Thread: Stringy Bark pic - can you identify ?

Going by your location in your other thread, the pic and what my Trees of Victoria and Adjoining Areas book says, I'd say Messmate (Eucalyptus obliqua)

Thanks DJ.

I did a search . It is suitable for under cover building and protected external projects. Can be used for framing as long as under cover , internal flooring , furniture, plywood has interlocking grain.
Relatively easy to work with, glues and bends well and accepts paints and stains .

Sounds usable, dunno if I could sell any of it though people might prefer to sort out top shelf timbers rather than just an ok as it can also be susceptible lyctid attack .

Cheers

Might be tall, but it doesn't seem to have much size to it for milling

cheers mick

you might get some fence timber out of it if your lucky & its a durable species
( not big or clean straight logs )
regards inter

Pretty small, make good slip rails.

iv cut smaller and got good timber hey allan.

If they are giant bracken ferns in the pic & all those holes in the trees are not old dry spike limbs, this bush could be a potential gold mine.
regards inter

Hi guys

That pics from the RE ad , all I had handy but it's just the front entrance where it's mostly all pretty scrappy.
Inside there's 1000's of 20 mt high dead straight trees ranging anywhere between 5 or 6 in in diameter at base to a ft or two at base, in perfect condition. Roughly say around power pole in size would be about the most common.
But in between there's also lots of skinnier ones as there tends to be in thick bush, say 6in at base .
For those it's a shame the timbers not that suitable for exsposed outdoor use because they'd make fantastic rails for horse yards or something , or even a log cabins - you'd have whole wall lengths in just the one log by the 100s. Just thinning those alone a little would do a good size cabin , probably a couple of cabins actually.
That stuff would be the easiest firewood you'd ever cut too , you'd just cut the tree , it falls , then you'd just chop perfect logs all the way to the end , no splitting no nothing but what a waste.
Mind you the last thing I'd want to do is clear the block but even to just thin it out a little for a house site and some daylight through areas , your still talking a hell of a lot of logs.

Cheers

Originally Posted by InterTD6

If they are giant bracken ferns in the pic & all those holes in the trees are not old dry spike limbs, this bush could be a potential gold mine.
regards inter

If I get your meaning , I don't really remember any ferns growing out of trees but there is some monster ferns in the ground in batches, 2 and 3 mts high.
I remember when I was living up on the Sunshine Coast , allot of the blocks for sale had 100's of blackboys on them .
So if you bought a block and could be bothered there was usually enough blackboys in areas to just about payoff the block , they can dig them out and sell them at around 100 bucks a pop.
Pretty amazing though and a real shame but with most people that bought a block, the first thing they did was call in a bulldozer get the blocks would scraped clean , up into a heap and burnt- what sacrilege .
Other estates up there had beautiful big giant white gums in perfect condition. Same thing , the first thing they'd do is bulldoze the lot .
Pretty bloody amazing how that waste was even legal really isn't it.

Cheers

Hey you know those mobile saw milling guys , how thick do the trees need to be before they can come in and slice it up I wonder ?

Cheers

As Carl said above, we've sliced some pretty small stuff...

Personally on a mobile job I'd like to stay above 300mm dia, but I guess you cut what is there when you turn up hey?

dj,i dont think they're messmate maybe brown or red stringy?

I was tending toward red stringy too Charlsie, but wasn't sure if up here it is the same tree down there???

Originally Posted by charlsie

dj,i dont think they're messmate maybe brown or red stringy?

You could be right charlsie, I'm just going of the info supplied and what it says in the book for the area, book says no for Red Stringy but possible for Brown Stringy.