Thread: Help Identifying Timber

Well, it is eucalyptus of some sort. However there are thousands of them.

Clearer pics would be a yuge help. Try taking them in full sun (no shadows), detailed pics of the grain, end grain, after planing. At the moment I can only agree with Artful - it's a Eucy and it's pale.

Blackbutt especially the sixth photo, as a guess.

Thanks everyone! I took some more pictures close up in full sun today and will post them in the morning.

I have got heaps of this stuff out of older Canberra houses. How old is the house? Most of the 4 x 2" framing for ex govies (1960-70s vintage) is Eucalyptus pilularis (from the south coast probably) but I have also seen other species used including occasional Callitris. As most Euc forests have multiple species present it is pretty hard to tell which timber is which (Hence 'Tassie Oak' in reality being 3 or more species). In my experience when this stuff out of houses is planed up, the timbers characteristics tends to separate species but not by name. Those long gum veins are very characteristic of E. pilularis though.

Thanks pampelmuse. I'm not sure of the vintage of the house but 60-70's would be a pretty solid guess.
The full pieces I collected were 190mm x 50mm (~7.5" x 2") & 120mmx50mm ~(9" x 2").
Sorry its taken me this long to get the extra pics up its been madness here with work.

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Almost certainly E. pilularis. But as I said, in the same house frames you might come across what appear to be several different species of Euc including some which are very pale and more of the Tassie oak ilk....although identifying the exact species is guesswork. It's all good stuff though except for the staining from the rusting nails.

Excellent! Thanks to everyone who responded, you've been a huge help