Thread: anyone any idea of this timber

wow - brilliant grain in that log. I reckon it's redgum. You've got a beauty of a log there. Do you have any ideas for what you might build out of it when it's dry?

thanks for that have no idea what will use it for,milled and stacked and will leave for a few years to dry

I'd call it red gum.

If it was cut over here it would be called blue gum.

I agree, "REDGUM" , nice solid timber, works well, bit hard on tools { keep them sharp }
polishes easily, turns well.
made a great coffee table out of redgum for my lounge room, looks fantastic

good luck. Baz.

Interesting. My dad spent his life in sawmills and he would have called it bluegum. It is hard to specify a species as forest redgum, river red gum and blue gum all look similar when cut. You need to know where it came from to have a more specific idea of species. It could be E saligna, terretcornis, or several others. Take your pick.