Sydney-Hunter-Blue Mntns...... Who wants timber from MAPLEMAN brought down?

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 12:18 PM

APPROVED BY ADMIN

An opportunity has arisen where we can get a couple of pallets (1 Tonne max) of timber from Mapleman brought down. Anyone who has been watching the extraordinary Mango Stump thread could be mightily interested in this, as well as any of the other species that MM has (Blackwood, Q.Maple et al).

The story is this: Bushmiller (Paul) has very generously offered to bring a load down to the Hunter Valley just before Easter, as he is finally going down there to knock over that Spotted Gum for his workbench build. He has a flat bed 1 Tonner that two pallets can be loaded on to.

LOGISTICS:

Mapleman will load the pallets, and get them to E-go transport depot on the Sunshine Coast (Kunda Park)
O'nite to Toowoomba depot for not much cost, and Paul will pu from there on March 22nd
A day or two later Paul will drive down to the Hunter, and will want to offload to someone who has the capabilities of unloading and very short term storage.
We have to work out the back end between us all, on how to get the timber from there to the end users, but I should think that this is very achievable
Singleton would be an excellent place for Paul to drop off the timber. Tooooonnnnyyyy..........are you ears burning?
We will all contribute a little something (pro-rata) to cover Paul's increased fuel costs, and also the transport for E-go

PURCHASES:

You negotiate whatever it is that you want directly with Mapleman
Maximum board length 1100mm (to fit on the pallet)
First in best dressed to fill the load

PAYMENTS:
Payments will have to come to me so that I can split them up amongst MM, BM and E-go

TIMING:
This will be quite critical, as we have to allow for the various activities to take place, and the critical path is as follows:

Negotiating your purchase with MM
Determining the final load, and therefore cost of transport
Get the payment to me No later than 15th March, because we need to allow some take-up time after this date
Pallets from MM to Kunda Park probably 18/19th March, but may have to be earlier (MM will advise)
Delivery to Toowoomba probably 19/20th March
Pick up from Toowoomba 22nd March (firm date)
Drop off in the Hunter 24/25th March...BM can advise

There are probably a couple of other considerations, but the main one is
GET YOUR SKATES ON!

Do your negotiations with MM in private (or in this thread if you wish), but you will have to keep the thread up to date with what you are doing so that I know how it's all panning out, and can co-ordinate it all.

We have all shown in the past how well we can co-operate on such things, so this could be quite a fun run.

Cheers
Brett

EDIT: It would not be hard to organise a delivery to other parts of Oz. E-go Transport have pretty good rates, so if a few people from one area wanted to sort something out then it would work out pretty well for freight I reckon.

Cava - E-go can take bigger packages I'm sure.

E-Go Transport Website
If you click Depot to Depot, and use Kunda Park as the initiating depot you'll see what I mean about the rates and depot locations

**Sawdust Maker** · 5th March 2013, 05:25 PM

hmm

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

hmm

Que?

**NCArcher** · 5th March 2013, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Singleton would be an excellent place for Paul to drop off the timber. Tooooonnnnyyyy..........are you ears burning?

LOL. You can certainly drop it off here short term. I can find space under cover for two pallets but I don't have any means to offload

Aside from my incredible strength of course

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by NCArcher

LOL. You can certainly drop it off here short term. I can find space under cover for two pallets but I don't have any means to offload

Aside from my incredible strength of course

Champion! How close to the under-cover area can the flat top get?

I'm thinking that Ozhunter and I might have to go for a spin (once he reads my PM with the link

). He's got a ute too.

**wheelinround** · 5th March 2013, 06:05 PM

No room at the Inn Bret and a few other things happening ATM always the way.

Have fun chaps I'll be watching with interest hats for sure. Remember photos

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 06:06 PM

Probably a good idea for anybody interested to simply post "I'm in" and get to the detail a little later.

**Bushmiller** · 5th March 2013, 06:06 PM

Tony

That's very gracious of you. It would certainly suit me and keep my fuel costs down. However a lot depends on where the end users are located so I will leave it to Brett to assess and make final decisions.

