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    Hey folks,

    I'm a noob, can you please help me identify this wood? Considering making a large picture frame with it, found it on the side of the road
    Here is what it looked like when I found it:PXL_20210926_072920537.jpg

    Here it is after I milled it:PXL_20210926_081349129.jpgPXL_20210926_081346133.jpg

    Here it is next to some bunnings pine to give you an idea of the color (almost pinkish?)PXL_20210926_083355214.jpg
    It's not very hard, I can dent/scratch it with my thumb nails, no idea if that helps.

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    Looks a lot like Douglas Fir (Oregon).

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    Its a pine of some kind. Oregon perhaps. Douglas fir is the main wood for known as Oregon far as I know. Anyhow should be nice and dry and ready for whatever you want to make.
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    I would go with Oregan also.
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    Pardon the pun, but I'm going against the grain - to light in colour for Oregon and not enough grain hardness / differentiation in early / late wood. Wood density for both Oregon & Hemlocks will be in the range 0.4-0.5 so not a great help.

    my pick Western Hemlock Scientific Name: Tsuga heterophylla

    or possibly Eastern Hemlock, Canadian Hemlock. Scientific Name: Tsuga canadensis.

    Western Hemlock | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Softwood) (wood-database.com)

    Eastern Hemlock | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Softwood) (wood-database.com)

    Information on Oregon Wood Species | Oregon Wood Innovation Center (oregonstate.edu)

    Both have been imported into Australia in quantity.
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    I think that what is called Oregon here is just a trade name and hemlock is in the bundle of species. I worked on ships back in the 70tes and we brought ship loads if wood into Sydney. The most of it came from BC in Canada but some did come from Oregon and Washington.
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    thanks everyone! juding from the db, it looks like western hemlock!

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    Hi MT. I would have said Oregon (or Douglas Fir) but had a look at your links. Both hemlocks are described as having no distinctive smell whereas I think Oregon does (when cut). Maybe this could help with identification?

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    As Mountain Ash says, oregon has a very distinctive, and quite pleasant, smell whereas hemlocks are essentially odour free.

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    Aren't trade / common names great. I agree about the smell, a very useful ID feature.
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    when cut I find it to absolutely stink. Sort of a sickly fart smell. Not sure if that's because of possum pee perhapse? If they were part of an old garage roof perhapse?
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    Aren't trade / common names great. I agree about the smell, a very useful ID feature.

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    I believe that to be Douglas Fir.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robertye112 View Post
    when cut I find it to absolutely stink. Sort of a sickly fart smell. Not sure if that's because of possum pee perhapse? If they were part of an old garage roof perhapse?

    That sounds like early stage fungal attack - aka dry rot. Oregon has a pleasant smell. If you rub it lightly with your finger you might get very slight surface powdering; sometimes you can see blue/black/brown fungal veins in the wood (but often you cannot).

    Treatment with one of the penetrating fungicides is then recommended.

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