Try this TEK http://www.scribd.com/do...LexTek-DMT-Extraction-v1

Worked for Phylloyd's aswell (taking the bark will kill your acacia ).

Have tens of thousands of AAcumins where SWIM is! Lucky! SWIM has been able to remove sizeable portions of young and older bark material, down to branch core. Should she only be using the older dried lumpy bark on the older trees?

My Shellite leaves no residue i even tested it on a glass, and my results have been clean from shellite and as far as i know it is 100% liquid hygrocarbons.

Have tens of thousands of AAcumins where SWIM is! Lucky! SWIM has been able to remove sizeable portions of young and older bark material, down to branch core. Should she only be using the older dried lumpy bark on the older trees?

Acacia mearnsii another Black Wattle by Bernard Fennessy © One of the wattles is another Black Wattle, Acacia mearnsi i (previously known as A. mollissima). The type of this species was collected by E. Mearns from a cultivated specimen in East Africa and named after him in 1925. It was not realised at the time that it was an Australian species. Edgar Alexander Mearns (18561916) was a doctor in the U.S. Army. In 1909 he was in charge of naturalists with the Smithsonian African Expedition. Acacia mearnsii D. Greig © Australian National Botanic Gardens A. mearnsii is a small spreading tree of up to 15 metres high, with smooth greenish to blackish bark. The leaves are bipinnate and dark green and with a raised gland at the junction of each pinnae pair. The yellow flowers in globular heads can be seen in spring/summer. This species occurs scattered across most of southern Victoria and into New South Wales on the coast and tablelands to the north of Sydney. It also occurs in South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. A. mearnsii is a widely cultivated and fast-growing species. In South Africa it is a major pest along river banks, having escaped from cultivation for tanbark. The first shipment of tanning material (extract of bark) was made from Sydney to England in 1823. The extract was made by converting small branches, thinnings and tops too small for stripping for the bark, into a strong fluid extract called tannage. The cut-up material was steamed and the fluid flowed on to evaporating sheets where a thick treacley extract was formed. To prevent the tannage contacting iron, wooden vats were used. Bark was stripped from Acacia trees and harvested, particularly in Tasmania and Victoria. The first full cargo of bark was shipped from Westernport (adjacent to Port Phillip, Victoria) in 1835. The wattle bark industry developed very rapidly and there was concern that the indiscriminate stripping of trees caused by the increasing demand for bark in Continental and English markets was likely to lead to the early extermination of the species and a reduction in the supply necessary for the home trade. Hence in 1878 a Board of Enquiry was formed in Victoria to investigate and report on the situation (an early example of an environmental impact statement!). At that time there were 96 tanneries in Victoria, and these needed about 15,000 tonnes of bark annually. The Board was extremely critical of the way in which the once plentiful wattle resource had been exploited in the absence of adequate regulations and law enforcement. It recommended that wattles be planted, that strippers be licensed, that the stripping season be fixed, and that there be a limit to the size of the trees to be stripped. Much later the pressure on wild Acacia was reduced when leather tanning techniques were developed which did not require the use of wattle bark. Later, the need for tanning decreased because of the reduced demand for leather following the increased use of plastics for footwear, furniture and vehicle upholstery.