Thread: Help! What's eating it?

Originally Posted by craigb

Why would you want tio exterminate a poor old huntsman? :confused:

They are pretty harmless creatures.

In fact, they are probably doing you a favor by preying on truly annoying things like mozzies and the like.

You are right, I was about 16 at the time, I have since learnt about the delicate balance of the eco system and usually leave them alone.

As for the mozzies, I have pet frogs in my workshop's draw-bridge-pond/moat in an attempt to control these, unfortunatly the pond creates more mozzies than frogs but oh well, balance! balance!
Now local neigbourhood cats have spread the word around about my frogs & I find them gathered around my pond like an entertainment arena and they appear to be holding some kind of gladiator type death game with them nightly. Maybe I should cut a cat door in my shed to let them roam - thats where all the mice are hiding eating that left over quaterpounder I forgot to finish while clamping up that awfull wood & glue mess last week.

Sorry to ressurect an old thread but...I looked at this thread as i use Jelutong a lot and saw that it was not actually answered...

Nothing was eating it.

The jelutong timber is the latex rubber tree. The holes and plugs are caused by metal spikes that are driven into the tree while alive to harvest the rubber. After cutting down and sawing into planks etc these are visible as scars that run at angles throught the plank from one side to the other.

The ones in this thread were there when the plank was purchased i am positive, sometimes they are hard to spot on a rough sawn plank and they don't all show up until you run it through a drum sander or something.

There is also a vine that will grow through the tree and leave holes and plugs in the finished plank as well.

Blockman