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  1. 16th March 2010, 12:53 AM #1
    Crackerboy
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    Default Just advice please for now!

    No timber to swap (yet!), but a some advice and pointers needed please.

    I've just managed to save from the skip some large sections of jarrah beams. They came out of a developement in Perth that I worked on as a chippy.

    The beams were floor joists and the sections are all approximately 200 x 150, lengths all around 3m, some longer. Around 35 lengths in total.

    There are bolt holes about every metre, and obviously nails from the floor boards in the top edges but these are easily removed.

    I don't know how old but we found a scratching in the plaster in the basement showing 1905 as a date!

    Basically............ what would you lot out there reckon it could be worth! I'm probably going to try to sell some to finance some new machinery , ( or decking boards for the new house if the wife gets her way!) but not all of it as I'm going to use it for furniture and turning.

    I also managed to save some 28mm floorboards, loads of 340mm x 50mm douglas fir beams, I think it's called oregon pine in australia!!

    A mate got it all delivered on the back of a flat bed semi trailer, that's how much there is!!

    Oh yeah.......... got some 200mm sq newel posts, 51 turned spindles, handrails and bottom rails, missed out on the treads and risers, they went in the bin sadly!

    What d'you reckon, a good result or what!
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  3. 17th March 2010, 01:11 AM #2
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    That certainly sounds like an excellent haul I'm envious of course
    As for waht it's worth secondhand timber.... from nothing to $400 to1000/m3 depending on what it is, condition etc etc
    Pete
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  4. 17th March 2010, 06:53 AM #3
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    Default Secondhand Jarrah

    Jarrah 200 x 150 in 3 m lengths. I'm from WA, now living in Sydney. For Jarrah of that size, over here, much much more than $1000 per cubic. If that's the price "back home", I think I'll pack up and come back. Have fun with that load.
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  5. 17th March 2010, 03:09 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Benmanang View Post
    ... much much more than $1000 per cubic.
    Pre-used, with bolt holes and nails in it ... possibly not.

    It really depends on whether you can sell the "heritage" value of it.
    Cheers.

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  6. 17th March 2010, 10:44 PM #5
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    For turning, segmented or not, it just MIGHT be dry by now. Good score.

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