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  • #782
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭webpal


    looking to build a table tennis table that will most likely be outside or in the shed most of the time. Any recommendations on most suitable 8x4 sheet I could use?



  • #783
    Listendernow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭Listendernow


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122529675#Comment_122529675

    Fair enough if they are rough; I am mostly just asking where can I get hardwoods rough, pao or otherwise near Louth? It's a bit of a trek to go down to Dublin for it, and I would like to shop local if at all possible.



  • #784
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Not timber so apologies if this is off topic but I have a box of 200 8x2 slotted steel wood screws and probably a similar quantity of 2" floor brads that I'm never going to use so if anyone here wants them give me a shout.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #785
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    I've got a number of lengths of tongue and groove mahogany that was used on the body of a horse lorry.

    It has been out through a planer to remove the varnish.

    What would be the value of this? I'll measure the boards later when I get to them.



  • #786
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Have a look on Strahan timbers website to see if there's anything similar. Are you sure it's mahogany?



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  • #787
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122789996#Comment_122789996

    Not really. I'll put up a photo.



  • #788
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Photos

    IMG_20241102_111108.jpg IMG_20241102_111027.jpg IMG_20241102_110958.jpg IMG_20241102_110723.jpg IMG_20241102_110641.jpg


  • #789
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    are there many screw holes? that'd limit its use. if you don't know what sort of wood it is (i don't) i guess it'd be very hard to put a price on it.



  • #790
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    I think from memory there are holes at 24" centres.

    I thought it was mahogany, but looking at the grain I'm not sure. That was what I was told.



  • #791
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,182 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    My guess would be sapele and probably not worth a whole lot.
    A salvage yard might be your best bet.
    Failing that it’s donedeal for whatever your happy with.



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  • #792
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    who will buy it will also boil down to how usable it is. if there are screw holes every two foot, you're essentially selling two foot lengths so a buyer would need to have a use case which calls for that size stock - two foot long, probably less than an inch thick, maybe four inches wide?

    could be laminated together i guess, for thicker slabs.



  • #793
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122790633#Comment_122790633

    I'll burn it before I deal with all those halfwits on dung deal!

    Might get someone to take a close look at them and let me know what timber it definitely is.

    I've also got mahogany door frames and a few doors that were salvaged from a site clearance. Any value in those?



  • #794
    dathi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭dathi


    lauan /merenti or

    African mahogany, khaya



  • #795
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    might be best to find a mens shed or local woodturning group and see if they want it? where are you based?



  • #796
    allycavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭allycavs


    Hi I want to get nice wooden gates as opposed to composite or steal gates which is all I can find in Google. Gap between pillars is 3.7 metres. im based in cork city. Does anyone know a place/joiner that supplies/makes and fit wooden gates in cork please let me know



  • #797
    Flaherty94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Flaherty94


    Looking for some air dried white oak for steaming for a boat, any suppliers near Galway or around ireland that would deliver?



  • #798
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,593 ✭✭✭Harika


    The bottom of my easy grower rotted through.
    Looking to replace it and found:
    https://www.diy.ie/departments/osb-3-osb-l-1220mm-w-607mm-t-9mm/1696233_BQ.prd

    Would that do it or not last long?

    image.png


  • #799
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i don't think OSB is weatherproofed; maybe some WBP?



  • #800
    Citizen Six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭Citizen Six


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123119038#Comment_123119038

    I use polycarb in the bottom of any planters I build. And I line the wooden sides with plastic.



  • #801
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Hi.

    Would anyone here have any experience working with baubuche? I'm thinking of buying a worktop and using it as a desktop on sit/stand legs, so wondering if there are any special considerations working with it (edge routing, straining for example).

    Thanks!



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  • #802
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,593 ✭✭✭Harika


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123119893#Comment_123119893

    Thanks that's a great idea. Do you use L shape brackets or beams to hold it up?



  • #803
    Large bottle small glass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    IMG_20250131_132109.jpg

    There's a typical view of my soon to die ash.

    30 years old.

    I'd like to use the wood for various small projects, but my question is what is minimum size that sawmill would be interested in.

    The best of the remaining trees that are disease free or disease free in the trunk is between 200mm-210mm DBH.

    Is that of any use commercially



  • #804
    Citizen Six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭Citizen Six


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123120117#Comment_123120117

    I used angle iron fixed to the wood.



  • #805
    deandean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭deandean


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123120285#Comment_123120285

    That's such a shame. All your hard work…

    The guys who make hurleys might be interested in the bottom metre or so.



  • #806
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,032 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i think straight grown ash like in the pic is not what is traditionally used in hurleys; that they prefer a slight kink in the bottom of the trunk.



  • #807
    Large bottle small glass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123181765#Comment_123181765

    The hurley lads have taken what was useful.

    The killing thing is nearly all the seed Dieback came from imported plants.

    A few months before the ACRES scheme was launched, which has led to an unprecedented demand for native plants, Coillte shut their largest nursery. Coillte or the department never spoke to each other of course.

    The end result is the importation of native plants from Belgium and elsewhere. New diseases in our native plants is very likely.

    If there is a more incompetent department I haven't seen it.



  • #808
    Halycon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Halycon


    Hi All,

    Just wanted to share a place I have bought some hardwood from in the West Cork area. Its McMahons in Dunmanway. You can buy rough sawn lengths of 8ft (2.4m) of various hardwoods such as:

    PXL_20250220_114050357.jpg
    • Ash (Pictured)
    • Beech,
    • American Oak,
    • Poplar,
    • Iroko,
    • Walnut
    • Sapele.

    They will home deliver locally, but you can bring a handsaw or battery saw if you need to get it into your car. (pay first!)
    Usual caveats apply, you need to check for twist and cupping, you are buying as is. They are not a hobby shop, but were not actively hostile to me buying a small quantity. They sell by cubic foot.

    I bought two boards, the White Oak was €107 per ft3 and Ash was €55 per ft3.
    I have previously only really bought small bits of PAR Beech online from the carpentry store and Abbey woods so this was a new experience as an inexperienced hobbyist.
    Hope this is useful



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