Another decent trunk to the tip

**dai sensei** · 21st April 2009, 08:53 PM

Got a call today from one of my sites saying the contractor had just dropped a decent blackwood. I asked what size and I was told it was 600mm dia max, and there was 2 lengths around 2m long just waiting for me to take them away. They would hold it for me today, but tomorrow they had to go. So I dropped everything and headed off with the big ute assuming I could just lift them into the back.

Arrived on site to find a forest gum, not a blcakwood, in 2 lengths of around 5m long and 1m min dia

. I wasn't inducted for that site, so couldn't come back with my mill either. It had to go today, so it is heading for the tip

. Blo-dy shame, it had large branches at 1m centres where the trunk was around 1.5m wide, so the grain would have been fantanstic.

I've trained them to call me when they drop a tree, now just have to work out how to get them to call me earlier

.

**weisyboy** · 21st April 2009, 08:58 PM

dam

sutch a waste.

**BobL** · 21st April 2009, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Blo-dy shame, it had large branches at 1m centres where the trunk was around 1.5m wide, so the grain would have been fantanstic.

Bummer ! I really wanted to see the blue beast and the big bar in action!

**weisyboy** · 21st April 2009, 09:06 PM

how many calls like this do u get?

**dai sensei** · 21st April 2009, 09:34 PM

Depends on how much the feds give us, not many sites being cleared down my way. This was an interchange upgrade, I didn't even know there were any large trees to be cleared, but the project manager knew my interest in timber. To work on road sites you need a heap of tickets these days.

I will put the word out if there are any big jobs around with plenty of trees to be had. Usually only the branches and smaller trees are mulched, the big trunks get taken to the tip so are up for grabs usually.

**weisyboy** · 21st April 2009, 09:39 PM

yer i know all about tickets.

i have been in contact with a few mobs but to get anyhting you have to tender on doing the entire clearing.

**echnidna** · 21st April 2009, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by dai sensei

so it is heading for the tip

. Blo-dy shame, it had large branches at 1m centres where the trunk was around 1.5m wide, so the grain would have been fantanstic.

I've trained them to call me when they drop a tree, now just have to work out how to get them to call me earlier

.

You need to pay for the logs you scrounge,
A slab per truckload sounds a reasonable price.

I'd head down the tip with a slab under me arm too

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