Cadaghi

Ibanez · 4th October 2008, 12:21 AM

Has anyone had any experience with timber from very large rainforest tree that grows in the Kuranda area near Cairns called Cadaghi, cutting ,gluing, planing etc. I have come into about 40, 4metre slabs of it all around 65mm thick and it it very heavy, any ideas on what I'm in for.

Thanks Shayne

**journeyman Mick** · 4th October 2008, 06:12 PM

Shayne,
Cadaghi (or Cadagi, Cadaga) Eucalyptus Torreliana, now apparently known as Corymbia Torreliana is apparently the only Eucalypt to grow in the rainforest, although usually it's in the margins. It's a pretty good structural timber but a bit boring, colour and grain wise for furniture or joinery. Air dried density of about 920kg/m3, difficult to glue and sapwood is susceptible to lyctid borers.

Mick

Ibanez · 4th October 2008, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

Shayne,
Cadaghi (or Cadagi, Cadaga) Eucalyptus Torreliana, now apparently known as Corymbia Torreliana is apparently the only Eucalypt to grow in the rainforest, although usually it's in the margins. It's a pretty good structural timber but a bit boring, colour and grain wise for furniture or joinery. Air dried density of about 920kg/m3, difficult to glue and sapwood is susceptible to lyctid borers.

Mick

Thanks Mick I have also found it very abrasive on millings chains

**Tony Hunt** · 7th October 2008, 04:07 PM

They used to use it for building the frames of pearling luggers. Definitiely in the heavy structural timber category!

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