Day job perks

[OZDOG]

Went down the valley to mill some airing sticks and a few boards yesterday out of Mountain Ash. The house in the background in the 4th pic is my day job (carpenter). The owner cleared a few trees which he was happy to hand over to me to mill up:chainsawguy: hope the pics are clear enough, they were taken on my phone.

 

[oldsaw]

Nice. Not a bad side benefit either. I've got a couple of contractors I need to hook up with around here.

Mark

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Nice looking wood!

Construction is a great source of free timber. That's where I get 90% of mine.

 

[woodshop]

Looks like nice homogeneous wood, very few knots (no sticks no seeds that you don't need ) high grade lumber. Actually doesn't look like any ash around here in the NE US. Local names for wood can be very deceptive. It looks pretty dense and hard, is it?

 

[Sprig]

That is really pretty wood, nice grain and colour, wonderin' too if it is hard like the ash around here.

 

[OZDOG]

Looks like nice homogeneous wood, very few knots (no sticks no seeds that you don't need ) high grade lumber. Actually doesn't look like any ash around here in the NE US. Local names for wood can be very deceptive. It looks pretty dense and hard, is it?

it's a eucalypt, but the thing is that there is over 200 species of eucalypt found in australia so to identify the exact species you have to study the tree over a twelve month period to find out all its flowering, budding characteristics etc.....so ash is a bit generic. i find it hard to identify what i'm working with most of the time when it's blonde timber because the trees look so similar so everyone tends to say 'oh, it's an ash of some sort'. and yes, it is very hard and dense (and bloody heavy!).

 

[woodshop]

Thanks Ozdog. I've said this before, but I envy you Aussies for your hard dense interesting wood you have down there. If I ever visit down there, I'd have to figure a way to get a ton of it back here to my woodshop.