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24th December 2010, 03:20 PM #1Intermediate Member
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camphor
Hi all,
just thought i would show some pics of the camphor we cut recently.The bigger slabs go from 1.2m to 1.5 wide as you can see the colours are fantastic
Regards,
Rude.
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24th December 2010, 03:46 PM #2
Those slabs have great colour!! Bit sappy....still tasty though
Mapleman
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24th December 2010, 08:56 PM #3Intermediate Member
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Here is a pic of one of the smaller logs.
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24th December 2010, 09:36 PM #4New Member
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nice slabs ,should make some beautiful big tables .was it grown in red dirt country?
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25th December 2010, 10:01 AM #5
Good to see you on here Rude
I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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25th December 2010, 04:11 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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Its great to see such lovely timber come from pest trees
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26th December 2010, 09:35 AM #7Skwair2rownd
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Very worthy of a long droooooooooooooooooooool!
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26th December 2010, 01:56 PM #8
Likewise - Drooooooooool
Without meaning to divert the thread - I've got people begging me for camphor and can't find any!
Anyone know where I can get a log or 3?Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
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26th December 2010, 04:33 PM #9Intermediate Member
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sorry mate it has taken a long time to get hold of this load so i cant really part with any of these logs but i will have a lot of sawn timber and slabs for sale soon .if i can get the other load in january i may be able to help you out with a few then.
Regards,
Rude.
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26th December 2010, 11:03 PM #102-legged animal
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Every day we see semi loads of huge camphour logs going to the sugar mill just out of Murwillumbah where it looks like they chip them and burn them along with suger cane trash byproducts etc to power a steam turbine for the grid .You can smell the camphour as you drive past the huge piles of chipped wood and cane refuse waiting to be burned .The huge piles of chips make the 20-30 ton excavators moving it look like dinky toys. They get the logs for free as the farmers like it removed .Seems a wast to me .Some of the logs are really thick and must be very old.
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27th December 2010, 09:37 AM #11Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
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27th December 2010, 05:25 PM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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Being over in the west may leave me looking a bit silly on this one but would it be that the government dont sell it as a recognisable sawlog species so then the average Joe Blogs farmer doesnt know it to be viable as a timber resource. The farmer would probably only get $50 a tonne for it as a char log, but would get more as a sawlog would he not if he were educated?
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1st September 2011, 10:37 AM #13New Member
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I'm just stumbled on this forum and thread as I'm about to chop down a Camphor tree or two. I had intended on getting a chipper in and just chip the lot of it, but it seems people might want it.
The tree will be lopped on Saturday September 17th in Morningside, Brisbane. If people want the logs, I will cancel chipper.
Cheers,
Peter
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1st September 2011, 10:54 AM #14
G'day Peter,
You will still need a chipper for the non mill-able stuff but I have a tree-feller mate with a chipper so we might be able to do a deal.
How big are these trees? Dia at base, height etc.
Regards
Jamie Barnes
0414489556Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
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1st September 2011, 11:19 AM #15New Member
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Thanks Barnsey, I more meant postpone the chipper until people took what they wanted. I've got other trees I'm trimming as well so there will be plenty for a chipper. We're making a weekend of it as a mate wants to tidy up his mango tree as well.
As for the size of my Camphor. the one that is definitely coming down completely is approximately 10-12 meters high. I will measure the diameter of the trunk tonight.
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