Brisbane Woodies - "free" mango wood.

[Big A]

Brisbane Woodies,

Our son and DIL live in Hendra and have a mango tree that they are going to get rid of. It is fairly big, particularly at the base and would be a metre or so in diameter. It has been lopped in previous times and there are some scars down low where the cuts have healed, so it may have some rot in it from this. It also might have the suburban disease of bits of metal in it.

Is there anybody in Brisbane that would be interested in wood from this tree? I will most likely be in attendance and helping as I want to get some of the interesting bits. So far the plan is for the boy to rent a skip and for dad and the boy to cut bits off the tree until the skip is full, or the tree is gone. I have not gone into the stump grinding part with him yet.

It would be a shame to waste it if the wood is any good, but I don’t know what demand there is for mango down there.

Thanks,
Alister.

[Treecycle]

It also might have the suburban disease of bits of metal in it.

I am interested to know what the reason for this is. I only just read another post today Mango (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=194428) which referred to the same thing.

[dai sensei]

I am interested to know what the reason for this is. I only just read another post today Mango (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=194428) which referred to the same thing.

Mango, plus a lot of other fruit trees, produce more fruit with iron. Unfortunately a lot of people interpreted this as the tree needed nails driven in :o. Often the trees were also good for cubby houses too, consisting of timber ladders nailed on the trunks :o The third reason is people nail signs on big trees.