Rose Gum

**InterTD6** · 1st October 2010, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by West OZ Mark

Not sure personally Inter as I am not experienced in cutting Rose gum etc but there was borer in the Cambium layer but nothing major. I have found borer in Jarrah and Karri that I have cut but same thing that mostly in the Cambium layer. Only on the odd occasion I have found a log that looks like Swiss cheese.
My biggest problem here is white ants.

...Mark

Thats one of the type that likes it & leaves a zig zag pattern behind with not too much damage, the other borers range from 10mm to 25mm & just seem to wind there way through from the heart to the bark. The 10mm one can spiral up a tree like a helix popping out every meter or so wrecking the timber.
regards inter

**nifty** · 12th October 2010, 12:57 PM

Looks like it would have been an interesting log extraction, didnt happen to involve some heli logging did it

Something i hope to do one day just for the buzz

**MAPLEMAN** · 12th October 2010, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by nifty

Looks like it would have been an interesting log extraction, didnt happen to involve some heli logging did it

Something i hope to do one day just for the buzz

I think this log is going to stay put where it is,a little too problematic to move!!

**weisyboy** · 12th October 2010, 09:27 PM

is it floating yet?

the amount of rain we have had it would almost be some ware down stream.

**MAPLEMAN** · 13th October 2010, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by weisyboy

is it floating yet?

the amount of rain we have had it would almost be some ware down stream.

Too much weight in this fellow to be going too far

Think we've had enough rain though

,just too wet to mill at the moment.

**weisyboy** · 13th October 2010, 09:23 PM

we havent been able to get logs out for 3 weeks.

got some milling done today, had to drive threw the creek to get to teh mill, got me floor all wet,

got teh tractor stuck twice trying to snig a few logs down teh road, and got teh bobcat sunk to the chassis,

but got 1.5 cube of logs cut in about 4 hours of mug swingign fun.

spent teh arvo geting gravel outa the creek to firm up the ground.

**InterTD6** · 13th October 2010, 09:45 PM

I tipped out 480mm from the rain gauge last week, luckily I had a few loads of logs on the dump to get me thru.
I would be knocking & rolling 1/2 a meter out of that fallen tree to see if it has any good timber in it.
regards inter

**MAPLEMAN** · 13th October 2010, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by InterTD6

I tipped out 480mm from the rain gauge last week, luckily I had a few loads of logs on the dump to get me thru.
I would be knocking & rolling 1/2 a meter out of that fallen tree to see if it has any good timber in it.
regards inter

It has a pipe around 300mm at 8m,but the log is still 1200mm wide,so there is plenty of wood left in him. Would do a deal if someone came in and milled it; i am too busy at the moment

; the log is easily accessable,just got to be docked a dragged out of creek.It massive , need a skidder maybe an excavator to move it

Can mill it in the paddock though

**weisyboy** · 13th October 2010, 11:03 PM

i can mill it right where it is. no need to move it.

thats the beauty of teh lucas.

might have to wait till the creek goes down now.

**MAPLEMAN** · 13th October 2010, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by weisyboy

i can mill it right where it is. no need to move it.

thats the beauty of teh lucas.

might have to wait till the creek goes down now.

Job's yours

**MAPLEMAN** · 24th October 2010, 09:46 PM

Anyone want to mill this ol' beast,in exchange for some timber,before it rots back into the earth? I have too much sawlog to mill already!

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