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27th November 2013, 09:37 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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27th November 2013, 10:23 PM #17
There will be plenty of blanks available, any particular size you are after? Welcome to come down too for a look. I am also chopping up the existing large blocks for firewood to make it easier for him to split them later. I'll start a new thread with photos on the weekend.
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28th November 2013, 09:49 PM #18
Its defs bluegum, certainly not cadaghi. E. Torrelliana is cream and brown, although upper branches tend to smooth and green, the butt - biggest logs have chuncky tesselated bark
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29th November 2013, 09:22 PM #19
Thanks Alan, I was hoping someone with some knowledge better than mine would chime in as to the species. The tree lopper just called it Redgum apparently. I was under the impression Cadagi was a red, but I've never cut one and you'd certainly know more about it than me. There are a number of these trees about the suburb in Melb and they do have a chunky brown bark at the base, only the upper sections have the green bark (this log is not from the base).
I've never seen a Blue Gum with green bark, can you elaborate what the defs bluegum is, so I can get the right species.
I started slabbing it today, beautiful timber, but very very hard and has a few sap veins. I'll post some pics when done.Neil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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30th November 2013, 07:49 AM #20
Neil, as for species.....ummm next...its a bluegum
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couple of bluegum pics to try and show bark colour and smoothness. First is an older log so the colour of the bark has been lost a bit, but you can see the kind of 'roughness' a blue might have. Second is 'fresher' logs, you can see the green bark and again a bit of the roughness shows in the back couple of logs, but still not rough like a cadaghi.
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Cadaghi, at the bottom they are very rough, as you get up the tree it smooths out a lot to a solid smooth green bark.
And the colour of the two timbers is much different...
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30th November 2013, 08:33 PM #21
Thanks Alan
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