Thread: Gate posts and footings

yes gum top box is good in the ground.

what i know as grey box however is not. you may know it as yellow box or white box.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

yes gum top box is good in the ground.

what i know as grey box however is not. you may know it as yellow box or white box.

Grey box is Eucalyptus moluccana

Yellow box is Eucalyptus melliodora.

What you know as grey box is, in fact, yellow box

A lot of bastardisation of timber names happen in places, the real test comes when you go to sell the timber out of your area & nobody knows what your on about & they wont buy it, it pays to know your stuff.
regards inter

yer i know what you sothoners call them but i have no trouble selling qld bluegum as qld bluegum to qlders cos we all know what it is. same with flooded gum. we all know what flooded gum is. but if i was talkign to a southener id use the names they know.

If you look in the AS 1684.2 there is a section on timber species & properties with trade names for timber species, some of the names you have called your timber dont exist in there & you have already confused 2 readers with it..... might be a message in this somewhere for you.
regards inter

I know it is "nice" to continue using "local" names for our timbers but it is all really very confusing. Just have a look at the number of posts where discussion / confusion over species is dominant. IMHO, the sooner we get to using the scientific name (or part thereof) the better. If we wait for it to be done officially it will never happen. So...........it is places like this forum where the members have to start the ball rolling.

Carl, I'm not far from you, just South of the border, so I would have thought that our "blue gums" were the same. ie E. saligna. This timber is not suitable for in ground use. Durability class 3 whereas a good in ground timber will be class 1. (ref. Wood in Australia - Bootle)
Regards.
Bill W.