Australian silk oak

[davidwyby]

Been eyeballing these for years and trying to figure out what they were, think my Seek app finally got it today. I had one in my previous yard I could never get to look healthy, so I pulled it with a Telehandler like a weed. This seems to be common for them here. The full healthy one pictured is the only one I’ve seen, and even it has dead stuff in the top. I thought it was some sort of cedar. There is a large dead one pictured I’ve been wanting to ask if I can remove, I’d like to mill it. I’m glad I read up on them first! Then there is another yard with several in a row that some uneducated person hacked “pollarded” badly and most are dead. This area where I live is terrible as far as lack of proper tree care. Everything gets hacked back to spars all the time. Often left that way as none of the “tree guys” knows how to handle actual logs with their little homeowner saws… then out in the country when a tree gets big or out of hand (often Athel pines known locally as Salt Cedar) they just bash away at it with heavy equipment…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thecon...p-nectar-but-watch-out-for-the-cyanide-148920

https://tcimag.tcia.org/tree-care/beware-the-australian-silk-oak/

 

[davidwyby]

Athel pine (bashed)


mesquite un maintained

 

[rogue60]

Australian Silky Oak
It's sort after for furniture making very light when dry easy to work no pre drilling needed.
It's literally like butter to cut but you guy's will probably struggle?, I give up if you don't find it very easy to cut lol
We milled lots in the sawmill over the years even a chainsaw mill would be very easy going.
If you can get some to mill I would it's a beautiful timber. Not that it matters but keep away from the heartwood it's chit will just crack and split open the goal for nice timber would be boards free of heart.
Chainsaw millers slab heartwood into slabs then wonder why the slabs split in half lol

 

[rogue60]

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1st pic blurry but looks like She Oak.
2nd pic to blurry can't get a good look at the leaves.