Just as an afterthought I travel the 600km between Millmerran and the Upper hunter via:

Texas
Inglewood
Warialda
Bingara
Barraba
Tamworth (where I will be stopping overnight visiting my son)
Upper Hunter

In principle a drop off anywhere along the way is possible, but it would have to be in town (no going fifty kms along a goat track

).

Also any arrangement there needs to be checked with Brett as he will be doing what he does so very well: Co-ordinating.

Regards
Paul

**wheelinround** · 5th March 2013, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Tony

That's very gracious of you. It would certainly suit me and keep my fuel costs down. However a lot depends on where the end users are located so I will leave it to Brett to assess and make final decisions.

Just as an afterthought I travel the 600km between Millmerran and the Upper hunter via:

Texas
Inglewood
Warialda
Bingara
Barraba
Tamworth (where I will be stopping overnight visiting my son)
Upper Hunter

In principle a drop off anywhere along the way is possible, but it would have to be in town (no going fifty kms along a goat track

).

Also any arrangement there needs to be checked with Brett as he will be doing what he does so very well: Co-ordinating.

Regards
Paul

You mean like the desert and salad and and and at the Blue Mnts GtG

**NCArcher** · 5th March 2013, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Champion! How close to the under-cover area can the flat top get?

He can back up the driveway right to the door. Garage attached to house.

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Tony

In principle a drop off anywhere along the way is possible, but it would have to be in town (no going fifty kms along a goat track

).

Don't worry Paul, we have sealed roads here in Singo,

although the floods on the weekend washed half of them away

but my place is in town and easy to get to.

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by wheelinround

You mean like the desert and salad and and and at the Blue Mnts GtG

There's only one answer to that....

**Bushmiller** · 5th March 2013, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by NCArcher

He can back up the driveway right to the door. Garage attached to house.

Don't worry Paul, we have sealed roads here in Singo,

although the floods on the weekend washed half of them away

but my place is in town and easy to get to.

That sounds just the job

. I do easy very well

.

Regards
Paul

**MAPLEMAN** · 5th March 2013, 06:44 PM

Cheers Brett for your initiative...species on hand at the moment are Mango,Blackwood,Qld Maple,Forest Red Gum,Crows Ash,Northern Silky Oak..if anyone is interested,p.m me for more details regarding dimensions and prices...will endeavour to make pricing attractive for anyone interested..all timber sustainably harvested,and alot of it carries stunning figure...if you are looking for quality timber,delivered,for a sensible price,then here's a great opportunity.Incidently,everything is seasoned,end checked,ready to work...maybe a club might want to puchase for it's members?...as mentioned,the price will be sensible,and the transport costs kept low...many thanks to Paul (Bushmiller) and others for trying to make it happen...Cheers MM

**FenceFurniture** · 5th March 2013, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by NCArcher

Garage attached to house.

Priorities Tony....I think you mean house attached to workshop don't you?

**Bushmiller** · 5th March 2013, 07:01 PM

I have just been doing a little research on Mango timber of which I had never seen before MM started on his epic root (actually I think he called it a stump in the interests of modesty). It is available as a timber once the tree, which is fast growing, becomes too big to easily harvest the fruit.

However that timber is nothing like the product MM has been painstakingly harvesting from the rootball. I guess that anybody with a day and a half to spare can troll through his thread again but I did turn up this shot of a bowl/tray turned from mango. The figure in MMs mango would be more akin to this piece I feel, although not quite as dark (MM may dispute my comment there.) I have seen the timber in the fibre, as it were, and it is impressive.

Chocolate-mango-tray.jpg

The density is around 550 to 650kg/m3 so I could bring down about 1.5m3 of timber if it were all mango. However MM has other timbers too including blackwood, some of which may be heavier. We will just have to see how it goes. Ordinarily I would be able to take a trailer too, but unfortunately I have my large trailer to collect from my son in Tamworth so that is not an option as Holden one tonners are not permitted to become a road train

.

As Brett has said, expressions of interest should be made in this thread.

Regards
Paul

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