Sugar Gum Tree Wood

The sweet gum tree attracts wildlife including blue jays cardinals mourning doves squirrels chipmunks and luna moths.

Sugar gum tree wood. Sugar gum 140 per metre also have some red gum 180 per metre solid firewood they have all been dried split and ready to burn. The mean annual rainfall where it naturally occurs is around 380 650mm with a winter maximum. Eucalyptus cladocalyx sugar gum is a large eucalypt originally from a limited distribution in south australia. Timber from the sweet gum tree is a finely textured moderately heavy white colored sapwood with a light pink tint.

However sugar gum has the capacity to produce higher value sawn timbers. Firewood cranbourne pearcedale tyabb hastings bittern crib point. Mobile 180 per cubic meter. 3 cubic meters 6x4 cage trailer full.

Cut the segments of wood to half their normal length and split it green if the wood is still moist and gum is worth the trouble. This vigorous plantation species has a history of farm use for firewood and fencing. It is found naturally in three distinct populations in the flinders ranges eyre peninsula and on kangaroo island. Its heartwood is variable and ranges from dark brown to a lighter reddish brown.

The wood is also used to make chopsticks for the east asian market as it has a naturally light color with appeal to certain segments of the asian market. Sugar gum eucalyptus cladocalyx is a medium tall tree endemic to south australia. Ready to burn today and dry. As we cut trees we split stock and sell the wood.

Cut the tree to about two or three inches high and flat and use the stump as a chopping block. Sugar gum firewood for sale. It is considered a hardwood species with wood weighing 52 pounds per cubic. It s a light wood and heats up fast on cold mornings.

Seasoned firewood mix of gum s are red gum ironbark yellow box stringybark sugar gum swanp. The best growth and form trees occur in the southern flinders ranges towards the top of the spencer gulf where it sometimes attains 35m in height with a dbh of 1 1 5m. It has many names including liquid amber or copalm balsam. The tree s gum resin for which the tree is named exudes from the bark of the tree when wounded.