Thread: Visited timber town NSW

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regards inter

Do they still have someone making shingles there? Last I was there must have been 20 years ago!

Originally Posted by cava

Do they still have someone making shingles there? Last I was there must have been 20 years ago!

Yes, the resident furniture maker also makes shingles.
These are split in the traditional fashion.
Don't forget to pop in to the Hastings Woodworkers Guild Shed which is up the track to Bago Railway Station - past the old school and opposite the model trains Track.
Cheers
SG

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

Yes, the resident furniture maker also makes shingles.
These are split in the traditional fashion.
Don't forget to pop in to the Hastings Woodworkers Guild Shed which is up the track to Bago Railway Station - past the old school and opposite the model trains Track.
Cheers
SG

Will do. My Dad lives at Crescent Head, so I just might have to visit him soon.

Many a pleasant trip to Timbertown in years when it was in full swing. Sadly no photo's I can recall taken. To hear the steam saws operating, the Bullock team hauling logs around, the smell of fresh cut wood and baking bread.

Thanks for posting the pics. That grey and orange/red CS on the top shelf looks like it an old Stihl Contra, very collectible!

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Many a pleasant trip to Timbertown in years when it was in full swing. Sadly no photo's I can recall taken. To hear the steam saws operating, the Bullock team hauling logs around, the smell of fresh cut wood and baking bread.

yes i went there 32 years ago and enjoyed it, particularly the bullock team ... must go again as i will be driving past there in may next year


regards david

thanks for the pics Inter. Just a question, do they still run any of the mill plant?

I guess the photo of the stump is showing how not to leave one.

Cool pics Inter, love the old vertical inline saw.

Originally Posted by cava

Do they still have someone making shingles there? Last I was there must have been 20 years ago!

There wasn't any being split while we were there, as scribbly said the furniture guy splits them & sells them for $3 each , probably to order though

Originally Posted by BobL

Thanks for posting the pics. That grey and orange/red CS on the top shelf looks like it an old Stihl Contra, very collectible!

There was sheds full of vintage tractors, trucks, engines, etc

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

thanks for the pics Inter. Just a question, do they still run any of the mill plant?

I guess the photo of the stump is showing how not to leave one.

The steam engine shown in the pic is operating & runs directly by pulleys & belts, the frame saw, saw bench. The steam it produces runs the bench feed steam engine & the big sliding blade docking saw. All the timber is static so there is no sawn timber or sawdust being produced.
Its not often you see a slabbed up stump anywhere.
regards inter

Hi Woodies
If you ge the chance to be driving up the Coast or through Wauchope drop into Timber Town and say gooday to the Hastings Woodworkers were there seven days a week in the green shed up behind the bullocks. Have a chat with the members they will be the ones in blue shirts. Just last week we had a woody from Canada in spent about two hours talking to different members. when I worked there in the seventys most days we people from overseas making themselves known to those who worked there. come in and have a cupper but I must warn you they are a similar bunch to the members of this forum friendly and willing to exchange ideas and have fun doing it.

Cheers Tony

The woodworks museum Gympie has this same kind of stuff too, great to see it on operating days

Originally Posted by InterTD6

There wasn't any being split while we were there, as scribbly said the furniture guy splits them & sells them for $3 each , probably to order though


There was sheds full of vintage tractors, trucks, engines, etc


The steam engine shown in the pic is operating & runs directly by pulleys & belts, the frame saw, saw bench. The steam it produces runs the bench feed steam engine & the big sliding blade docking saw. All the timber is static so there is no sawn timber or sawdust being produced.
Its not often you see a slabbed up stump anywhere.
regards inter

I could show you plenty of slabbed up stumps left by sleeper cutters in the bush inter. Not a good thing but they did happen especially felling with the mobilcos and such.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

I could show you plenty of slabbed up stumps left by sleeper cutters in the bush inter. Not a good thing but they did happen especially felling with the mobilcos and such.

Might have been why they got such a bad reputation as a widow maker.
I've personally have seen maybe a dozen slabbed up stumps left standing in the bush over 40 something years, minus the two I have done myself & the one above, not real common up this way. I have seen more of them on TV watching the US Axemen series.
regards inter