Curly Forest Red Gum

[Woody60]

Lovely stuff Mapleman - It's Forest Red Gum in Queensland as well.
When you call it Forest Red Gum we all know what you are talking about - if it's called Blue Gum we can't be sure.
Nice stuff

[richie47]

Forgot these two

Now those are pretty!

Could you see it on the outside of the log?

cheers,

richie

[MAPLEMAN]

Now those are pretty!

Could you see it on the outside of the log?

cheers,

richie

The entire log was covered in lumps and wart like things,never seen anything like it before.Will be milling the butt tomorrow,thinking it will reveal something special

[richie47]

Yep. Telltale signs of something goin on inside,

Go for it.

richie

[MAPLEMAN]

Wow

I assume the book matched boards that are showing feather/flame grain are from a fork junction.

Limb was taken off side of bole,so yes,it was at from a junction.Will post pics of milled butt log tomorrow

[MAPLEMAN]

Milled this lot today,off the same log.The dogs weren't much help though

[Pat]

Ok ok, what sizes are they? Length, width, thickness so that we can some perspective, you lucky so and so

Beautiful looking boards.

The dogs are doing a damn fine job of being dogs

[MAPLEMAN]

Ok ok, what sizes are they? Length, width, thickness so that we can some perspective, you lucky so and so

Beautiful looking boards.

The dogs are doing a damn fine job of being dogs

Hi Pat,the boards are 215mmwide,1800mm long,and 30mm thick(quartersawn).

[dai sensei]

Sweat

[Sigidi]

I've got a heap of decking boards for our front deck which show that kind of figure "Bluegum" is a fantastic timber. Sometimes she gives you nasty surprises with bug holes bigger than ya thumb, other times you get glorious sticks like you've got Mapleman

[MAPLEMAN]

I've got a heap of decking boards for our front deck which show that kind of figure "Bluegum" is a fantastic timber. Sometimes she gives you nasty surprises with bug holes bigger than ya thumb, other times you get glorious sticks like you've got Mapleman

Really love the stuff.Milled a log around 800mm few days ago it had a far bit of grain separation,wondering two things,is this a common problem in Blue Gum,and what causes it?Lightning maybe?Still produced good boards but could only get 4x1's out of it.