Thread: Rose Gum?

Could easily be a Grandis. Not a very prominent lignotuber though.

Take lots of care when drying and you should be right. I don't like it much personally since I find it's too prone to splits and collapse, but I think InterTD6 has just about made his house out of it, so he might know more about how to treat it than I do.

Originally Posted by Exador

Could easily be a Grandis. Not a very prominent lignotuber though.

Take lots of care when drying and you should be right. I don't like it much personally since I find it's too prone to splits and collapse, but I think InterTD6 has just about made his house out of it, so he might know more about how to treat it than I do.

Was growing in a fairly well protected spot,which may explain absence of lignotuber.Is the collapse of grain severe?Cheers

Nice log!!

Rose Gum, otherwise known as Flooded Gum, does behave as Exador says. Used a lot for veneers.

looks like flooded to me.

cracks and collapses like ####.

not much good for anything. a log that size should not be to bad thow.

Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN

Was growing in a fairly well protected spot,which may explain absence of lignotuber.Is the collapse of grain severe?Cheers

It can be really bad, but cut into scantlings and strapped it should be OK.Don't even think about slabbing it.

It's not especially strong and it's quite brittle as well and the ones I have done have had lots of tension in the log, including one that was even bigger than the one you've got - 1700 diameter at 3m and still 1400 at 8m. It's just one of "those" species, like scribbly Gum but without the figure.

Thanks for the info folks,didn't realise it was so unstable.Has anyone slabbed it before?Cheers

I think (could be wrong) that flooded gum was used for box making for fruit-boxes before cardboard was used as it could be end nailed without splitting?
Greg

I have seen it used as flooring and it looks quite good.Never realised it had reputation for splitting or collapsing during seasoning though.They use it in Nth Qld extensively for roof trusses,so you would imagine it would have to be reasonably stable for that application..

flooded has to be cut over 30mm thick to produce 19mm flooring.

it was cut widely for packign cases. cos it cut easy and nails without splitting, case baords were 1/4" and 1/2" thick and 2, 3, 6 ,8 adn 1o inches wide.

i have slabbed a few but never saw the slabs once dryed as they were mobile jobs. customers were warned adn teh slabs were cut at 65mm.

Think i will steer clear of it them,thanks heaps for the advice,saved me alot of time and effort,Cheers

It looks like rose gum but its a little hard to tell at that stage of the bark drying like that, it could also be sydney blue gum as they grow in very similar areas & at certain times of the year its very hard to tell them apart from the appearance of the bark.
Usually if a rose gum falls over on its own they are full of termite damage & could have a massive pipe with only a shell of good timber over the pipe, then they are prone to grub damage which bore holes on the log as big as your thumb, they tend to have a lot of gum pockets from smaller grub damage, growing near water they can have a lot of internal shakes which they suck up full of water. Apart from all that its a nice looking timber, light & strong if it has no defects, shrinkage is not as bad as SBG & nearly the same as blackbutt, I have had no problems with collapse as long as you keep clear of the heart, it seasons very quickly I cut a few cube for wall framing 100 x 40 six months ago & it has seasoned already in position, the timber is now 93 x 38. When selecting a tree for harvesting the barrel of the log has to be absolutely smooth & perfect with no lumps or bumps & not be growing right next to water.
regards inter

i have a bunch of ###### flooded logs here, piped and bendy, up to 900 diamiter and 8m long.

had consighed tehm to firewood but i got an order for a 6.6m 12x5 rustic beam yesterday and cut it out of one of them.

it was certainly rustic.

will get pics up tomorow.

Hi guys, just seen this passing by... At the Adelaide Show I saw a small plank (about 5 x 3/4, IIRC) four feet long labeled Pink Gum and tagged $25. I was surprised because I can probably get a few of those out of the 1/2 ton of seconds 8x 3/4 floorboards bought as a group buy through this forum more than one year ago. Never thought it would be good for much more than floors and construction, as the posts above confirm. What would one want to do with a select plank like that?

This log does have a pipe and is covered in lumps.Definately won't mill this one! Thanks for info,cheers