Thanks Thanks:  0
Likes Likes:  0
Needs Pictures Needs Pictures:  0
Picture(s) thanks Picture(s) thanks:  0
Results 1 to 11 of 11

Thread: tipuana?

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Brookfield, Brisbane
    Posts
    5,800

    Default tipuana?

    is tipuana any good as slabs or boards?

    i may be able to get 2 big trees sortly if i want them.

    www.carlweiss.com.au
    Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

  2. # ADS
    Google Adsense Advertisement
    Join Date
    Always
    Location
    Advertising world
    Posts
    Many





     
  3. #2
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Ipswich QLD
    Age
    54
    Posts
    1,166

    Default

    We had a tipuana taken down here at home last year. I had cut a bit of it up and it tends to bleed a red sap for a while but when it dried out it became very brittle and broke up quite easy. It was goog for kindling and it did burn Ok. I still have the stump in the yard drying out now. i just need to dig it out one day.
    Dave,
    hug the tree before you start the chainsaw.

  4. #3
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Brookfield, Brisbane
    Posts
    5,800

    Default

    so its god for kindeling.

    maby if i cut it int0 1/2" x 1/2"

    www.carlweiss.com.au
    Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

  5. #4
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Perth - SOR
    Age
    77
    Posts
    482

    Default

    didn't know much about them but a quick google suggests that the one I planted last year should maybe have been left to wither away. However it seems that many consider it a nice timber (rosewood)

    look here
    http://www.weeds.gov.au/publications...rt/t-tipu.html

    http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1625848.htm


    Denn

  6. #5
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Brookfield, Brisbane
    Posts
    5,800

    Default

    well it may be worth keeping then.

    www.carlweiss.com.au
    Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

  7. #6
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Ipswich QLD
    Age
    54
    Posts
    1,166

    Default

    The tree we had cut out was about 80 yeas old according to the blokes who cut it down. If it was as old as they say may explain it being a bit brittle as it dried out.
    Dave,
    hug the tree before you start the chainsaw.

  8. #7
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Brookfield, Brisbane
    Posts
    5,800

    Default

    what do you mean by brittle?

    www.carlweiss.com.au
    Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

  9. #8
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Ipswich QLD
    Age
    54
    Posts
    1,166

    Default

    The sections I kept here split really easily and it broke up through the end grain. The logs themselves then began to open up to a point where I figured it wasn't worth worring about keeping them. Some of the thinner branches were that dry that they broke up in your hands. I had the tree removed because it was starting to drop a few branches.
    Dave,
    hug the tree before you start the chainsaw.

  10. #9
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Wauchope NSW
    Age
    79
    Posts
    398

    Default Tipuana Tipu

    hi Carl
    Our club was given a tree about three years ago we slabed it up even with end grain sealer we had a fair bit of cracking but I managad to turn a good sized bowl out of it bit wooly in places some of the other has been used by the Intarsia guys looking for light coloured timber. Also called yellow jacaranda and pride of Bolivia rosewood it is a noxious weed in Queensland ,

    Cheers Tony
    Tony

  11. #10
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Brookfield, Brisbane
    Posts
    5,800

    Default

    ok

    ill grab them when they come up. or down as the case may be.

    www.carlweiss.com.au
    Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
    8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.

  12. #11
    Join Date
    Nov 2018
    Location
    minnipa
    Age
    65
    Posts
    1

    Default

    World agroforestry center states Tipuana tipu yields good timber, used for fire wood,charcoal production and poles. Beautiful fast growing, nitrogen fixing legume an ideal species for private woodlot production. I have one about 4 years old, very ornamental shade tree. Australia has an interesting collection of exotic tree species valuable for wood working or a potential forestry planting Camphor laurel - outstanding furniture timber, mesquite - for turning or small articles, Paulownia - furniture, Poplar sp. furniture, Aleppo pine - low rainfall forestry with Eucalyptus cladacalyx,-construction timber, furniture poles just to name a few.

Similar Threads

  1. Free Rosewood (Tipuana) Tree wood Brisbane
    By Peter - John in forum WOODWORK - GENERAL
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 15th October 2006, 07:20 PM
  2. Tipuana tree? How's it turn?
    By Skew ChiDAMN!! in forum WOODTURNING - GENERAL
    Replies: 18
    Last Post: 11th October 2006, 04:19 AM
  3. Tipuana Tipu or Rosewood tree
    By Peter - John in forum LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 8th October 2006, 02:13 PM

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •