Milling after Marcia

**JackAttack** · 25th February 2015, 06:02 PM

Marcia Marcia Marcia! She huffed and puffed and pushed over a whole bunch of trees at my grandparents farm. This is going to be a bit of a three pronged post so we'll see how we go.

1. Anyone on here (or know anyone) who would be interested in a fair bit of work milling approx a dozen (probably more) logs. There's some spotted gum, gum top box, blue gum, blood wood, iron bark. Each of them will be mainly milled into structural lumber (except blood wood and blue gum) however I'm going to grab a few slabs of each and also other cuts to use with furniture and what not.

2. In all of your experiences, could we move the logs into say a 3 or 4 piles and whoever it may be could move from each pile over each day? Or would it be better if they can all be in one spot?

3. There's also a number of large large tea trees, we've asked a local timber mill before and they weren't interested because they said it blunts their saw blade too quickly, has anyone milled them before? How bad is it? Is it a matter of paying a bit extra?

4. (maybe there's a 4th prong) I'm very new to woodworking, any recommendations or tips for uses for the above timber in furniture? Any make particularly good side tables or coffee tables etc? I imagined making a floating bed out of the blue gum but simply cladding a pine frame with the blue gum rather.

Anyway, I've asked a hell of a lot in there, but any feedback would be welcome. It'll be a little while till we've prepped all the logs yet, but we really want to get the ball rolling so this isn't something that keeps getting put off and then it's 2020.

Cheers guys, some photos attached (spotted gum, blue gum, gum top box)

**JackAttack** · 25th February 2015, 06:16 PM

Photos are a bit swapped around- gum top box, blue gum, spotted gum

**Sigidi** · 27th February 2015, 07:47 AM

Hi Jack attack, I can mill them for you. Its good you want structural timber, coz as far as I know, I'm the only mobile sawmiller in Brissy qualified to grade timber.

Where are the logs? Feel free to ring me, I'll send you a PM.

**John.G** · 27th February 2015, 02:12 PM

Ti-Tree might depend a bit on which Ti-Tree it is.

Cut them off and if they're pale looking timber with a whitish looking bark sorta like a paper bark they may or may not be okay. Dunno the species name but locally that'd be called white or grey Ti-Tree and it's a pretty good batten timber but not really regarded as structural. If there's a spiral looking grain forget getting much out of it straight, if there's black looking patches in the wood forget it because it's full of silica and as your local miller told you; impossible to keep a sharp saw up to it.

If it's got a reddish grey flaky looking bark and the timber is reddish it's likely Red Ti-Tree. If so it'll run F14 structural, though it's most highly regarded for batten and fascia because of its natural rot resistance and the fact you can screw into it easily.

**artful bodger** · 27th February 2015, 06:00 PM

The gum-top box looks like it has a few nice burls on it. Don't forget them for the wood turners.

**JackAttack** · 2nd March 2015, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by John.G

Ti-Tree might depend a bit on which Ti-Tree it is.

Cut them off and if they're pale looking timber with a whitish looking bark sorta like a paper bark they may or may not be okay. Dunno the species name but locally that'd be called white or grey Ti-Tree and it's a pretty good batten timber but not really regarded as structural. If there's a spiral looking grain forget getting much out of it straight, if there's black looking patches in the wood forget it because it's full of silica and as your local miller told you; impossible to keep a sharp saw up to it.

If it's got a reddish grey flaky looking bark and the timber is reddish it's likely Red Ti-Tree. If so it'll run F14 structural, though it's most highly regarded for batten and fascia because of its natural rot resistance and the fact you can screw into it easily.

Great advice thanks mate! The one you mentioned that has spiral grain, could it be any good slabbed? Obviously a bit of work to level it out, I just saw something recently that the article only mentioned as eucalyptus and was a beautiful pale tone and grain through it

**JackAttack** · 2nd March 2015, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by artful bodger

The gum-top box looks like it has a few nice burls on it. Don't forget them for the wood turners.

Yep I spotted them, I've been musing over the idea of making my brothers and old man "scotch boxes", with the burl cut correctly could it be suited to something like that? Excuse my ignorance if not

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