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30th June 2009, 08:03 PM #1
tipuana?
is tipuana any good as slabs or boards?
i may be able to get 2 big trees sortly if i want them.
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30th June 2009, 09:14 PM #2
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.
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30th June 2009, 09:18 PM #3
so its god for kindeling.
maby if i cut it int0 1/2" x 1/2"
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30th June 2009, 09:22 PM #4
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
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30th June 2009, 09:26 PM #5
well it may be worth keeping then.
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1st July 2009, 08:16 PM #6
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.
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1st July 2009, 08:37 PM #7
what do you mean by brittle?
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1st July 2009, 09:21 PM #8
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.
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1st July 2009, 11:17 PM #9Senior Member
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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 TonyTony
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2nd July 2009, 09:33 PM #10
ok
ill grab them when they come up. or down as the case may be.
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12th November 2018, 07:25 PM #11New Member
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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.
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