{"id":2773,"date":"2017-05-10T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2025-01-19T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:44:47","slug":"wed-7th-jun-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Timber identification by Robin Cromer &#8211; 7th Jun 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members were impressed and enthused by the presentation of guest speaker Robin Cromer on timber identification using only a magnifying lens (and years of experience!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Robin-Presentation.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robin&#8217;s extensive career included working with the CSIRO, and he made reference to the CSIRO Macro Key for Hardwood Identification.  The book is out of print, but copies can be borrowed from local libraries.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1-768x1108.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-1.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2-768x1108.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/s-l1600-2.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMembers might also be interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timber.net.au\/index.php\/species.html\">The Australian Timber Database<\/a> which gives a comprehensive list of timber species used in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cromer-Robin-NFF-03-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cromer-Robin-NFF-03-13-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2791\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><center>Thank you Robin for an informative and memorable night!<\/center><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members were impressed and enthused by the presentation of guest speaker Robin Cromer on timber identification using only a magnifying lens (and years of experience!) Robin&#8217;s extensive career included working with the CSIRO, and he made reference to the CSIRO Macro Key for Hardwood Identification. The book is out of print, but copies can be <a href='https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/?p=2773' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tocact.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}