Thread: Timber Identification

What did they make surveyors pegs and builders set out pegs of in those days? Could be Red Gum.

The timbers are heaps lighter than spotty and ironbark I have at my place. So it may not be redgum
hmmm I'll find out what they used for surveyors pegs back then

thanks!!!!

It sure looks like redgum with those gum veins

It sure does look like River Red Gum but if you reckon it's lighter than Ironbark or spotted gum then...I'd be thinking a more northern coast timber but I've no idea what that might be...

I’m thinking it might be Karri, do a splinter burn test on it.

I’ve copied and pasted this following paragraph from this thread

Burning Splinter Test – A test performed on matchstick-sized splinters to distinguish between anatomically similar timbers such as brush box and turpentine or jarrah and karri.
A match size splinter [of Jarrah] burns to charcoal without ash, while a Karri splinter burns to a white ash.

Crazy, Thanks for digging that up.

Will try that test out ASAP.

Appreciate it!!

It does look like a eucalypt to me and being so dark Jarrah is the most obvious to me.

Many eucalypt woods are hard to tell apart except by colour and density. If you did a density test (gram / cc) use kitchen scale on a block and measure dimensions l x b x h in cm to nearest mm. That would narrow down the possibility of eucalpyts with dark red woods.

I think we got it. Thank you all for comments and replies and thank you Acco for the burn hacks.

Attached is photo. Think it is Karri.

And Euge, I will do a volume v weight comparison.

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Thank you all!!!