robutacion
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Hi peoples,
Yeah, another new timber species for my collection, that I'm trying like mad to identify but no luck so far. I though that this dry tree (nearly black), was a Black Wattle, with the difference that this tree had a very long and straight trunk at about 18" diameter or so and about 4 meters of straight log I ever seen on this tree species, apart from that everything else was looking the same, the thin dark bark colour of the outer skin.
This tree was located in the same location near the 2 local water springs, where I cut a few trees 18 months ago. They were all reported through a post and recently I did revive the old dry Golden Wattle tree butt that I cut and had the 4 mushrooms growing on it, to which I turn the biggest one and showed it here a couple of weeks ago.
This old tree needed to come down but, the place at that time was for sale and the owner was moving his stuff else where, in the house and outside. One of the things he had out in the yard, under the tree I wanted to cut, was an old metal canopy that he built for an old trailer, an he decided to use that same tree that then was still alive to put a chain around one of the strong limbs and use it to winch that heavy and old piece of junk out of the triller and have it dropped on some logs. Well the logs are long gone, eaten by termites, the tree did die, the canopy got all rusted, but the owner was still very sure that the limb with the chain was still OK to winch that think out into its trailer and get both out of the yard for good.
I got everything done for that time and before I left he promised to let me know when he had that metal canopy taken away, so that I could come bach and cut the tree. I've waited and waited, looked and looked as this place is only a few hundred meters from my place and is beside the main road, which I pass by a few times a week. From the road, the old dry tree is in full view so I knew that nothing has done to it all that time, a full 18 months!
Last week as I going passing through, I so a bloke working on the back yard, so I stopped, and had a conversation with this fellow, which turned out to be the new owner, that got the place about 17 months ago...! Anyway I explain the situation and he was more then pleased to have that old dry tree removed from his yard, together with some other bits and pieces that needed some serious "trimming".
I notice something strange when I drop the old tree down, from the cut it left but not sufficient to be sure as the butt was badly contaminated with very soft spalting. The very first cut after the tree was down and from the butt end, I started to cut logs about 4 feet long as I wanted to slice some boards out of that straight log so I proceeded to cut another 3 longer logs for the same purpose. I felt on my first cut, after the tree was on the ground, that the chainsaw was cutting on hard stuff, a lot harder then the fell cut, as any other cuts I've made along the tree.
The logs stayed pretty much still when cut so I could see what I was cutting into until I started rolling those logs out. That wasn't black wattle or any other wattle I knew, the cuts were showing these perfectly round growth rings, exactly the same as pine, but the colours were different and much darker. I could sewer that I could see "orange colour" on the rings but I couldn't be sure.
When home I got a smaller log, split and sliced it only to confirm, that was indeed a new species for me. I've looked on over a couple of hundred wattle species, and so far nothing even close, the problem is that I have another 1,200 wattles to look at, and I'm not even sure that is a wattle...!
Anyway, I have processed it into pen blanks, bottle stopper blanks and even larger square sizes such as 3"x3", I only need now to make a few round bowl blanks out of it. I only have a couple of pics of the tree before it was cut down, and then all the big pieces already in the trailer, the first lot was already at my storage paddock.
I will obviously show you pics of this timber as a final product, but for now and as some sort of comparative exemplification, if you know or have seen "Tulip-wood", this is the closest thing I've seen...!
I may not have a name for it yet (feel like call it "orange wattle") but I have its number, and that is #32 on the list.
Cheers
George
Yeah, another new timber species for my collection, that I'm trying like mad to identify but no luck so far. I though that this dry tree (nearly black), was a Black Wattle, with the difference that this tree had a very long and straight trunk at about 18" diameter or so and about 4 meters of straight log I ever seen on this tree species, apart from that everything else was looking the same, the thin dark bark colour of the outer skin.
This tree was located in the same location near the 2 local water springs, where I cut a few trees 18 months ago. They were all reported through a post and recently I did revive the old dry Golden Wattle tree butt that I cut and had the 4 mushrooms growing on it, to which I turn the biggest one and showed it here a couple of weeks ago.
This old tree needed to come down but, the place at that time was for sale and the owner was moving his stuff else where, in the house and outside. One of the things he had out in the yard, under the tree I wanted to cut, was an old metal canopy that he built for an old trailer, an he decided to use that same tree that then was still alive to put a chain around one of the strong limbs and use it to winch that heavy and old piece of junk out of the triller and have it dropped on some logs. Well the logs are long gone, eaten by termites, the tree did die, the canopy got all rusted, but the owner was still very sure that the limb with the chain was still OK to winch that think out into its trailer and get both out of the yard for good.
I got everything done for that time and before I left he promised to let me know when he had that metal canopy taken away, so that I could come bach and cut the tree. I've waited and waited, looked and looked as this place is only a few hundred meters from my place and is beside the main road, which I pass by a few times a week. From the road, the old dry tree is in full view so I knew that nothing has done to it all that time, a full 18 months!
Last week as I going passing through, I so a bloke working on the back yard, so I stopped, and had a conversation with this fellow, which turned out to be the new owner, that got the place about 17 months ago...! Anyway I explain the situation and he was more then pleased to have that old dry tree removed from his yard, together with some other bits and pieces that needed some serious "trimming".
I notice something strange when I drop the old tree down, from the cut it left but not sufficient to be sure as the butt was badly contaminated with very soft spalting. The very first cut after the tree was down and from the butt end, I started to cut logs about 4 feet long as I wanted to slice some boards out of that straight log so I proceeded to cut another 3 longer logs for the same purpose. I felt on my first cut, after the tree was on the ground, that the chainsaw was cutting on hard stuff, a lot harder then the fell cut, as any other cuts I've made along the tree.
The logs stayed pretty much still when cut so I could see what I was cutting into until I started rolling those logs out. That wasn't black wattle or any other wattle I knew, the cuts were showing these perfectly round growth rings, exactly the same as pine, but the colours were different and much darker. I could sewer that I could see "orange colour" on the rings but I couldn't be sure.
When home I got a smaller log, split and sliced it only to confirm, that was indeed a new species for me. I've looked on over a couple of hundred wattle species, and so far nothing even close, the problem is that I have another 1,200 wattles to look at, and I'm not even sure that is a wattle...!
Anyway, I have processed it into pen blanks, bottle stopper blanks and even larger square sizes such as 3"x3", I only need now to make a few round bowl blanks out of it. I only have a couple of pics of the tree before it was cut down, and then all the big pieces already in the trailer, the first lot was already at my storage paddock.
I will obviously show you pics of this timber as a final product, but for now and as some sort of comparative exemplification, if you know or have seen "Tulip-wood", this is the closest thing I've seen...!
I may not have a name for it yet (feel like call it "orange wattle") but I have its number, and that is #32 on the list.
Cheers
George