se7enthdevil
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if they can be mounted above ground then the will do better but they will need lots of coats of danish oil to keep them for longer.
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if only it were that easy bud. i would retire to the forest not the caribbean... i hate the heat.
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for durability in native timbers you will want to look at dead dry oak. others could be sweet chestnut, robinia, yew, western red cedar or one of the true cedars (cedrus spp)
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nice looking wood but it's no prunus or malus species. a hawthorn is more likely. one thing you never told me was the density of the wood as you just said it's different from yew. is it markedly heavier or lighter??? lilac is looking like it's a very good shout.
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i've not seen anything yet about this timber to convince me that it's not a strange bit of yew. i have seen yew timber and its bark look quite similar to this and am perfectly happy to keep saying it's yew.
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could you get some clear photos of the bark (undamaged) and the pith and also a closeup of the endgrain timber cleanly cut so i can see the structure of the wood. i take it there were no bits of foliage?
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you asked mate. split it in half and lets have a look.
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100% yew...
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starting to run out of beech... .
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still got sooooo many orders left to do. .
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getting very busy at this time of year. .
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more skittles in case anyone has missed them. .
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How long will douglas fir posts last untreated?
se7enthdevil replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
can you soak the DF in oil for a few weeks first? it might stop the water and rot getting in? -
How long will douglas fir posts last untreated?
se7enthdevil replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
i believe they will last a good decade or longer untreated but i'm sure it will depend of just how protected it is and if it's in direct contact with the ground. -
maybe the tree is just really hot???
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any spare slabs?
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i haven't seen a coastal that big before. how old was it?
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could it be the lack of rain???
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do wooden wedges not work? i had to get some 4x2" off of larger beams a few months ago and cut some wedged out of a really tough hard timber that i thought would last forever and a day and a couple from an offcut i had lying around. 5" nails (and lots of them) held this 2x4" on and the hard tough timber decided to break but the softer one barely deformed even when whacking it with a 14lb sledge hammer. it's called movingui in case any one is interested. http://www.wood-database.com/movingui/
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border collie apparently.
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turned an urn for a dog recently and thought it would be a nice line to get into as i have plenty of timber big enough. this is made from african walnut Lovoa trichilioides (which is actually in the mahogany family) and has a small lump of sap on it. i left it a bit thick on the base so it's not top heavy. the prototype is about 6" tall and the main urn around 10"x 5 1/2"
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if you don't want to keep the timber i may be interested. is it a straight log? how long is it?
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you are fighting a losing battle if you want to keep its colour mate. it will always go silvery grey in the end.
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Some insight into this tree
se7enthdevil replied to KoalaArb's topic in Tree Identification pictures
bang on. Metasequoia glyptostroboides -
i'm an early 80's bloke so i'm not sure what mey earliest WC year memory would be (probably 1990) but thinking back i can remember that one time we lost. then the next time we lost. then the next time we lost. after that we somehow lost again, then the next time we went and lost for some reason? then again we went and lost. lastly for some strange reason we lost yet again? this time i think we may lose once more? could i be wrong?
