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Bambra Agroforestry Farm
Australia
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2015
Bambra Agroforestry Farm in southern Australia is a private initiative aimed at encouraging and supporting farmers interested in growing trees for conservation, aesthetics and profit. Established in 1987 by Rowan Reid (Bach. Forest Science, Master Forest Science) who has been lecturing in Agroforestry at the University of Melbourne for more than 25 years and is the author of many books. More than 10,000 people have visited the farm.
More in my new book: "Heartwood: The art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit" by Rowan Reid. see www.agroforestry.net.au.
More in my new book: "Heartwood: The art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit" by Rowan Reid. see www.agroforestry.net.au.
Quarter sawing hardwood logs on a bandsaw
Milling a 35-year-old Eucalyptus nitens (Shining Gum) that we planted on our farm in 1988. The tree was pruned to 6m to improve wood quality. The mill is a Hardwood Mills Australia GT40 bandsaw with hydraulics.
This tree was harvested from a multipurpose riparian planting along our creek. Removing the eucalypt has provided more light and moisture for a 10m tall pruned Blackwood and similar height pruned River Sheoak that will now put on more growth.
The stump and head of the tree have been left to feed the fungi and insects and thereby support other wildlife that feed on them.
Harvesting trees for profit can be an act of conservation.
By Rowan Reid,
Forest Scientist, TreeGrower
Author of "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit" See: www.agroforestry.net.au
#sawmill #forestry #agroforestry #farmforestry @HardwoodMillsAustralia
This tree was harvested from a multipurpose riparian planting along our creek. Removing the eucalypt has provided more light and moisture for a 10m tall pruned Blackwood and similar height pruned River Sheoak that will now put on more growth.
The stump and head of the tree have been left to feed the fungi and insects and thereby support other wildlife that feed on them.
Harvesting trees for profit can be an act of conservation.
By Rowan Reid,
Forest Scientist, TreeGrower
Author of "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit" See: www.agroforestry.net.au
#sawmill #forestry #agroforestry #farmforestry @HardwoodMillsAustralia
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Redwood harvest
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Let's talk (frankly) about carbon
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Redwoods for erosion control
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Caught in the act: How our high-pruned timber trees are helping our rare Sugar Gliders survive the winter. The clear trunks are an easy landing pad. The gliders then chew the bark of the Silky Oak to induce the tree to bled gum that is high in carbohydrates. I have been noticing small marks on our Silky Oak for years and wrote in Heartwood that I thought it might be the Sugar Gliders. Now I hav...
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Yeah, It true what they say about you Aussies... You sure can TALK a good show !!... 😴
how much $
Check out www.hardwoodmills.com.aufor options and prices
Also, handling the stock for the next cut needs to be slowed down as well. I replayed it several times. Your explanation and demo is great. Just slow it down.
I can barely see the saw in operation. The sawing itself is drastically speeded up, then immediately ends, immediately after the cut is completed. Looks like its done in hyperlapse. Just before completing the cut really should be done in slow motion.
Rowan as a sawyer i would love to see your interpretation of the solar kiln please show us!
well explained thanks
Thats amazing!
Really nice work.
What is the benefit of keeping a stump? We need to remove a dead fir tree beside our house, but really don’t need to remove the stump (an extra cost) because it’s not in public view. If there is a possibility of new growth with an active root system, then we’d remove the stump.
I know it is an old video but the info was just what I was looking for. I have the same sawmill for 4 years ( also manual), but only have about 12 hours of run time on it. I am still learning. Quarter sawn wood is what I want to cut ( more stabile and nice grain pattern). Now in the process of building a stock of lumber for furniture making. Cheers from Canada.
Great information thanks mate I'm about to pick up a GT26 👍
Nice work, and good info for a novice like me - much appreciated.
Few people take the time to do quartersawn lumber on a bandsaw. Excellent video!
Excellent knowledge sharing!
I have a new mill now. Check out: th-cam.com/video/20LFBxq2btE/w-d-xo.html
No stress in THAT log! Kind of looks like a caterpillar the way the stress seems to undulate as the blade goes down the log.
Greetings from the US! It's a real shame that you don't have more videos. I find them VERY informative in addition to being well done. Dave
Ripper!
Hey Bambra, here is another way to quartersaw if you have enough throat on your band saw. You still can do it if you have large logs, but will have extra passes. "Quartersawing Oak: Making Expensive Lumber Out Of Free Logs" For sure you will have less waist 🙏
Very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for putting in the effort to produce this video Rowan. Very informative and engaging, much like your book. Keep them coming.
Hi do these work with deer?
