Technical Info
Mountain Ash
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Botanic Name |
Eucalyptus regnans |
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Common Names |
Tasmanian Oak, Victorian Ash. |
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Origin |
Australia |
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Cultural Information |
N/A |
Timber Appearance
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General Description |
Pale to light brown timber with a pinkish tinge. Straight grained and open texture , with interlocked or wavy grain with fiddleback figure on quatersawn faces. Gum veins are also present. |
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Working Qualities |
There is moderate blunting of cutting edges and tools must be kept sharp, but all machining operations are satisfactory. Screwing, gluing and finishing processes are good. |
Timber Properties
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Density |
620 kg/m3 |
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Hardness |
Medium bending and stiffness properties and high crushing strength |
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Strength Group |
SD4 |
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Stress Grades |
No Info Yet |
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Seasoned |
No Info Yet |
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Unseasoned |
No Info Yet |
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Seasoning And Shrinkage to 12% MC |
Dries readily and fairly quickly, with a tendency for surface checks, distortion and internal checking and collapse . |
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Tangential |
No Info Yet |
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Radial |
No Info Yet |
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Durability |
The heart wood is moderately durable. |
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Lyctid Susceptibility |
Sapwood is liable to attack by powder post. |
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Preservation |
The heart wood is resistant to preservative treatment but the sapwood is permeable. |
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Machining |
Moderately easy. |
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Uses |
Furniture, joinery, paneling, weatherboards, agricultural implements, handles, structural use, domestic flooring, cladding, boxes and crates. |