in sawmills
it had to be cut to size with a metal hacksaw.
Matt
The Buloke found in parts of Oz takes it now. It's a type of Ironwood.
There is also a South American ( Amazonian ) Quebracho ( not sure on that spelling ) which the trade call Axe Breaker.
Cheers Ken
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lignum vitas it was also used to make bowls for ( bowling greens)not to eat soup out off, yes it was used for propeller shafts has its self oiling, green heart grows in the everglades and is used for Lock gates docks and canals it breathes under water but get a splinter from it and your finger goes septic more or less right away within a week you see a red line going up your arm and have to get penicillin injections : :But a lot of you WOODEN know this, i worked for the mersey dock and harbour board and was second man on the ADZE
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Nor me Bob, until recently. I did almost 50 years in Timber Trade and never heard of them.bob. b wrote:Educating me never heard of them.
When I was a member of Institute of Wood Science, Lignum Vitae was hardest but new discoveries all the time as jungles cleared they find new species in tropical parts. Ken
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invicta,the winner of the cup must have needed a horse and cart to carry it, bet you were a good fairender,though 50 years on the timber wow
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Hi all this is the same type of "gang saw" I used to operate for the
last 7 years in the sawmills.By then technology had done away with Lignum Vitae
500,000 board feet in an 8 hour shift with just a eleven man/woman crew
https://youtu.be/mmvGq0tYQVo
Matt
last 7 years in the sawmills.By then technology had done away with Lignum Vitae
500,000 board feet in an 8 hour shift with just a eleven man/woman crew
https://youtu.be/mmvGq0tYQVo
Matt
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hi gang,i bored out many a tail end bearing made from lignum vitae in my dry dock days (rain/ hale and snow). regards billy.
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hey matt /we were posh we had two saw mill in bootle one called BILLOWS in Pacific road and one on derby road by st mary's cemetery chapel street,cant remember the name, right opposite the queens pub but whats all this to do with a cup a table and tablecloth with feet
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LIGNUM VITAE is the hardest wood, but can you tell me if your worked in the timber trade what is a FAIRENDER and whats a ADZE used for i have done both with timber
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We did not do "hand" woodworking Tommy even though I have used an adze
but I do not know what a "fairender" is.
The mill I worked in was the most high speed, up to date and most modern(at the time I retired)
in Western N.America. The first mill I worked in only put out 250,000 board feet and had 100
men per shift 20 alone just pulling the boards off the production chain by hand.
Matt
but I do not know what a "fairender" is.
The mill I worked in was the most high speed, up to date and most modern(at the time I retired)
in Western N.America. The first mill I worked in only put out 250,000 board feet and had 100
men per shift 20 alone just pulling the boards off the production chain by hand.
Matt
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WatsonTommy wrote:LIGNUM VITAE is the hardest wood, but can you tell me if your worked in the timber trade what is a FAIRENDER and whats a ADZE used for i have done both with timber
Hiya Tommy. As Ken has mentioned, Lignum Vitae is not the hardest wood, a quick google brought this page up.
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-artic ... est-woods/
Without googling; I believe an Adze is a sharp sculpting tool used for hollowing out or shaping wood. Haven't got a clue what a Fairender is.
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Enjoying the woodwork lesson here, learnt so much
Even know what a fair ender is Tommy..
Four man gang.. (Two on the ground passing timber up to person at centre of trailer, who uses a Bratt to pass timber to the fair ender (person who keeps timber level at front)
Even know what a fair ender is Tommy..
Four man gang.. (Two on the ground passing timber up to person at centre of trailer, who uses a Bratt to pass timber to the fair ender (person who keeps timber level at front)
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Timber used to come in Random Lengths, say 8' to 20' but was sold by the content per package in board feet (msf) or cubic metres (m3)
Today it is sorted to length , say 2.4m up to 6.0m in all same size packs.
The Fairender was responsible for squaring off one end of the pack for ease of loading and count. Don't need them today with length sorting.
Many years since I heard that word Tommy.
Cheers Ken
Today it is sorted to length , say 2.4m up to 6.0m in all same size packs.
The Fairender was responsible for squaring off one end of the pack for ease of loading and count. Don't need them today with length sorting.
Many years since I heard that word Tommy.
Cheers Ken
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So random length Ken?.Have never seen that since 1970 when the Japanese market
took off and everything was 4"x4" 8', 12' ,13' and 20' in length.
Our whole Eacom mill in Tahsis had to be re-tooled to accommodate 13' lengths
and special grading rules just for Japanese 4"x4".Big pain in the you- know -what
but a HUGE market.
So now back to Bootle May Day and those wonderful horses with their equally
wonderful horse brasses etc.
Matt
took off and everything was 4"x4" 8', 12' ,13' and 20' in length.
Our whole Eacom mill in Tahsis had to be re-tooled to accommodate 13' lengths
and special grading rules just for Japanese 4"x4".Big pain in the you- know -what
but a HUGE market.
So now back to Bootle May Day and those wonderful horses with their equally
wonderful horse brasses etc.
Matt
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no offence but talking about timber, there was a wood called ******* wood because it had no origin, and was used for shoring up cargo on ships it too was a hard wood , as we used it for podgers (skids ) we put them between timbers when loading timber on our h.g.v trailers you couldn't do anything else with it except use it for cock wood and everybody took a bundle of cockwood home in there little army gas mask bags that had your sandwiches in, a little tin the top half had sugar bottom had tea,and condensed milk wrapped in grease proof paper, to make a billy can of tea on your break, before we went to work we would set the fire with rolled up paper cockwood left over ashes some coal on top ready for the first up, to get the kids up for school they would put a match to the fire and the liverpool echo as a fender, me mother had a big pan and a kettle on the fire all day if you didn't eat your dinner or tea it went into the big pan and any visitors would get a plate of scouse or a cup of tea, nothing was wasted as we had nothing to waste