Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
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I have a client in the US that wants to build with eucalyptus wood. I can't find anything in the NDS and wondered if anybody had any info or knows some equivalent values.
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RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Lutfi
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RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Here's a website that describes some of the properties and uses of the various species of Australian eucalyptus. You would have to find the closest to the species your client wants to use.
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/hardwoodsqld/7680.html
Here in the SF Bay area we are getting rid of a lot of the eucalyptus stands due to the fire hazard and the tree's ability to choke out all native species. It almost always gets ground into wood chips, and that's in an area where environmental concerns and productive re-use are paramount.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
ofthesea,
What does your client want to build with the eucalyptus and is cost a consideration?
ps; I like the idea of using it for OSB. I wonder why it isn't? The only person around here with any direct experience trying to work with it said it "splits like hell", making it very difficult to work with as lumber.
In this town you have to apply for a permit to take down any tree on your property with the exception of eucalyptus.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
http://www.awc.org/Standards/nds.html
http://www.apawood.org/
If they don't know, they may be able to put you in touch with somebody who does.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
I laughed too when my client, who had been overseas and spent a night at the Hotel Splendido in Italy, ate dinner under a beutiful trellis made from eucalyptus. He just had to have it at his house too!! Too much money, too much time!!
Thanks again!!
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Ciao.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
The eucalyptus comes in a whole range of strengths and durabilities, and a number of species are commonly used as structural timber. Judging from the comments made the species found in the US is probably not the best, but I would have thought it is at least on par with your Pinus radiata (Monterey pine) or Douglas Fir.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Ciao.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
The difference for your situation is that it needs a more permanent foundation, like concrete piers that support it at least 6" to 8" above grade. It's also got to be a whole lot taller than your typical sweat lodge.
If it's a large structure, I'd be tempted to build a simple framework of a more commonly used lumber (redwood or cedar), then fill-in with the eucalyptus.
Most of the eucalyptus species here in the US are disease and pest resistant, but I don't know about termites. If it were me I'd put in termite shields and poison the soil around the piers.
From my sister, the botany major, I have this info about common species in California. I haven't found any structural properties for these, however.
Eucalyptus fictifolia is also known as scarlet flowering eucalyptus.
E.citriodora has white flowers that bloom in fall and winter.
E.polyanthemos is also known as silver dollar eucalyptus and resembles quaking Aspen. This is the variety that you usually see as stands of windbreaks in wine country.
I'm actually starting to like this idea! Where's my sketchbook.......
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/section2.htm
http://gurneys.com
www.american-eucalyptus.com/about.html
http://ww
Ciao.
RE: Eucalyptus Timber Design Value
Great links - It sound like eucalyptus might be a very suitable wood.
Ofthesea - I do hope your client is rich enough to pay for the research into material properties!