Thread: Milling Euodia in Buderim, QLD

Originally Posted by TongueTied

My neighbour has cut down a very large doughwood or Euodia tree last week. I mentioned the lead to this in the thread here. I happened to be away but asked him to save me a small piece of the trunk. Well, he seems to have saved most of the tree for me. I'll post some photos tomorrow. The wood is very light colour, about the same colour as bread dough. Now, I'm going to need some assistance dealing with all this wood. First off, does anyone know someone who does portable milling in the Sunshine Coast area, specifically Buderim?

Seal the ends then take it up to Maleny wood show, 30/4-2/5, plenty of millers doing demos and someone should be able to cut it for you. I hope to be there too

Phil
Bring it to me if you decide to take it to Maleny as i am not that far away....MM

Transport is going to be a problem. My neighbour tells me one of the trunks is 800kg so I don't know how I can get it to Maleny or over to Cedarton. That would certainly be easier and preferable to take it to you in Cedarton.

Here are a couple of photos of the 2 logs. The longer one is about 2.5m and about 800mm diameter. The smaller one is close to 2m long and about 1m diameter.P_20160403_172024.jpgP_20160403_172012.jpgP_20160403_171955.jpg

Phil
Don't forget to end seal logs and keep an eye out for borers...they love the stuff although as the weather cools and humidity levels drop,they will become more scarce
Lovely looking billets b.t.w...MM

It also spalts faster than anything, so unless you want that, hit it with some fungus treatment

How quick and how do I treat it? I have already sealed the big logs as best I can. However, it has been sitting in the weather unsealed for just under a week before I got back. Should I cut off the sealed ends, treat and reseal? Would that be the best approach? Also, what product would you recommend?

If you are milling ASAP, wait till they are cut and then spray or soak. I use a boron (for bugs) and antifugal stuff from the hardware/nursey (for the blue stain) but this stuff does breakdown with beautiful black spalting sometimes if left wet in decent chunks.

It would be a good timber to spalt yourself using some local fungii, that orange stuff on the side of rotting timber may be a good one to try, and of course no antifungal. You stack the trunks with the growing direction upwards, with some crushed fungii underneath, and keep the fungii mix at the bottom moist.

Hi, I am based in Sydney. My son lives in Buderim. Is it possible for me to get some off cuts, enough to make a couple of trinket boxes from (and get on the plane). Can you SMS me on 0408204805 to discuss. I love psalter timber. Cheers Neville Warner.

I headed up yesterday to give Philip a hand with his log, not sure why but I thought there was only one , to be confronted by two logs and a heap of blocks. Today we got stuck into the blocks, cutting bowl blank slices, then attacked the smaller but longer log. Bit too long for my rig so docked it at 2.1m leaving a short log that will make good coffee table slabs. Had some big lumps on one side so the first slice was pretty big and I subsequently blocked up the cant for more bowl blanks and carving blocks. Nothing like the smell of mouldy bread.

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All was going well until I started the second slice. It was hard going, that became even harder the further I went, and I'd just give the chain a a touch up filing so it wasn't blunt. This stuff is soft like pine so it wasn't until the bar appeared at the other end, the problem was very apparent, the bar was bowed ~40mm

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I tried a few things but the next slice had the same result. So I decided my touch-up did something to make it dive down . Off came the rig and a new chain installed that fixed it. Managed to get 4 decent slabs off it and another half slab as there was sill plenty of meat at that end (all photos are of the remaining log after a slice).

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There was still plenty of meat down one end so I ended up slicing it up into large bowl blanks.

Tomorrow I'll start on the bigger log. I've already taken a decent slice off one side, that will become the top after rotating the log, but leave some sections where we will get 2 number 1.2m wide slabs and probably ~0.8 for the remainder. I've flipped the photo to show what it will look like as it is milled. The funny colours are due to my end seal over the fresh end docking but the remainder is white pain/PVA glue Philip did previously

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I have a got a heap of Boron + Borax + antifungal to spray it with tomorrow after milling the big one

Today went well and we finished slabbing the bigger log.

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Got 6 good slabs. Turned out actually 2 large trunks that joined a meter from the bottom, so the 3rd slab shows a heap of bark inclusions and mud where the two met. The other only had a few bark inclusions, a branch stub and a few other small features. Some of the shots show the timber with a yellow tinge, but that is only the spray of Boron and Anti-fungal we coated all the pieces with as they were milled.

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Tomorrow I will mill up the remaining chunks into yet more woodturning/carving blanks. The trailer is certainly full even though some of it is being left behind for Philip.

Feeling pretty stiff and sore at the moment that's for sure. Getting to old, for this stuff, but my new winch attachment worked a treat, no more pushing the mill through the log. I did have one of the brackets bend however, hence the length of plywood helping reinforcing it, so there will be future improvements to be done

Here's a short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAVz...ature=youtu.be . Slow and steady when you are using a 5' bar an only a Sthil 660 chainsaw milling a 1.2m wide beast.

Tomorrow I'll finish slicing up the larger leftovers and cleaning up.

I love the winch set up. Will have to rig my saw up to something like that. Sure beats being bent over all day.

Also, How flat/level do your boards turn out with the winch?

Very slow video

Originally Posted by Emit

IHow flat/level do your boards turn out with the winch?

Much better than zig zagging that you normally do whilst pushing

Originally Posted by Pagie

Very slow video

Yes mate deliberate, at 1.2 wide with only a 660 I don't want to push it, also using what I call my triple skip tooth chain (ie single set of teeth with 2 link spacer, with 8 link gap between sets) to minimise wear on chainsaw.


Edit: Just noticed the link didn't work , fixed now