Cairns

[Sawdust Maker]

I'll be up in cairns shortly for a short stay with the family
Are there any purveyors of QLD fine timber (blanks) in the area I should visit?

PS anything I can bring from down here that anybody wants? (be reasonable given the finite weight restrictions imposed by the cheap airlines)

[Cliff Rogers]

G'day.

Details, details, details..... how long are you staying, where are you going etc?

I used to live in Cairns & now live in the hills behind Cairns.

These blokes are worth a look....

Wren Timbers
92 -94 Aumuller St, Portsmith QLD 4870
Phone: (07) 4035 1301
Fax: (07) 4035 1780
Email: [email protected] ([email protected]?subject=Email%20from%20Wren%20Timbers%20Website)

http://www.wrentimbers.com.au/

There are a few places selling slabs of timber, the closest to go for a look-see would be on the highway just north of the Airport near the servo just before you cross the Barron River.


If you get up onto the tablelands, have a look at the Tolga Woodworks.
(Look, I said, look. :wink:)

There are a few saw mills around still operating & several small millers.
There are a couple of members on here who are millers with stuff to sell.
They are based not far from me on the southern end of the tablelands.
Look up Mapleman & Log Dog. :2tsup:

Most of us who live up here know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who keeps an eye out. :wink: :wink: :wink:

[powderpost]

PM sent.
Jim

[Cliff Rogers]

Too late Jim.... their plane landed in Cairns at about 6:30pm tonight, they are here til next wednesday.

They are staying up at the beaches.
I have a mobile number to give them a yell if I'm going down to Cairns.

[Sawdust Maker]

Jim & Cliff
Am back had a good time except the youngest got crook which slowed us down a bit!
Checked out most of the things Cliff suggested. Will probably be back in a year or so - we all liked the area and Trinity Beach was superb.
I'll try and catch up next time.

Cliff
You gave me a bum steer. Wren Timbers are no longer in Aumuller St
didn't have time to track them down if they exist anymore
oh well

cheers

Nick

[Cliff Rogers]

Sheyet! Sorry about that, they aren't either, they moved & they didn't update their web site... I just ripped that address off the net. :doh:

They are now at the corner of Hassel & Palmer streets in Portsmith. :rolleyes:
It is almost exactly right behind the old place in the next street. :cool:

I rang them & told them & they said to apologise, they just hadn't got around to fixing that yet.

[Sawdust Maker]

bugger
and I didn't have their phone number handy as I would have rang them!:doh:
The people next door to their old place didn't know where they had gone

PS Tell them they owe me a blank of something really expensive (but must be a local timber)!

[artme]

I'm willing to bet you'd live in the hills no matter where they were Mr. Rogers.:D:D:p:p

[Cliff Rogers]

I'm willing to bet you'd live in the hills no matter where they were Mr. Rogers.:D:D:p:p
Yup.... just down the road from these blokes. :D

http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10990&d=1122347601

[nalmo]

And here was I thinking I was an only child, only to find out I am one of triplets!

[Geoff Dean]

Can ya play a banjo Cliff?:D

[Cliff Rogers]

Guitar. :2tsup:

[Geoff Dean]

In the hills out the back of Cairns:



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:D

[Sawdust Maker]

So it was banjo music and I thought it was just the whispering of the wind in them there trees :doh::D:D