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28th April 2015, 05:11 PM #1Novice
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Seasoned Bull Oak trees potentially available for wood turners or carvers.
For now I'm just putting it out there, but am serious about finding a better market than firewood for some of the Bull Oak I have in my forest. It seems a waste to burn some of the seasoned full trees still standing, so if someone is genuinely serious, and is looking for this type of timber, I'm keen to talk turkey. I do have some photos, but the allowable size on these forums don't do them any justice. There is also loads of it lying on the ground.
Essentially I would prefer a personal inspection as there is also a heavily forested length of fence line approximately 800 metres long to be completely cleared to around twenty metres wide of any and all productive timber. The fence line area has no restriction of vegetation management and the property operates under a Native Forest Practice. The forest is situated 50km south of Chinchilla Queensland, not far off the Chinchilla-Tara Road.
I guess we start here in this forum. You let me know what you are looking for and I'll let you know if I've got it.
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Gleno.
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28th April 2015, 05:42 PM #2
Have you got any true botanical identification?
There are many so called Bull Oaks, there is the potentially valuable Allocasuarina luehmannii (Buloke) as it is the prised hardest (Janka) timber in the world, but there is also Cardwellia sublimis, Allocasuarina fraseriana, Allocasuarina littoralis, Casuarina obesa, Casuarina suberosa, Hakea chordophylla, and Oreocallis wickhamiiNeil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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28th April 2015, 08:43 PM #3Intermediate Member
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Allocasuarina luehmannii (Buloke) being the only one on the above list that occurs naturally near Chinchilla and western downs generally.
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28th April 2015, 08:48 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Assuming Gleno's farm is near Tara Qld it (buloke) is very likely to be a Casuarina (most likely Allocasurina leuhmanii) and not the tropical or coastal species (of Proteaceae family) mentioned as alternatives.
Gleno of course can confirm that but by the climate this Casuarina prefers (hot dry) it would seem to be the case.
A great wood for turning handles etc even though it is hard to mill and cracks readily along the rays.
Euge
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28th April 2015, 08:49 PM #5Intermediate Member
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28th April 2015, 10:53 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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I'm potentially interested in some. If it turns out to be Buloke let me know.
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29th April 2015, 03:46 PM #7Novice
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Hi everyone,
I am assuming it is the real deal, (buloke), as my property is near Chinchilla, and matches all the research I have done on it. I will have a go at trying to compress the images as soon as I can or over the weekend. The other species it is growing amongst is Cypress Pine, Iron bark and Red Gum, if that helps.
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29th April 2015, 06:11 PM #8
Agree with others in your area the likely Bull Oak is the Buloke, but there are also other Casuarinas. When you are taking photos, try to get needles and seedpods as well as bark etc.
Someone gave me some so called Bull Oak from out that way, certainly looked like the timber, but was quite soft relatively speakingNeil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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29th April 2015, 06:34 PM #9Novice
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Ok, try these photos.
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29th April 2015, 06:47 PM #10
If the last 2 photos are of the same tree, I'd say no it's not Buloke, the bark looks wrong. Got any closer photos of live ones?
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29th April 2015, 07:29 PM #11Novice
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No not yet, but will get on it next time I go out there, next weekend.
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30th April 2015, 12:31 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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The large rays in photo 28 certainly look like family Casuarinaceae.
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4th May 2015, 09:53 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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From cut end of the log shown the prominent rays, wood colour (red brown) and small sapwood is all consistent with buloke.
I am more familar with it growing in more sparse woodland eg in western NSW or VIC. It often grows with white Cypress.
Buloke is a VERY dense wood (ie dry heartwood sinks in water) easy test to do.
Euge
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7th May 2015, 06:01 PM #14Novice
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Buloke is a VERY dense wood (ie dry heartwood sinks in water) easy test to do.
There is plenty of cypress in amongst this stuff. I'll do the sink test over the weekend. It is very dense wood because the termites can't even chew through it, and is hell on my chainsaws. I'll also bring back some samples so they are closer to Brisbane and more pictures of the live trees.
Cheers everyone, thanks for the interest so far.
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10th May 2015, 12:38 PM #15Novice
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More pictures.
These pictures should provide the answers. The seeds and leaves match the drawings in my little tree book. passed the sink test too.
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