Timmo84 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:33 pm
Looking good there.
Is that cypress pretty hardy?
Tim
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G'day Timmo, yeah it is very hardy, it was the timber of choice for building just about every wooden building before the Radiata took over, our whole house is made from it, from stumps to rafters, white ants don't like it much, unless it is well rotted and even then they dont really get stuck into it. Unfortunately the last few governments in their wisdom closed down the Cyprus sawmilling industry, there is now only one fella left who mills it, and the only reason they didn't close him down was he had a massive contract to supply the Japanese market and didn't want to pay him out in compensation.
Just about every town west of the great divide had a cyprus mill somewhere and a lot of properties had their own mills cutting their own timber for buildings on the place, and for their reighbours. It really is one of natures finest products.
Now out this way, it has been turned into a woody weed, with billions of small thing whipstick trees that will never turn into anything useful, just crowd themselves out and get burned when the next fire goes through, and of course, the thousands of blokes employed in the industry are gone as well. All this was done to appease a handful of Greenies in the cities.
