Big Macro coming down

[Kiwi78]

The look of that wood resembles red cedar here in Missouri. Is yours cosidered a soft wood as our cedar is? From what i've read about trees in that area of the world, they are harder anyway, so if my understanding is correct even our hard woods here in the states might be more comprable to some of the wood considered soft down there. Nice looking job on a pleasant grain to see.

Hi there, the Macrocarpa here is considered medium as far as a hardwood is concerned, it dries quite light but is very strong. Macrocarpa is an imported tree here from central coast California but grows more densely in New Zealand apparently. Yes some of our native timbers here are extremely hard Rimu for example when dry needs to be drilled to put nails of any size into it!

 

[SeMoTony]

Hi there, the Macrocarpa here is considered medium as far as a hardwood is concerned, it dries quite light but is very strong. Macrocarpa is an imported tree here from central coast California but grows more densely in New Zealand apparently. Yes some of our native timbers here are extremely hard Rimu for example when dry needs to be drilled to put nails of any size into it!

I was informed last night that the attempt to transplant some of Australian eucalypsis {sic] in California ended up with unexpected results. Hope was to have a strong stout wood as is found down under. What grew on the west coast was not as desired; it was a softer easily shattered and kind of punky if IIRC. Thank you for helping my learning process

 

[Kiwi78]

I was informed last night that the attempt to transplant some of Australian eucalypsis {sic] in California ended up with unexpected results. Hope was to have a strong stout wood as is found down under. What grew on the west coast was not as desired; it was a softer easily shattered and kind of punky if IIRC. Thank you for helping my learning process

My pleasure, another little bit of information for your learning process, lumping us Kiwis (New Zealanders) in with Australians is like me calling you a Canadian LOL. Australia do have some extremely hard woods over there Jarrah being one of the toughest euchs aling with the Redgum. Another tough NZ timber I never mentioned is Matai, like the Rimu it needs to be drilled before nailing or screwing, even fence staples won't go in 1\4"

 

[SeMoTony]

My pleasure, another little bit of information for your learning process, lumping us Kiwis (New Zealanders) in with Australians is like me calling you a Canadian LOL. Australia do have some extremely hard woods over there Jarrah being one of the toughest euchs aling with the Redgum. Another tough NZ timber I never mentioned is Matai, like the Rimu it needs to be drilled before nailing or screwing, even fence staples won't go in 1\4"
Yes I remember that Oz was used for prisoner retention by the UK. Not NZ I have TBI gotten almost 45 years ago.Missing part of skull w/brain damage.I mean no slight or insult to anyone there. On the map they are so close (-; expecting similar weather/growing conditions. Canada shares many tree species wth us since there is not an oceanic seperation. Would not be offended by an error of being called Canadian as long as the term "hoser" was not used.

 

[Kiwi78]

Haha "hoser" yes i have heard that term a couple of times when visiting Austin Texas a couple of years back, I see you are from Missouri, I nearly moved there 9 years ago for a contract to assist the conversion of 4 dairy farms in Carthage, awesome state!!!

 

[Kiwi78]

another pic of a mac slab.

 

[Kiwi78]

and another

 

[john taliaferro]

Wow thats perty . In post 11 where is the wood bloks the stickers are made of come from . I had a friend give me a stack of bloks milled like that ,all different kinds of wood .

 

[Kiwi78]

Wow thats perty . In post 11 where is the wood bloks the stickers are made of come from . I had a friend give me a stack of bloks milled like that ,all different kinds of wood .

They are just packing blocks used to strap packs of timber together at the mill ready for transport to local timber yards. They discard them once the packs are cut open for sale. I then swoop in before they get thrown out, its treated pine

 

[rarefish383]

My pleasure, another little bit of information for your learning process, lumping us Kiwis (New Zealanders) in with Australians is like me calling you a Canadian LOL. Australia do have some extremely hard woods over there Jarrah being one of the toughest euchs aling with the Redgum. Another tough NZ timber I never mentioned is Matai, like the Rimu it needs to be drilled before nailing or screwing, even fence staples won't go in 1\4"

You can call me a Canadian, just don't call me a Yank. I live below the Mason/Dixon Line, LOL. Joe

 

[Ben Williams]

What a monster, glad it didnt just go for firewood, those slabs look nice!