Thread: Corymbia torelliana - 'Cadaghi'

I can only quote Exador in here I ve not any experience with it but its said to be a very underated timber similar to spotted gum

Ive cut up a couple of small ones, from just looking at the stickered stack seems to be drying ok, haven't used any of it yet, a few others here have cut it, Sigidi used some for roof rafters for lama pens (if I remember) seemed to be ok

Pete

Hey Pete, great memory!!!!

I've cut a fair bit of Cadaghi and I think it is really pretty, has quite large sapwood tho and the sapwood is Lyctus susceptible so you need to treat it somehow, but I've done step treads, roof battens, chopping boards, coffee tables, and a benchtop out of it all seem to be good except the step treads - but in defence of the step treads they had over 100m of roof emptying onto them and got a constant 'watering' as I didn't get to put the gutter up and the roof terminated over the top of them.
My advice halfdays is slice 'er up....if you don't want to I'll have it

Hi Allan, How's it going? I suspect by your bit of an absence u have been very very busy or nowhere near a puter or tied up with "other" matters. Hard to keep em happy aint it!!!

The memory mm sometimes it works! Maybe it was an association thing that stuck....roof battens and lamas....and maybe it was your diversification into the unusual....

Did the step treads just rot out quickly with all the water?

Hope it's all going well.

Pete

Thank you all for those comments. When I got back to the loppers yard I opened my eyes and immediately realised it was not a cadaghi. Talked to the bloke who cut it as well though he was unsure what species it is. Reckons he will drops cadaghi occasionaly and will bring them back to the yard next time.
Now have a sample of the bark and the wood. Will take it down to a friend of mine who has much more experience than me. The timber has a lovely golden wavy fibre/grain. Very tough.
Have never slabbed anything near that big before. Should be an interesting exercise. Lucky there are machines there that can move the slabs.

Originally Posted by pjt

Hi Allan, How's it going? I suspect by your bit of an absence u have been very very busy or nowhere near a puter or tied up with "other" matters. Hard to keep em happy aint it!!!


Did the step treads just rot out quickly with all the water?

Hope it's all going well.

Pete

Pete, yeah been a bit busy getting rid of the old family home, settling 'money' issues with the ex wife etc. that stuff is all over and some new things on the horizon for Al soon

Anyway Cadaghi step treads, they where still there when I sold the house, but I think they really should be replaced, although they lasted 4 years getting constantly hammered by so much water.

And yeah I'm doing well thanks Pete

Good to hear Allan hopfully you ll pop in here a bit more now then, Hope you dont end up going to far South

Originally Posted by Halfdays

Thank you all for those comments. When I got back to the loppers yard I opened my eyes and immediately realised it was not a cadaghi. Talked to the bloke who cut it as well though he was unsure what species it is. Reckons he will drops cadaghi occasionaly and will bring them back to the yard next time.
Now have a sample of the bark and the wood. Will take it down to a friend of mine who has much more experience than me. The timber has a lovely golden wavy fibre/grain. Very tough.
Have never slabbed anything near that big before. Should be an interesting exercise. Lucky there are machines there that can move the slabs.

Well ifn you do get onto any Cadaghi keep it, very pretty grain, good colour and can have a bit of wave in it. I've milled a few as they were planted around Awfulville some years back as a "bait" to keep the monolepta beetles away from the avocados. Which didn't work by the way. Go figure....no-one told the beetles. So quite a few folk planted 'em as windbreaks, of course just adjacent to the aforementioned crop.
To add insult to injury and stupidity they dropped a sticky exudate from insect activity on the foliage onto your car if parked beneath.
And I never had any trouble with borer in the sapwood in packs out in the field, strapped and covered with corro. Sold it before I could get around to making a table from it.
For what it's worth.
cheers,
richie