Thread: What timber is hardwood fencepost

Any further details such as colour?

I'm half colour blind (dont ask which half)
It just looks light brown to me. Its a very tight fine grain fibres are sort of "hairy" and it is very heavy. It just looks like every other paling fencepost Ive seen in Sydney

If they knew the species they'd be flogging off as something flash!!

There seems to be a species which has the common name "mixed hardwood" and that's probably the one!

P

It's probaly a bit of stringy bark or yellow box. Plenty of it grows on trees up my way.

Clint,

My local timber supplier gave me a tip a while ago regarding source / sawmills.

In addition to grain / colour etc, if the end grain is sealed with green stuff, then its probably blackbutt from Northern NSW. If it is red then blackbutt or stringybark from Southern NSW. Most of the rough sawn stuff I have seen at Bunnies is blackbutt.

Regards,

Theva

Its a crying shame to sell an external peice of timber without species identification. Balsa wood is a hardwood but I'd not use it as a fence post. I would go back to them and if they cant tell you waat it is they should at least define its Durability class so you can use it with confidence.

Matthew,
Clinto posted his question almost 3 years ago I reckon he might have either:
a) repaired his fence and been satisfied with the durability of the mystery timber.
b) repaired his fence and found ther timber to be no good, in which case he's spending this weekend digging the fencepost out again.
c)did nothing about the fence and has spent the last three years being nagged by his missus.

Mick

The answer is C. Lock it in Eddie.

went to bunnies in mildura few weeks ago
saw their hardwood
can't remember exackerly
but pretty sure it began with D...
Duran.. Duara... Duari...
??
Cheers
Jedo