A few months back a tree was cut down in Cambridge Park, Sydney and needed to be cut up into manageable lengths as it was just left as felled. The tree was next door to a friend’s mother’s home and needed to be cleared. The friend had a chain-saw so cut it up into manageable lengths and sealed the ends with Bond Crete, and, consequently, as it had great colour, how could one refuse the offer of a few lengths.
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Stepping Back In Time
Many years back we (the Kiama Woodcraft Group) were given a set of timber-getting posters of photos printed by the Department of State Forests. It has become a tradition to display these photos at the Kiama Woodcraft Expo, and also at our Craft Sales and Exhibitions in the Old Fire Station Gallery.
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Jelutong (dyera costulata)
The timber supplied for the 2023 Club Challenge is Jelutong.
Dyera costulata, the Jelutong, is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae. It grows to approximately 60 metres (200 ft) tall with diameters of 2 metres (5 to 6 ft), or even to 80 m (260 ft) tall with diameters to 3 m (10 ft), and boles clear and straight for 30 m (90 ft).
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Cotoneaster (cotoneaster glaucophyllus)
Cotoneaster, a once prized garden shrub/tree, now declared a noxious weed in Australia because of invasiveness in the bush, is a native of China, the Himalayas and temperate Asia, Nth. Africa and Europe.
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