Thread: English Elms at Bathurst

That really sucks. Even if they have to run a competing tender, how hard can it be?

Deserves a story in the Herald I reckon.

Stupid engineers.

Can you find out who is in the council and hates the mayor.
They'll take up your cause.

That's not an engineer, that's a beaurocrat. A real engineer would say "thanks for the beer, here's a log"

The mayor's phone number can be found here http://www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au/site/pages/contacts.html

as is the council's email address, just in case anyone was looking for it.....


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What a bleedin' waste. Fair enough if its some not so rare timber, even an old gum, but elm?!:mad: Make some money, auction it, whatever.
Didn't some disease wipe out most of UK's elm forests, so supplies would be limited evn there? Was it Dutch elm disease?? It sounds a pretty hard but useful timber, used in boat building and chair parts. Here are some sites I quickly grabbed, just in case you want to shed a tear for a chance gone begging...

http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk/species_elm.htm
http://diadot.com/wood/elm_european.htm
ELM, its grain being tough and curly makes it
not liable to split. If felled between November and
February (Winter) it has no sap. It is used in mast-making for
caps, bibbs, bees, and parts of tops.

Makes me want to weep...

Greg, try today tonight. Naomi will be interested in the story and she is a very powerful woman.

Today Tonight

http://www.seven.com.au/todaytonight/contact_suggest

OK. Thanks.
I've emailed Channel Seven and even if nothing comes of this, hopefully someone in Bathurst will read this forum note and contact their local paper to raise more fuss.
regards
Greg

No more ridiculous than Queenslands vegetation managment laws!:mad: Duarainga council have several dead/dying Budgeroo trees in their local park - dangerous to park users right! You would think they would have been happy to accept my offer to remove them free of charge - ha! They claim they have to apply for a permit to remove them and even then, the trees cannot be used for any commercial OR non-commercial purpose (have to rot away or become landfill) and cannot be removed from the shire. What a crock - just the sort of laws you would expect a shiny-assed, ignorant public servant to make from his city desk:mad::mad::mad:

This Makes Me Mad!!! :mad:

So, what can English Elm be used for?
What sort of cost does it sell for in Australia?

Wendy

Wendy, one of those links tells of its uses, but hard wearing stuff like tools, garden tools, seats etc.
For all the good it'll do I emailed Bathurst council and had a go at 'em!

Cheers,

Try an email to the local rag at Bathurst.

I despair sometimes over the narrow-mindedness of beaurocrats. Actually, I'll re-phrase that. I almost always despair over...etc, etc.

What a horrible waste of what is probably a very worthwhile lot of good timber. Elm is a lovely wood and some very fine furniture has been made from it.