What type of timber?

**pjgrandad1** · 4th October 2002, 09:12 PM

I have just got some timber that was used as a front fence on a property.6"x 2" rails, 8"x 8" posts,old as the hills .
Timber is straight grained,
reddish/brown,no disticntive smell, not quite as heavy as Iron bark. I turned some & polished it with Ubeat Shellawax Cream,it came up really good,great looking grain!
Problem is I dont know what type of timber it is, I want to use it to make some salt & pepper mills, small bowls/dishes etc, but I was wondering about compatability with food.I`m guessing it came from an Australian native trees.Does anyone know of such timbers that you would not use for food items? Thanks in advance
Phil.

**rsser** · 5th October 2002, 04:26 PM

Hi Phil,

8 x 8 sounds like a real find!

Are the rails and posts the same timber?

Reddish/brown, could be jarrah. Fence posts are often redgum, but that's pinkish/brown. Redgum endgrain comes up nicely. Both should be OK for food grade items.

Otherwise, see
http://www.ubeaut.com.au/woodstuf.htm

on this site for wood toxicities.

cheers,

Ern

**Bruce Bell** · 7th October 2002, 08:12 PM

Call it an old fence and see how well it sell it is difficult to to identify the timber unless you have a known sample of a similar timber.

**rbarnold** · 25th October 2002, 06:26 PM

Having been in the bush making fences, a common wood is GreyBox or RedBox etc.

Hope this helps

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