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18th January 2021, 06:40 AM #1
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Northern Silky Oak
My uncle shows up at Christmas with this beautiful piece of Silky Oak that was the top of a lecturn from a conference room at the Farleigh Sugar Mill I’m Mackay. The piece is 660 x 760 x 22 so plenty of usable timber and I believe the best I have seen. It was made post WW2, so 70 odd years old. I will stow it away till something special comes up but just look at the colour of the Northern variety.
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18th January 2021, 07:41 AM #2
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I can't see any joins - is that a single piece? If it is it came out of a good-sized tree.....
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19th January 2021, 07:13 AM #3
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Yes there is a join half way up and there is a slight angled section at the top with a shallow trench for pens etc
Originally Posted by IanW
I can't see any joins - is that a single piece? If it is it came out of a good-sized tree.....
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19th January 2021, 07:55 AM #4
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It's been well joined, & the grain has been matched nicely - even though you've assured me there's a join, I still can't see it clearly.
The reason I asked is because it would have taken a big tree to yield a radial section 660 wide - at least double that in diameter plus more to avoid pith & sapwood. According to the CSIRO "Forest Trees of Australia" Cardwellia can reach diameters of 2.2M, but I never saw a tree anywhere near that size myself, the largest I have seen wasn't much over a metre dbh. However, that was mid-60s, on a block that had been cut-over several times, so any big ones had probably long gone.
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19th January 2021, 08:44 AM #5
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Now the Wet Tropic forests of North Qld have been protected,species like N.S.O have a chance to rebound and grow into mature specimens Originally Posted by IanW
It's been well joined, & the grain has been matched nicely - even though you've assured me there's a join, I still can't see it clearly.
The reason I asked is because it would have taken a big tree to yield a radial section 660 wide - at least double that in diameter plus more to avoid pith & sapwood. According to the CSIRO "Forest Trees of Australia" Cardwellia can reach diameters of 2.2M, but I never saw a tree anywhere near that size myself, the largest I have seen wasn't much over a metre dbh. However, that was mid-60s, on a block that had been cut-over several times, so any big ones had probably long gone.
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