Thread: Found a bit of timber on the nature strip

Nice score Mick.


Cheers...............Sean

Some people have all the luck when it come to scoring things cheap......

And just when will you have time to do your own kitchen Mick? Is that like my 5 year plan?

Boban,hoping to do it this year.

Mick

It'll look good Mick. Raised panels I assume.

Are you going to be brave (time wise that is) and frame the Cabinet faces?

Well done Mick. I recently had an opportunity to grab some Norfolk Island Pine logs, freshly cut. I thought about it, But I was told that Norfolk Island Pine is not that great to work with. I was told it's ok to turn but thats about it. I decided that the logistics involved & somewhere to store it for a couple of years was not worth it for crappy timber. Hope I made the right choice.

Steve

Mick you lucky blighter

Good score Mick - even though I'm not familiar with Salwood. Is it a native?

Don't happen to know a guy called 'Pickles' there do you?

Nice score Mick, the tow truck is a great idea! Look forward to seeing the outcome.
Hi Ticky, I haven't worked Norfolk pine, but the same genus as hoop, bunya and piranha, all of which are really nice softwoods to work. They tend to get blue stain if left in the log for long, so let that be your excuse for not bothering with it!!

Cheers,

Best I ever seem to find are a few old busted treated pine pallets

I love the smell of free timber in the morning

Great work Mick

Don't you just love it when people display some initiative and a bit of ingenuity?

How do you intend to slab it?

great score mick look forward to the photos of the kitchen
cheers wardy

Boban,
doing something a bit different, going to framed door, but instead of a raised panel am fitting perforated SS sheeting. I love timber but too much can lessen its visual impact. The kitchen will be a contrast of down to earth timber looks against the modern looking SS tops and panels, dark timber against SS and white lamipanel (splashbacks). Not going to fame the cabinet faces as I don't like the look (cluttered rather than clean) plus it narrows your openings. I'm a "form follows function" minimal type of designer/builder.

Ticky,
I've milled up Bunya and Hoop pine, from the same family, never worked with NI pine, but as Andy Mac points out blue stain is a problem, especially in areas of high humidity.

TTIT,
Salwood is Acacia Celsa (?sp) not 100% sure as the name is applied to a few species. But a botanist IDed my last logs as such (but didn't give me the spelling) Localy everyone calls it black wattle, but it isn't. I know a "Pickles" who does bathtub and benchtop repairs (colour matched chip repairs), and lives somewhere further down my road. Don't know him well, just spoke to him a couple of times down at the local take away.

Bodgy,
I'll wait till I've got some more logs (I have one large log of Cassia and three of Hoop pine, but I think the termites might be into the Hoop, I can't even see them in the long grass ) and get someone in with a Lucas mill. I'm thinking of that electric mill that Peterson makes but $4k+ will buy a lot of someone else's time with their mill. I've also thought about a slabbing attachment for the chainsaw but the Acacia is seriously hard and very abrasive, just loaded with silica. I don't fancy ripping it with a chainsaw. The chainsaw plan was basically slab stuff 5" thick max and 3M long max and break it down on my panel saw which has a 5" depth of cut when I fit my 400mm dia blade and has a 3M travel on the table. But like a lot of things, just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should. I could've spent most of the day (like I have in the past) hoisting the logs onto the trailer with my frame and chains and cables etc, instead I paid $88 to have it done. Unless I buy a mill I'm better off paying someone else to do it. Even if I bought a mill, I'm not sure that it would pay its way. I'm probably better off putting the money into machinery or shed space that will make me money pretty quickly. But I'd love my own mill all the same. I do have a 10hp horizontal shaft Honda motor somewhere and a collection of large blades, from about 500 to 700 dia from memory, so maybe one day...

I've actually got most of my timber collection from salvaged logs.

Mick

Nice little find Mick. Saw one of those Peterson mills at the Brisbane WWW show. Makes the Lucas mill look very basic.