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Hi,

Thanks Lawrence. Trashing the stands after their useful life by munching up the timber products as you say must be catered for in the price but what a waste of useful material. With a bit of planning all this material could have been collected and reused but unfortunately as is the case with big companies they don't worry about such things.

When I worked at Brooks one of my responsibilities was looking after waste; I used to get companies in to collect 45 gallon drums of waste oil; waste paper/cardboard and have scrap pallets and metal collected all going for recycling. One of my few perks of the job was to keep an eye open for anything useful for my workshop. One day a Colchester Triumph lathe magically appeared in my timber department it being deemed as not accurate enough so was being scrapped. A phone call by me with an enquiry asking the usual question "how much" got me the Colchester for £25 which was its scrap weight value and I paid £100 for a a crane delivery to our garage at home. This is a good example of a big multi national company wasting a lot of money; the lathe was easily worth £600 if sold privately. I used to obtain lots of useful items all for a phone call to obtain permission to remove from site many items being totally free. The skips and scrap bins were heaven?

Thanks for the timber drying information Lawrence; I too have books kicking around covering the subject which I have always found to be of interest. Also many thanks for the Logosol information; I've just watched the video which I've seen before covering the use of the Logosol set up. I could enjoy playing with such a toy but unfortunately I'm unable to use such a log converter here as our bungalow is built on a steeply sloping site so handling anything not just logs can be dangerous because everything wants to disappear at high speed to the valley bottom?

I watched the guy using the Logosol physically lift the end of the log on the rack but my recent log was 20" in diameter and no way could I lift such a heavy log onto the rack unaided; just lifting a small section was very heavy work indeed. With a level site though I could enjoy such work and switch off from the world.

I wish it was sunny and warm all year round then I could stop moaning most of the year about the dire weather and crack on with lots of interesting projects because when the sun shines life is wonderful and I've got lots of toys to play with; perhaps if ever we move a Logosol might appear one day?

Thanks Joe for adding the Dremel pictures; it looks to have a comprehensive accessory kit with it? I can see it being very useful for its intended purpose but being so lightweight perhaps I would find little use for it because my projects tend to be much heavier. I do have a couple of decent compressors so possibly a "die grinder" would be a more substantial tool for me?

Kind regards, Col.