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  1. 29th March 2017, 10:51 PM #1
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    Default Now what does one do with an 80year old dead Iron Bark in there front yard??

    Now what does one do with an 80year old dead Iron Bark in there front yard??

    The tree had been dead a year and with a trunk base of 800 to 900mm it's a big tree.

    It had to come down for safety reasons being dead for a year and already throwing the occasional small branch to were people and cars congregate.

    A friend from the local Boys & Girls Club who does volunteer work with me and is a Horticulturist by profession recommended a Blackheath based tree service company he's used for the past 7-8yrs. Long story short, the tree was inspected, quoted and then booked in some 6-7 weeks away, which was last Monday.

    Meantime, I was concerned to be doing the "right thing" with such an old growth timber tree and not just cut it all up for firewood to warm our home in winter, so upon the recommendation from Ben, the "InTree Service" manager, I organized with Michael of "Able Mobile Sawmill" in Katoomba to mill the trunk, as much as the tree blokes could safely save.
    The tree was in the garden with powerlines running through it, telephone line running past it, a carport on one side and a driveway on the other side, so not much room for any sort of mistakes. The "InTree Service" blokes managed with incident only a Grevillea branch was broken and the Michael doing the milling only dislodged one rock from the garden rock wall; top effort and team work by all which was very pleasing.

    Now it's a case of restacking the timber boards back in the shade again under the rhododendron with some 19mm gluts to allow for drying, covering the lot with a sheet of polycarbonite; then hopefully sell some of it, to recoup some of the costs I outlaid, but who knows what is a fair and reasonable price for such time??

    Anyways, here are a few photos.. Cheers, crowie

    PS - The firewood pile has to be split and moved up the back for which I'll need a lot of help!!

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  3. 30th March 2017, 01:11 AM #2
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    And you have got such a huge amount of room in the front of your place with a very wide road as well...not.
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  4. 30th March 2017, 01:13 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by crowie View Post
    PS - The firewood pile has to be split and moved up the back for which I'll need a lot of help!!
    Brett is pretty good at organising stuff like that!
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  5. 30th March 2017, 09:20 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    And you have got such a huge amount of room in the front of your place with a very wide road as well...not.
    YES, absolutely Chris, two [2] cars can easily pass by each other ; but not two [2] trucks .... but that's the mountains for you; nice place to live but lousy council streets.
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  6. 30th March 2017, 09:41 AM #5
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    Default Some photos & details to finish off...

    Some photos & details to finish off...

    The neighbour was very pleased to score the 2ton tipper of chipped branches for garden mulch plus he bagged up all yesterdays sawdust for the same.

    With todays' rain I've just tarped and polycarbonite sheeted the sawn timber stack and besides I'm still exhausted from Monday and yesterdays efforts were I did very little.

    If anyone has an idea of the "mates rates" prices to sell some of the boards, please either post, "PM" or email me thank you...Cheers, crowie
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  7. 31st March 2017, 09:36 PM #6
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    Default It rained yesterday and look at the colours in the Iron Bark

    It rained yesterday and look at the colours in the Iron Bark...........beautiful indeed!!

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    If anyone has an idea of the "mates rates" prices to sell some of the boards, please either post, "PM" or email me thank you...Cheers, crowie
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    Default I've managed to restack the boards today...wow is Iron Bark heavy timber

    I've managed to restack the boards today...

    WOW is Iron Bark heavy timber..

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    I've recovered the stack with polycarbonite sheets and tarps...

    My darling wife has been wheelbarrowing some of the small cut logs up the back to the wood shed for us for winter firewood.

    NOW all I need,

    Is some assistance from other forum members to give me an idea of the "mates rates" prices to sell some of the boards, please either post, "PM" or email me thank you...

    Cheers, crowie

    PS - Apologies for the "phoney photo"...
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    If I drop bye and split a barrow load of firewood can I be "paid" with a board?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    People often ask what an exercise like that costs. I did a similar thing with an ironbark and a double trunked bloodwood about 15 months ago. The felling was $2000, transport of logs to mill $200 and milling $360. I was better off in terms of recoverable timber and finished up with 1 ton of leaves, 6 tons of firewood and 3 tons of boards. How were your costs by comparison?
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    I'll help move some next time I'm passing if it still needs moving

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    Well done, Crowie! I'm glad to see someone doing the right thing.

    I've only handled a bit of Ironbark as a woodworker, and a fair bit as firewood, so I can imagine that lifting those boards was some significant work.

    But worth it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by burraboy View Post
    People often ask what an exercise like that costs. I did a similar thing with an ironbark and a double trunked bloodwood about 15 months ago. The felling was $2000, transport of logs to mill $200 and milling $360. I was better off in terms of recoverable timber and finished up with 1 ton of leaves, 6 tons of firewood and 3 tons of boards. How were your costs by comparison?
    With all the restrictions of the site; the mains powerline, house powerlines, telephone lines, carports, gardens, driveway and the tree in the middle of it all, there were 3 blokes in the morning and 4 in the afternoon working on bring the tree down piece by piece with damaging things. That cost $2200 for the 9hrs on site and considering the size & age of the tree, I thought it was a pretty good price. The bloke who brought his Lucas Mill to site did an 8hr day cutting approximately a cubic metre of boards for me, costing $420. My other costs were and are a week of nothing else but the tree with 3 down days trying to recover and we still have to hire a commercial log/block splinter before moving the firewood up the back yard to the wood shed; hopefully one of my son-in-laws will do that for me as it's beyond me. Cheers, Peter
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    If I drop bye and split a barrow load of firewood can I be "paid" with a board?

    Absolutely Ian, A builders barrow split and moved up the back to the wood shed would be okay by me, thank you....
    When can you drop by?? Cheers, Peter
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    Quote Originally Posted by crowie View Post
    Absolutely Ian, A builders barrow split and moved up the back to the wood shed would be okay by me, thank you....
    When can you drop by?? Cheers, Peter
    on current plans, sometime in August
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