Grant's Bunya Pine part 1
Yesterday I did some work on the Bunya Pine recovered from my friend Grants property.
Background: - The 3 of us moved the complete stack to Anthony's farm at Dyraaba in two trailer moves
Re stickered it and set it down in the shed.
Sizes
We loaded 1 x large piece ( 3850mm x 700 mm x 60mm) and 1 x smaller piece (3850 mm x 500 mm x 60 mm) and hauled it back home here in Brisbane via the international airport where I dropped off Anthony for the return trip to Hong Kong.
I unloaded it and did some measurements cutting off sample pieces to thickness.
I cut off two sections and thicknessed them then the remaining long piece.
Here they are upon arrival.
The larger piece Is way too big for me to work at this stage so it was the smaller one I tested.
The first test sample:-
After a run through the thicknesser.
As you can see its riddled with wood worm borer damage of some description, ( may be the beetle killl pine situation) need to talk to Monte more about the damage later.
No matter how much material I removed the damage was almost full thickness.
So I reduced the width on the remaining long length and repeated the process
Again a lot of material removed but I managed to produce some workable timber
I did cut another piece from the opposite end and got slightly better results.
I will show you that in Pt 2 (forgot to take some photos)
The larger piece I think is destined for a full slab life as a rustic table top with just the top worked or cut up for smaller milled pieces.
Conclusion:-
1. the borer damage is not active
2. It appears to be located in the edges and outer parts if the milled slab meaning the bark area, hence the effect in the smaller sample.
3.What is it ? well a question for Monte I think
4. recoverable timber I estimate 30 to 50% recovery on smaller pieces the larger ones dependent upon damage areas possibly 80% recoverable and useable, depending upon the role.
At this stage I don't see any Roentgen Berlin cabinets coming out of it
To be continued.
Yesterday I did some work on the Bunya Pine recovered from my friend Grants property.
Background: - The 3 of us moved the complete stack to Anthony's farm at Dyraaba in two trailer moves
Re stickered it and set it down in the shed.
Sizes
We loaded 1 x large piece ( 3850mm x 700 mm x 60mm) and 1 x smaller piece (3850 mm x 500 mm x 60 mm) and hauled it back home here in Brisbane via the international airport where I dropped off Anthony for the return trip to Hong Kong.
I unloaded it and did some measurements cutting off sample pieces to thickness.
I cut off two sections and thicknessed them then the remaining long piece.
Here they are upon arrival.
The larger piece Is way too big for me to work at this stage so it was the smaller one I tested.
The first test sample:-
After a run through the thicknesser.
As you can see its riddled with wood worm borer damage of some description, ( may be the beetle killl pine situation) need to talk to Monte more about the damage later.
No matter how much material I removed the damage was almost full thickness.
So I reduced the width on the remaining long length and repeated the process
Again a lot of material removed but I managed to produce some workable timber
I did cut another piece from the opposite end and got slightly better results.
I will show you that in Pt 2 (forgot to take some photos)
The larger piece I think is destined for a full slab life as a rustic table top with just the top worked or cut up for smaller milled pieces.
Conclusion:-
1. the borer damage is not active
2. It appears to be located in the edges and outer parts if the milled slab meaning the bark area, hence the effect in the smaller sample.
3.What is it ? well a question for Monte I think
4. recoverable timber I estimate 30 to 50% recovery on smaller pieces the larger ones dependent upon damage areas possibly 80% recoverable and useable, depending upon the role.
At this stage I don't see any Roentgen Berlin cabinets coming out of it
To be continued.