Thread: Timber Grading

you must be a timber producer

there is a number of places that run corses.

they are 2 days and not cheep.

to give you an idea i have a 50 page booklet of the regulations for visualy stress graded hardwood

softwood and hardwood are seperate corses and standards

http://www.timbertrainingcreswick.co...0Hardwood.html (from victoria)

FITEC run courses, but only at a mill or similar, they don't have their own premises. If anyone is intereted, I'd be pleased to make our premises available, as I have a couple of people wanting to do the course as well. It's around $2k minimum for up to 5 people, I understand, and more will make it cheaper. I can't justify it for just 2, so if anyone's keen, let me know and we'll get it happening.

if ya get sompthing sorted i would be interested.

My Grading ticket with FITEC wasn't anywhere near that cost... 6 people on course and the course cost me $220, ran over a weekend, one for hardwood and one for softwood.
It included 'class' time going over theory (also received a comprehensive text on the ins and outs of grading) and also prac time at a timber yard, grading packs of timber talking about grading results, discussing why they where or weren't certain grades, how to measure different characteristics which alter the grading etc etc. Essentially enough in the weekend to be confident I could pick up a stick of timber and assign a grade to use it structurally.

I can do it much quicker now, at the end of the course it took a bit of thought for each stick, but now I grade as it comes off the mill.

Hope it helps

I'm going on what a friend is being charged. He has 4 people doing the course on the coming Friday and it's going to cost just under $500 each.

He's a wholesaler, not a miller.

I priced it a Creswick not long ago and it was under $300.
Haven't bothered taking it any further at this point in time.

Count me in if you plan to organise one. I've been interested in doing one for ages.

There are two courses TAFF do for timber grading.

one is grading sawn timber and the other is grading logs. Both are two day courses and with hire of classroom, visit to timber yard or sawmill they cost about $2000 for a group.

You should endup with a certificate in 'Forest Industries Studies'.

In QLD FITEC also do similar courses at similar prices.

Victoria also do similar courses throught FITEC and TAFF.

I asked my boss and he thinks that as long as the timber is up to scratch then you don't need to have any qualifications. I think you lot are righter()

Boss might be interested in holding a course at the mill. I'll ask him tomorrow. Otherwise of Exador wants to arrange one then I'll be in for that

to be used in construdtion it has to be graded and marked with its gradeing.

to grade it you have to be qualified. if you boss is selling structural timber as anyhting but ungraded tehn he is a crook.

or a dill

i would be in for a grading course .

After being on the waiting list for five months I have got in on a course being run for an outdoor furniture manifacturer in Brisbane starting Monday. Its by Fitec, costing me $450 and is a three day course, hardwood only. Two days next week and one day about a month later for the assessment, things must have changed since Sigidi did his course. Then again maybe they figured out I'm as thick as the proverbial and made me do the long slow course.