Thread: Advice

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.

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

Originally Posted by Sigidi

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

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, 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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Thanks Alan