Thread: Lucky Log opportunity

Great to see your pics Rob

I had opportunity to get hold of a rather large Chinese Elm (apparently, that's what I was told it was by the tree lopper) looks very similar to your elm, only bigger Anyway I slabbed it as an experiment, the timber was rather pale and seemed pretty standard, nothing special, but I think the Dang thing got bluestain anyway as I said, experiment anyway and got it for nothing too, so I'll see what they are like in a few months.

Good onya Rob

nice one rob.

tehre is another tree often called chinese elm that is not. chineese elm has good coulor and teh other has no grain or coulor.

got em all back yet?

Hi Woody,
I got a rubber tree a while back from the tree loppers, would have been about same as yours, mine had a bend in the middle so cut it thru at that point.... I cut it up into boards 100x25 mostly and other odd sizes, was no drama to cut, havent seen any borers or other bugs in it so far, the white rubber will ooze out a bit when u cut the bark.. specially when cut fresh, just let it dry and peel it off or wash with water, bark peeled off easily, colour is whitish with some small flecks of orange/tan throughout, nothing spectacular but allright never the less, exposed to the sunlight it was going an orange shade so it will most likely darken with age.

According to the wood explorer data base there is 8 species called rubber tree, some dark ones amongst them, many uses furniture/joinery being two... so cut him up seal stack and dry and see what happens....

Is it the one with the bit of rot in the middle???
If its not all soft, spongey and useless u might get some interesting colour change there?
Have seen the same thing in mango, tree starts to rot/die and goes brown, can look quite interesting. nail holes as well
Peter

Carl - Yep all home - yeah I thought it was a good one lol
Thought you weren't back yet?

Thanks PJT

Now that was a great haul. All power to you~~

Cedar Stump now acquired

Pic of Stump

Woody,
Do u plan on removing the dirt off the roots then mill or just cut the roots off then mill?
I would consider washing dirt off (it is a pain tho and the risk of hitting dirt pockets) then mill the whole thing as is..might find some very interesting grain patterns where the roots change direction, I have done a raintree rootball that I got from the tip, not as good as I hoped but your cedar might be different, something to consider
Peter

Thanks Peter - I intend to high pressure spray wash all the dirt off and then most likely slab it.
ight try and sell some who knows

Dunno if Carl will be interested in slabbing right through that root ball, I wanted to do it once, with bluey balls, but didn't have pressure cleaner and it just took too bloody long, never even switched the saw on for 'em

Besides, now I've done a bit more milling, cutting through the inevitable soil which will be stuck in the root mass somewhere, just won't be fun.

ill cut anything mate.

iv done 2 red cedar root balls here before. one had a 100mm patch of gravel in it that bluntend my chain i had to gring 3mm or teh teath to get them sharp.

dose produce some sweet slabs thow.

Onya Weisyboy - thanks
Stump has arrived home - see pics

Originally Posted by weisyboy

ill cut anything mate.

Oh Dear should we ask for clarification on the term anything??