Thread: Pepper Tree - worthwhile timber?

Its rubbish weed wood, chuck it away, the white resinous sap causes all sorts of problems too.

Al

Its a nice looking timber but I'm not sure if its very stable

Here you go One of my first posts

I cut down a medium size tree (Invasive roots) and had a play with the wood, found it to be soft and kind of corky, may have been my tree? I still have some large pieces to play with. Oh, it also stinks by the way!

I was in outback NSW years ago, way past Broken Hill, beyond the blackest of black stumps known to modern man.

Anyway, we caught an old Peppercorn tree that had been down for ages.

Hmm thinks I, good firewood.

So I hitch it up to the F100 and drag it for miles to base camp.
I dragged it through the fire thinking this big trunk will last all of 2 weeks burning slowly.

Yep, burning nicely.....

Neat morning there was nothing left but a pile of ash.

Its rubbish wood...

Any wood worthy would have burnt for ages.

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

I was in outback NSW years ago, way past Broken Hill, beyond the blackest of black stumps known to modern man.
Al

Lol - you musta been close to my place then. . .

and yur right. . .

Its rubbish wood. . .

Jedo

But it makes nice ash

Originally Posted by Jedo_03

Lol - you musta been close to my place then. . .

and yur right. . .

Its rubbish wood. . .

Jedo

Where abouts are ya?

Al

we used to rub the berries onto our hands after the headmaster had given us the cuts. it used to highlight where the cane had hit ya and then we couldnt do any more school work as we said it hurt to much to write or hold a pen.

Originally Posted by black1

we used to rub the berries onto our hands after the headmaster had given us the cuts. it used to highlight where the cane had hit ya and then we couldnt do any more school work as we said it hurt to much to write or hold a pen.

What a wus! At our school, it was 'No blood, no sympathy"

Can't stand by and let it be totally written off - it does have some merits.... check this one out!

I can remember a peppercorn tree that was trimmed back when I was a kid, a log about 40cm across and 50cm long was left in a heap, dead ready for reserve fire wood. Two years later it spring a shoot and started growing again. Talk about a weed.

I gather this is a different tree to " rainbow peppercorn".

cheers

Originally Posted by TTIT

Can't stand by and let it be totally written off - it does have some merits.... check this one out!

peppercorn BURL isn't the same as peppercorn timber
structure is all different in the burl
S'why it was tricky to turn it
S'why it held together in one piece
came up nice though...
Jedo

Many thanks for the comments, all. After reading through them I was about to send this piece to the father in law's firewood heap until I saw Mr Tit's post.

Excellent work Vern, by the way. Based on your finished result I'm going to have a closer look at the trunk section I've got before adding it to our national carbon dioxide output. Global Warming - what a crock!

I also appreciate the link to Australian Metal Powder Supplies. Did you get a pure brass powder, or the bronze alloy? What grade did you purchase? Also, did you end up finding a reasonable source for CA glue?

Do I have any more questions? Absolutely!