Old Red Gum Pizza Oven Wood

Red gum firewood is a dense, slow burning hardwood known for producing high heat and long burn times. Perfect for my pizza oven but expensive and hard to get these days.

Houses built in the 1950's often used River Red Gum timber stumps for their foundations, which had a typical lifespan of up to 80 years. These days older houses frequently require re-stumping replacement when they are renovated.

A near neighbour had this done and I scored the 70 year old foundations that were removed. About 2 cubic metres which I cut off the rotting or damp ends that was on some. I then cut to length and split the dry aged red gum with my wood splitting machine.

The dry hard river red gum.

Some of the stumps.

One full and two I/4 layers of sugar gum hard wood under the pizza oven.

Two full red gum stacks behind.

Some kindling as well.

I still have about half to go.

Yeah Baby!