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    Spent the day finishing off some tuart and the moved on to some small Robinia logs.


    Pretty Grain



    Washed down and getting ready for the drying shed.


    The slabs on the left are from a small swamp sheoak that has no reason not to get milled so that got done as well.


    Close up of swamp sheoak


    Stacked and stickered.

    The bigger slabs underneath the Robinia are the tuart. Boy that timber is hard and the robinia by comparison is like butter. It's certainly the softest stuff I have ever milled.

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    i dont know what robina is but it sure look nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by weisyboy View Post
    i dont know what robina is but it sure look nice.
    I heard it's also sometimes known as black locust?

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    Hi Bob,

    A good day's work. The Robinia looks like it would make good stock for boxes.

    Thanks for the photos.

    Cheers
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    Hi Bob

    Awesome grain! I'm with Pops, I reckon the robina would make some amazing boxes/furniture.

    cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by RufflyRustic View Post
    Hi Bob

    Awesome grain! I'm with Pops, I reckon the robina would make some amazing boxes/furniture.

    cheers
    Wendy
    I agree, - I think hear it a few things in that direction!!

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    I'm with Pops and Wendy!
    Reckon some of that gnarly end would have made striking bowls.

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    Welldone Bob, nice grain and neat drying stacks to.

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    Hi Bob,

    Yes , I also heard those whisperings. So,....

    Is it dry yet? Is it dry yet ? !!! Can you build something soon to show off.

    We will be waiting you know.

    Cheers
    Pops

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    I know this is a massive grave dig but I cut one down recently and I was expecting a single pale colour the whole way through. I was wrong, the heartwood went from a fairly bright yellow to a very dark brown.

    I felt pretty bad putting it out for the council pick up but I have no use for it and can't be bothered waiting for it to dry. Damn pest of a tree anyway, I'm expecting a million suckers in the next few weeks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ubernoob View Post
    I know this is a massive grave dig but I cut one down recently and I was expecting a single pale colour the whole way through. I was wrong, the heartwood went from a fairly bright yellow to a very dark brown.

    I felt pretty bad putting it out for the council pick up but I have no use for it and can't be bothered waiting for it to dry. Damn pest of a tree anyway, I'm expecting a million suckers in the next few weeks.
    Why waste it, it is a beautiful timber sort after by turners and bow makers. Why not mention it here for free pick up for others to get
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    The area I'm from in The U.S., Central Tennessee, is absolutely loaded with the stuff and yes, we call it Black Locust. Robinia pseudoacacia.

    It doesn't grow to a particularly large size in my experience, which is uncommon for trees in that area. Most of our local hardwood species can get over 24in diameter, but I don't know of many BLs which are over 12in. It's also a fairly unsightly, gnarly looking tree which is commonly removed and rarely found outside of genuine forest.

    It gets the rep of being the hardest thing around with the exception of Bois D'arc, which is known elsewhere as Osage Orange and which we just call Bodock. It is, however, laughable compared to the harder woods in Australia. It barely even matches up with the softer end of the eucalypt spectrum and is nowhere even remotely close to the Acacias, but you know how people are about their local woods...

    I think it can be a bit "stringy" when you work it. It's durable and interlocked, so is commonly found as fenceposts and exterior cladding (think barns), but its most common and well respected use is as firewood. It burns extremely hot for a long time and it doesn't pop. My cousin is obsessed with it. He likes to go on and on about how it's the best firewood in the world. I just smile and let him have his moment, with visions of Ironbark and Gidgee fires dancing in my head.

    P.S. I can't see the photos. Likely a problem on my end, however.

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    Aaaaand now I realize this thread is eight years old....

    *facepalm*

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    Here are the photos again, I keep everything!

    The stuff on the left is Swamp Sheoak, the Robinia is the stuff on the right.
    All other photos are robin - its is one of THE softest woods I have ever cut,
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    graincloseup.jpg
    Robinia1.jpg
    shed.jpg
    stacknsticker.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    ... its is one of THE softest woods I have ever cut...
    Hah! That's awesome. I've gotta tell that to the folks back home.

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