Thread: Availability of WA timbers in eastern states

Marginata,

Jarrah etc is very expensive over here and we have little choice in the range of colour that jarrah has. Sometimes we are offered offcuts from flooring and you could buy a slab from a retailer but that would cost you a mint.
Are you thinking of leasing a railway container because it's expensive to post?

CP

FYI

the last piece of Jarrah I bought was a stair tread... 290 X 45 x 1 metre

Cost $85 (works out to about $5700 per cubic metre)

Chipman

Yeah it is expensive over this way. I shopped around for ages and best price i could find for 240x19 DAR was around $24 l/m. Would love to find it a bit cheaper. Use a bit for chopping boards, etc.

The reason I was asking is that I got quite a reponse from offering to post all my offcuts to members.

On a coffee forum I frequent, they have a monthly beanbay where beans are sent interstate and someone takes responsibility for divying up to those wanting the beans.

I was thinking that it could work out much cheaper for people on the east coast to get a quantity of Jarrah freighted over to one or two central locations and divided up from there.

Although we think Jarrah is really expensive over here, it is relatively cheap compared to what you would pay for it in the east.

I would be happy to take care of things at this end if there are people who would like to take care of the receiving end.

Wherabouts in Perth are you? I'm coming over on the 10th for 10 days going to Dunsboruogh? for three but will be back in Perth after that, staying at Canning Vale.

We're in Welshpool which is about a 12 minute drive up the Roe hwy from Canningvale and 10 minutes from the city. Drop in any time.

Doing the wineries around Dunsborough and Margaret River?

Just want to say a big public thanks to Dave (Marginata) who has fed the tile fire at home to keep my rather pregnant wife warm all week. Amongst the offcuts thrown into the ute was some sugar gum that he said I should "have a play with - it's hard". Well I fished out most of the bits and thicknessed them down along with some 140x40mm old jarrah that I salvaged from a skip bin on a site I was working on just before Christmas and here we have it. The piece of sugar gum next to the boards is an example of what it all started with. It has a beautiful tight grain and is lovely to work, I don't think it was as hard as the old jarrah.

Mate you didn't waste any time getting those put together They look great!

Gidday Marginata, just created a Canberra/Jarrah thread to see if I can dig up a bit of interest here for a load of Jarrah.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Marginata

Although we think Jarrah is really expensive over here, it is relatively cheap compared to what you would pay for it in the east.

It's actually even more embarrassing (perhaps bordering on criminal) than that. The housing and home reno boom means a lot of dough is being spent (and wasted) on effectively replacing jarrah with treated pine. One could spend all day driving around the metropolitan area just salvaging reasonable to high quality jarrah out of skips! Some of it is even that superb old growth deep chocolate brown stuff that comes from really big trees, not the blonde pinky stuff you tend to see these days.

Just in my street in the last 3 months, clean used 135 x 19 T&G floor boards cut into 1.2 m lengths and tossed into the skip and covered in wet cement. Up to 4 m long, 50 x 250 mm pergola beams cut into 2.4 - 3 m lengths - into the skip. In another skip at the other end of the street, dozens of new T&G 120 x 19 mm off cuts up to 1.2 m long - I grabbed a dozen or so on the way to work meaning to grab the rest on the way home - too late - skip was gone.

A mate at work had a major home reno, about a cube of straight clean used 4 x 4, 3 x 4 and 2 x 4 tossed into his skip which he rescued and dropped off on my verge - he even took the nails out!. Someone I know is clearing land for a mining company after it has been logged says there are still some 600 mm diam jarrah trees left behind. He chips up to 450 mm and cuts up the rest for firewood!!!

Just got back from Perth, Marginata yes based ourselves in Dunsborough ,stayed at WHALERS COVE would recommend it to anybody,right on the beach well equipped,sick of the sight of wineries don't know how they all make a dollar,seems the flashieness of the wineries is in direct proportion to the taste of the wine i.e the flashier the surrounds the worse the wine.
Got on to some birds eye jarrah from a bloke that makes furniture up in the River got enough to make several jewelery boxes etc all free which was a bonus.
Waiting on daughter to ship it across, her partner works in logistics so can get it freighted for nix.

And I had the kettle boiled waiting for a visit

I just got back from a trip to Perth soley to pick up a load of Jarrah (and to visit the relies!). It is close to 1/2 the price in Perth than it is here in Melbourne. Upgraded my and my partners luggage and flew back with 60kg of it. Other friends are bringing more over when they visit (the price for putting them up whilst in Melbourne)
I moved from Perth to Melbourne about 1 1/2 years ago to set up business here, but still mainly use Jarrah. I haven't found a place here that stocks a decent range and lets you pick it (if anyone knows of a place please let me know).
I will be interested in the Jarrah migration scheme for sure!

Originally Posted by BobL

It's actually even more embarrassing (perhaps bordering on criminal) than that. The housing and home reno boom means a lot of dough is being spent (and wasted) on effectively replacing jarrah with treated pine. One could spend all day driving around the metropolitan area just salvaging reasonable to high quality jarrah out of skips! Some of it is even that superb old growth deep chocolate brown stuff that comes from really big trees, not the blonde pinky stuff you tend to see these days.

Just in my street in the last 3 months, clean used 135 x 19 T&G floor boards cut into 1.2 m lengths and tossed into the skip and covered in wet cement. Up to 4 m long, 50 x 250 mm pergola beams cut into 2.4 - 3 m lengths - into the skip. In another skip at the other end of the street, dozens of new T&G 120 x 19 mm off cuts up to 1.2 m long - I grabbed a dozen or so on the way to work meaning to grab the rest on the way home - too late - skip was gone.

A mate at work had a major home reno, about a cube of straight clean used 4 x 4, 3 x 4 and 2 x 4 tossed into his skip which he rescued and dropped off on my verge - he even took the nails out!. Someone I know is clearing land for a mining company after it has been logged says there are still some 600 mm diam jarrah trees left behind. He chips up to 450 mm and cuts up the rest for firewood!!!

Bob,

You have to stop!!!!!

We would almost kill to get Jarrah like that over this side of the country!

Anyway I am sure you will add it to your collection and make something good out of it.

Cheers,

Chipman