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6th September 2013, 11:07 PM #1Senior Member
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Milling Sugargum
Hi all
Back from holidays and straight back into the timber work. I have been lucky enough to be given 12 large (1-2m diameter) sugargums to salvage. Wondering if anyone can give me a few ideas on what can be milled from it, be best way to mill it and any of the pitfalls. The logs vary from 400-800mm head logs as well as the big butt logs. Some butt logs have a white ant pipe, but still have a good 600mm of millable timber around the hole.
Cheers
James.
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6th September 2013, 11:31 PM #2
Haven't milled sugargum before but picked up a couple of logs recently and was advised to seal the ends really well and mill sooner rather than later as it tends to degrade the longer it is left.
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DJ
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7th September 2013, 03:30 PM #3Skwair2rownd
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Can't say anything about the milling but as DJ said you need to seal the ends
The timber itself is hard and dense and.....makes great firewood!Last edited by artme; 11th October 2013 at 08:44 AM.
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8th September 2013, 12:02 AM #4Senior Member
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I know nothing about Milling but I can say that Sugargum Burl is to die for.
Cheers Bob.
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10th September 2013, 11:11 PM #5.
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Have milled about 1/2 a dozen of these
Some pics here
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f132/n...illing-108713/
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12th September 2013, 10:06 AM #6Member
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It's a great timber. Class 1 durability reported in the attached reference.
It has a number of uses:
Sugar gum profile - Department of Environment and Primary Industries
I would like to grow some on our block but it appears to not do so well in wet areas like Gippsland.
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12th September 2013, 03:15 PM #7Jim
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Grows fast in the Wimmera where we used it as firewood.
However, it is beautiful in furniture and takes polish really well.Cheers,
Jim
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12th September 2013, 06:03 PM #8
Reminds me a bit of Grey Ironbark...very pretty stuff.How easy does the saw go through it?MM
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Thanks MM
I don't fuss too much about the top plate filing angle, it's somewhere between 5 and 10º.
BTW with a bit of care I can get the same finish with stock chain with 25º top plate angle. I reckon 90% of finishing problems with chain saw mills is due to operators trying to push them too hard. The extra minute or two I can save per cut by pushing them harder and generating a poor finish is well and truly consumed in extra surface prep needed once the slabs a dried.
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11th October 2013, 07:28 AM #12Intermediate Member
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I've just made a bookcase from it...beautiful timber! Very hard and heavy, but very stable timber, stays straight once machined and like others have said, takes a beautiful finish. Has some nice varied colours in the grain. If you are using it for firewood, that is a terrible waste in my opinion
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28th October 2013, 12:01 PM #13Intermediate Member
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Hi there,
I have milled a truck load of sugar gum before, mostly into rails. I think it has a durability no. 1. It is like red box to mill.
You could use it for nearly anything, flooring, decking,furniture. Not sure what the structual grading is.
Good stuff though.
Mal.
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