Saw video thread

[RI Chevy]

Wow. She runs...[emoji108]

 

[markds2]

XS500i noodling very old and hard Eucalyptus with the full 28 inches buried

 

[TreeLife]

XS500i noodling very old and hard Eucalyptus with the full 28 inches buried

That runs very nicely

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice.
Does the tree have a pungent odor?

 

[markds2]

Nice.
Does the tree have a pungent odor?

Nope, nothing out of the ordinary. Just makes awful black stains when the sap runs out of the wood once it gets rain on it. A trailer load of wood stored on the concrete in the rain will make an awful mess. Like someone has poured a huge pot of coffee on the concrete and let it sit

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow. OK. Thank you...

 

[markds2]

Wow. OK. Thank you...

Its both harder and heavier than Osage Orange. Those rings needed to be noodled into quarters before I thought about lifting them.

 

[RI Chevy]

Whew. You guys certainly have some Rock Hard trees there.

 

[ranchdadmike]

Nice.
Does the tree have a pungent odor?

Lol. I was going to ask the same thing!

 

[markds2]

Lol. I was going to ask the same thing!

If you walk through a living stand of trees you can smell the Eucalyptus (which is in the leaves). Here in NZ the wood is generally just called 'Blue Gum' but I'm OCD and don't like to identify wood unless I can positively do so (there are literally thousands of types of Gum). I know the wood is some sort of Eucalyptus so that's what I call it. This wood has been down on the ground for 13 years and doesn't have a trace of rot in the heart wood (sap wood is completely gone).

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow. That is amazing wood. Have you ever tried to slab some? Make some great furniture I bet.

 

[MustangMike]

Jeff, about a month ago I milled some 30" dead Norway Maple … not anything that I want to do again! Some of that hard stuff gets very tough to mill, I did not expect the Norway Maple to be that difficult!

 

[RI Chevy]

Probably like pine as compared to this stuff on the Islands.

 

[MustangMike]

Jeff, for comparison I've milled a good amount of Hickory (both Shag and Smooth), Red Oak and Chestnut Oak.

That Norway Maple was tough, and the diameter did not help!

 

[markds2]

Wow. That is amazing wood. Have you ever tried to slab some? Make some great furniture I bet.

Some of the species of Eucalyptus makes extremely durable timber and is used for decking or railway ties (@rogue60 will tell you what ones), but this stuff has extremely twisted and interlocked grain and splits quite badly when drying (you can see in the video). Not easy to split for firewood unless you have hydraulics.

 

[Rogee]

Wow. That is amazing wood. Have you ever tried to slab some? Make some great furniture I bet.

Unfortunately it generally has so much tension in that it is unusable. Most are firewood jobs

 

[RI Chevy]

Thanks guys.

 

[markds2]

It does make incredible firewood....as long as you have the gear to handle it.

 

[MustangMike]

Locust is often the same … good for fence posts and hiking bridges … but my Uncle told me never use it for building material because when it warps it will take the whole structure with it!

 

[rogue60]

It does make incredible firewood....as long as you have the gear to handle it.

Yep best way to deal with Aussie hardwood as you have worked out is noodle it down the more balls a saw has the faster this gets done myself I like 90cc and 404 for noodling hardwoods you don't see anything under 046 as a firewood saw around here.
Noodling saves ya back when lifting the heavy crap.
Hydraulics is the only way to go if you have a lot to split.