Thread: do what with oregon

Originally Posted by Wongo

And this one.

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Wongo I'll let you keep the Oregano just give me the Tiger Myrtle


Steve

Oh oh. Have a look at what Petesemple said. It is really hopeless outdoors. I once went to pick up a truckload of oregon 6x2 that had been store in an open shed for three years and it had turned to rubbish.
Go the rocking horse ! By the third one they get pretty good .

I don't know about the outdoor unsuitability, actually. I think that - painted - it would be very bloody tough.

There are pictures here (https://www.woodworkforums.com/f213/o...kbench-158196/) of weathered timber - a workbench and a major roof beam. Further down you can see there was still very good timber under the weathering.



But I was forgetting about my ladder that I picked up from the roadside ...

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It is tough and flexible and god-knows how old. I found another one the same years later which had been cut into 1m sections ... I picked it up to save the hardware and the rungs. Sawing across sections of the uprights sounds like running your fingernails over corrugated cardboard ... it is nothing like radiata pine.

I think the harder strands run through the timber something like the woody threads that run up palm trees that make them strong, flexible and highly resistant to snapping and crosscutting.

Cheers,
Paul