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2nd June 2016, 06:44 PM #1New Member
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Beefwood info
Hey all,
just received a large-ish log of beefwood and just wanted to see what it's good for, what it's worth, whether I should use it or whether I should sell it off to anyone who would have a better use for it..
its roughly 3m long, around 400-450 diameter (haven't measured, just had a quick look)
I know that beefwood is quite rare and you're not actually allowed to cut the trees down without some form of permission from council etc, but don't really know anything else about it.
any help/info/interest would be greatly appreciated!
will try to upload a picture or two.
cameron
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2nd June 2016, 07:11 PM #2
Try your pics again Cameron, last couple of posts were blank.
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2nd June 2016, 07:19 PM #3New Member
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2nd June 2016, 09:32 PM #4Skwair2rownd
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A dryland Greviilia - Grevillia Striata.
Aboriginal people used the sap as a glue for spear heads and so on.
Interesting timber but it bleeds sap for years. It is hard and dense.
I find it dirty and dusty to turn. Have seen it used in furniture.
There are seats in the Federal parliament building made from slats of Beefwood.
They are very attractive to my eyes.
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3rd June 2016, 07:27 AM #6
There is beefwood & there is beefwood! Some of it bleeds forever as others say, some finishes hate the stuff, it certainly is dusty to turn and it can have quite nasty effects upon people who have allergies to Grevilleas when they collect & process it. Is it valuable & rare? Not really. The piece in the photos has been down a very loooooong time.
Beefwood makes excellent survey pegs - second to none for durability! As a surveyor I have personally seen many many survey pegs placed on original surveys dating back to the earliest and even original surveys of western Queensland portions. Some are very reliably aged at over 150 yo in ground, or out of ground in black soil areas. Often a 150 yo peg will have a top that looks like a porcupine - lots of small spikes as the wind errosion has sand blasted out the softer material. Its inground durability is exceptional. Souvenier hunters & fires clean up more beefwood survey posts & pegs than rot & termites.
When surveying in the western downs country anywhere from Hughenden down through Boulia & Bedourie I have seen logs of beefwood lying on ground and have wondered "how many centuries have you been lying there supplying a home to lizards etc??"Mobyturns
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3rd June 2016, 10:26 AM #7New Member
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Awesome, thanks for the info!
Croc - I should have said 'I have been told' not 'I know', but glad you cleared that up!
Artme- I haven't turned any of it yet, a while back I made a little serving board out of a piece, grain and colour looks quite good. But was pretty dusty going through the table saw.
Mobyturns- great info, this one came from the Quilpie area, no idea how long it has been down, was sitting in the council yard apparently.
We pulled some bearers and joists out of an old building in Cunnamulla a few years back that was rumoured to be 100+ which I used for the above mentioned cutting board and it didn't seem to have deteriorated much in that time.
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I've milled some out in that upper desert country. Old yard posts so there was no blood left in them but they'd firmed up nicely!!! It lasts forever above ground but it rots off at ground level after about 40 years , probably the acid nature of the soil in a set of yards I guess.
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4th June 2016, 11:41 PM #9
Passed heaps on the Savannah Way near Normanton
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4th June 2016, 11:53 PM #10
The is a fair bit of small stuff, (up to 159mm diameter), growing on my block just outside Mareeba. There two varieties here that have been identified as beefwood, grevillea striata and g. glauca. The seed pods on striata are very similar to grevillea robusta, but the seed pods on g. glauca are quite hardand are often refered to as "bushman's pegs".
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