Thread: Value of Fine Leafed Peppermint Gum?

Just has a further look at some forum entries and found pretty much the same question from "wheelinround". Pretty much what I have already been told. My offer still stands though.

Good luck with it. Personally I have had no experience with the species.

Excellent firewood timber.
Some wood hookers down here stress the point that it is peppermint gum they are selling.

. I once had a few boards of it mixed in with some ash and after cutting to size I noticed some surface cracks and when stressed the timber would split. so took what I could back and according to my timber supplier it was peppermint that can only be airdryed but if kiln dried will split and crack

If the OP doesn't want to turn it all into firewood, perhaps he could mill a few logs being sure to only recover quarter sawn boards.

I recall reading that Tassie Oak if slabbed twists and cracks on drying, but if quarter sawn behaves itself through the drying process.

The leaves are particularly good for distillation of eucalyptus oil but need to be fresh, timber makes good firewood, never had any good enough to mill, too many gum pockets.

Narrow leaf peppermint gum is the only member of the peppermint family that is milled as a commercial timber. The sap wood is susceptible to Lyctus borer but the timber is not favoured by whiteants.

A look around the net

https://www.woodsolutions.com.au/Woo...ved-peppermint

And the black NLP version.

Eucalyptus nicholii — Narrow-leaved Peppermint, Narrow-leaved Black Peppermint

Perhaps mill it into absolutely gigantic pillars.... 30cmx30cm... Builders and architects would love them for out door features and chippies for pergolas etc.

I'd mill it into 60-70mm thick boards/slabs. Someone will want it one day. Keep an eye out for the next guy on here (and there most definitely will be one, and then another one, and then another one) who is building a workbench and asking for advice on which wood to use. Sell it to them. Otherwise throw it on here for a volumetric rate of $2000 per cubic meter. Someone will buy it.

Don't burn good wood. Didn't your mother tell you that would make you go blind?

I think the core question is if the OP does mill the timber, should he just slab the logs, or does he have to cut with siome care?

Slabbed, it might only be good for firewood, quarter sawn it may be stable through drying. or it might be the other way round.

The OP needs to know if he's going to try and salvage some of the wood.