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24th June 2015, 07:58 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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I win!!!
As you all will remember on the 3rd of February 2011 Far North Queensland was nailed by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi.
It crossed the beach - oh right about in front of this house -then moved inland, with the eye passing over Tully.
The town was a mess, as were a whole lot of other places in the immediate vicinity. Most houses damaged, some irreparably. Roofs gone, crops wiped out, boats sunk... y'all seen the news.
Included in that mess was my mill. The main shed standing but damaged beyond repair with rain pouring in over the gear.
Another with the roof totally removed and only the uprights remaining.
Two more with major roof damage - both caused by the aforementioned airborne roof.
And a horse shed with a tree on it.
With the big gear down all I had left was the Lucas, but a sawmiller is a sawmiller. So I cut that tree up.
(And about a thousand others once we got going again but this one gets a special mention).
Sooooooo... today, with me being a bit crook with the flu I decided I'd dress a bit of timber rather then play sawmills. And I pulled a pack off a stack and instead of the usual long sequence of numbers there, written in crayon, was...HORSE SHED.
Bit over a cube of timber in total, and not too shabby at all after a skip plane to shave a bit of dust off it.
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*grins*
I win ya bastard!!!
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24th June 2015, 08:23 PM #2
Nice, what do you reckon it is?
Looks a bit like sally wattle but I'm not sure.Cliff.
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24th June 2015, 08:47 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Brown Sally is correct, Cliff.
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24th June 2015, 09:33 PM #4
Nice
Cheers
DJ
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24th June 2015, 10:29 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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At odd times we'll get to cut Acacia melanoxylon ( blackwood) A. Aulacocarpa (black wattle), and A. Mangium (hickory wattle).
We just throw them all into a pack together and put Brown Salwood (BSW) on the side - there's more grain and color variation inside a species then between them a lot of the time.
A. Aulacocarpa tends more to Birdseye and bark enclosures then the rest but the other two can be very hard to tell apart.
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24th June 2015, 11:37 PM #6Senior Member
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Imagine if you didn't get that storm you would be walking past the horse shed wondering( as most sawmillers do) what sort of boards you might get out of the tree standing beside it
cheers pat
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25th June 2015, 07:39 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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