Not sure. they may be a distraction, or and attraction.
not sure, but if you need help getting rid of any deer please let me know :)
The shining grain in the wet boards at the end made all that fast forwardable milling worth it. Well done with your whole project at Bambra that I've recently heard about. Makes me wish I'd spent my youth planting trees on the family block.
Thanks for the video. I’ve used this method with my Hardwood Mills GT 26 after reading your book but it’s super nice to have it on video and always more to learn. It must be nice to have the hydraulics, takes some lateral thinking to get big logs up and moved with just cant hooks and a tirfor!
Cheers Rowan, very informative. There is a fair bit more than I would have imagined when it comes to milling up a log but I'm a sucker for the details and finesse. Can't wait for the day when I mill up some of the logs sitting around my yard!
Thanks Rowan, great video, nice to see smaller section being cut rather than slabs
Thanks for making it simple for us newbies. Keen to learn. Just bought a used Norwood 34 so my No.1 piece will be limited to around 230mm thick.
230 is good for logs up to about 70cm in diameter
Thanks Mate. Very well presented and articulated
Looks like you need big logs to go that route.
Great message. It would also be great to see you produce timber from that tree, I learned a lot from your previous video on quarter sawing. It helped me straighten out my blackbutt harvested from my property with my small mill. Thank you. Jason.
Keep up the good work, cant wait for the next video.
Your cedar is showing a tall straight bole already - you seem to have less problem with the tip moth than we do up here in SEQ. It will make a beautiful cabinet, or skirting boards for your next home (probably in a little over 20 years if you have the same growth rates as we do). Our house on a little farm on the Gold Coast was built a little over 150 years ago from local cedar, black bean and hoop pine, so we're planting for its replacement in fifty years. 🙂 We agree with you about not being too dogmatic about species or ecosystems. Our land, according to the regional ecosystem, should be open gum forest, but the cedars, silky oaks, fig trees and many more rainforest species keep popping up as soon as there's some overstorey. They lap up the more intense storms we're having as the climate changes, and are slowly pushing back the invasive grasses with their denser cover. Looks like your ecosystem is making its own choices along those lines too.
No tip moth down here - straight clean Red Cedar. Getting about 1cm diameter/yr
Convinced. Do you see a way to by-pass the eucalyptus canopy due to fire risk? or is it crucial to establish your rainforest species? Would there be viable avenues for a historically grazed property to slowly phase out grazing altogether in place of agroforestry and some cropping with profits? And how would you balance fire risk in that scenario?
Worth reading his book "Heartwood" for the answer to some of these questions
@@CharraSuite Indeed. read it cover to cover
Thank you for your excellent explanation! Will try it today on my mill with larch trees. Greetings from Bavaria
We've had a good experience with these growing chestnuts - I like that they can be recycled compared to bamboo which is basically one time use. My only gripe is that in windy spots they just flap in the wind, I think we had quite a few losses due to the flapping opening a hole around the base of the tree allowing air to reach the roots... We tried various angles, a second stake, but nothing would stop it (it was quite a windy site)
Thanks Jan. Yes. I had similar problems on wondering sites so use the 10mm thick post. Seem to work
Very nice video Thankyou.
Very well explained,
Great stuff Rowan and all the best for 23.
Great work Rowan, as I'm a retired chippy I still have a passion for timber and its grain as no two pieces are the same, a pity we miss the timber colour in concrete. but you will have it somewhere around you. Bernie.
cool man I assume you are in Australia? I thought they were strict about planting non native plants
No, we do have hundreds of wonderful native species but like all trees
I love nature,thank you sharing gossib of growing trees
Wondering if this would work for deer???
not sure, but if you need help getting rid of any deer please let me know :)
Good Vid, Well explained.
Where is the milling video?
How does it go with redwoods? I have ones to plant this year.
I grow all our Redwoods in the tubes now. No problem
@@bambraagroforestryfarm4008 then about October I must buy some.
Curious if you've tried these with cattle. Thanks.
We don't have cattle but they are clearly bigger and present a bigger challenge
Didn't think about the reason to avoid the central core before. A bit different than the quarter sawn system I was taught ... But that's why I just an occasional buyer and not a maker. Many thanks;!!!
Yep.....this is the kind of carbon conversation we need to be having.
Thank you for making this no bullshit video. There are so many things that I liked about it. A few of the things that I appreciated was that you stuck to the nub of the issue; and you discussed a lot of relevant aspects that I had never knew about, that contribute to a "better end product". Also, you didn't try to be humorous, we'll leave that to professional comedians; and you didn't subject us to horrid background music. I learned a lot from watching your video.
thanks for the considered response. Rowan . See www.agroforestry.net.au for more
Bought the land and now growing Redwoods!
What size are your tree spacing