Thread: Timber milling Rockhampton

Hells bells - mango timber - finally found a timber that is not in Bootles.

Even when we lived in the tropics, I never heard of anyone milling or using mango - except the fruit.

Wish you luck in finding someone with a mini mill who can help. A photo might help.

You will probably find that commercial mills are not interested:

• three logs are not worth their effort,
• they do not know the ideosyncracies of mango, and
• garden trees may hide naties such as imbeeded bolts and wire.

Don't like your chances! I'm out in Emerald and we don't mill Mango here anymore as it is nearly always "loaded!" There is an old-wives tale that says driving a chunk of steel into the tree will give you sweeter mangoes . . . so when a mate first got his Lucas mill out here he hit a car axle in the middle of one, he had to learn how to solder new tips on the blade sooner than expected! Star-pickets, horseshoes, railway spikes, you name it, you'll find it in a Mango tree