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Thread: Big, heavy & fiddleback?
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2nd February 2019, 05:41 PM #1Senior Member
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Big, heavy & fiddleback?
I met a local arborist today who showed me a large log he’s milling. He has no idea what it is, and neither do I!
1.6m diameter, the timber is very dense and interestingly has a fiddleback appearance throughout.
I put an offcut through the drum sander with 180 grit and added a bit of oil to see how it would come up. I reckon pretty good. The main sections with less shake should polish up nicely.
Origin is definitely NSW Southern Highlands though the log has been moved from its original location so its not known exactly where. It has the size of a local Brown Barrel however the timber is far denser.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Phil
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14th February 2019, 09:35 PM #2Taking a break
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Looks like generic Eucalypt to me .
I've seen Redgum, Messmate and Tas Oak all with the same figured grain as in the first pic; obviously it's the wrong colour for Redgum, maybe it's Messmate?
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14th February 2019, 09:50 PM #3
I'll throw Spotted Gum into the ring. Looks a bit like some Fence Furniture had a few years ago.
Pat
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14th February 2019, 09:53 PM #4Senior Member
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Messmate would be the logical guess but this is really dense, I didnt think Messmate got that dense?
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14th February 2019, 10:04 PM #5Senior Member
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Both the arborist and I had the same thought. Its very brown though - no pink shading whatsoever.
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14th February 2019, 10:13 PM #6
Dense and heavy, colour is about right, even the wavy pattern but don’t know if it grows around your area.
Eucalyptus melliodora otherwise known Yellowbox.Cheers
DJ
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14th February 2019, 11:18 PM #7Senior Member
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Apparently the log was brought in by truck and left on a property that was then sold. So we have no idea how far it came. I can’t see any logic for trucking it up the escarpment so I doubt its a coastal timber. On the orher hand yellow and grey box are reasonably common not so far inland from here. I should give a few pieces a smack with a block splitter as all the box I’ve ever split (a fair bit) has been stringy gnarly stuff - quite different to gum. Ummm .......
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15th February 2019, 09:34 AM #10
Here’s some pics that I took a few years ago.
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The two on the right.
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A closer shotCheers
DJ
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15th February 2019, 06:02 PM #11Senior Member
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