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30th October 2017, 12:24 AM #1
WA Salmon Gum
Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen
Bit quiet on the timber milling front, but here is a few Gems from Derek Doak, some extremely hard WA Salmon Gum. Derek reckons it is one of the toughest timbers he has milled
Enjoy
Willy
Jarrahland
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30th October 2017, 12:30 AM #2
Beautiful stuff Willy!
Looking forward to my first trip to see Derek, just need to get some timber racks set up and I’m going to go stock up [emoji7]
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Some info from the CSIRO book on Forest Trees of Australia
With its coppery smooth bark and dark green glossy crown in season, Eucalytus Salmonophloia are amongst the most beautiful trees in the WA wheat belt and mining areas around Kalgoorlie. Millions of these trees have been cleared for farming, milled to shore up mines for use as second class railway sleeps and burnt to run the boilers and pumps on the Kalgoorlie pipeline. This tree will grow well in areas of 250 - 500 mm pa rainfall so we should probably be planting more of them.
In terms of Janka hardness, here is an interesting list to show where it sits
4270 Gidgee {Acacia cambagei}
4190 Gimlet {Eucalyptus salubris)
3960 Dundas Blackbut {Eucalyptus dundasii}
3840 Red Morrel {Eucalyptus longicornis}
3480 Salmon Gum {Eucalyptus salmonophloia}
3370
Box Grey {Eucalyptus microcarpa}
Mallet Brown {Eucalyptus astringens}
Wandoo {Eucalyptus wandoo}
3200
Casuarina {Casuarina equisetifolia}
3125
Gum Grey {Eucalyptus propinqua}
Ironbark Grey {Eucalyptus paniculata}
Ironbark Red Broadleaved {Eucalyptus fibrosa}
Ironbark Red Narrowleaved {Eucalyptus crebra}
Sheoak Rose {Casuarina torulosa}
2920
Bloodwood Brown {Eucalyptus trachypholia}
Box Grey Coast {Eucalyptus bosistoana}
Box Yellow {Eucalyptus melliodora}
Ironbark Red {Eucalyptus sideroxylon} 2
2800
Box White Topped {Eucalyptus quadrangulata}
2700
Gum Red Forest {Eucalyptus tereticornis}
Gum Round Leaved {Eucalyptus denei}
Messmate Gympie {Eucalyptus cloeziana}
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30th October 2017, 10:41 AM #4
Very interesting, thanks Bob!
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30th October 2017, 09:49 PM #5
Looks gorgeous Willy
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