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29th January 2019, 12:55 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Heads UP - Timber for Sale
I have just seen this advert in this morning's Herald-Sun so would appear to be a genuine sale.
I have no affiliation with the seller or interest in the timber but have posted this in case it is of use to anyone on here.
The advert reads
TIMBER
Huon Pine
King Billy
W A Karri
"Premium"
Width 125mm - 170mm
Thickness 50mm
Lengths 3.6 - 6 metre
0438 358 381
Between 6 - 8pmTom
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29th January 2019, 07:15 PM #2Intermediate Member
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Rang to enquire about this and was being sold for $20 a superfoot. Apparently this is how timber used to be sold. [emoji2369]
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29th January 2019, 08:39 PM #3
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29th January 2019, 08:55 PM #4Intermediate Member
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29th January 2019, 09:29 PM #5
$20 a super is reasonable if the quality is good...a lot of variables to consider when pricing timber too...species availability,seasoned or g.o.s,is it plain or highly figured,quarter or rift/backsawn,end and surface checking,borer damage or staining,% of sapwood verses heartwood,quality of cut,transport/stumpage costs,amounts purchased etc...how long is a piece of string? Some timber for sale on this forum is priced at $125,000m3...comes down to how much you are willing to pay i guess...MM
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30th January 2019, 01:49 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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8k per cube is right at the upper limit of what I would ever even consider for furniture sized wood. For 10k I'd better have a client paying for it or it better be extremely wide, thick, quartersawn,totally straight grained and/or probably figured.
Personally I think those prices are too high. I bought those species for less on more than one occasion in Brisbane. I would hold off until the next time they're available.
Just my opinion, of course.
cheers,
luke
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30th January 2019, 01:57 AM #7GOLD MEMBER
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8k per cube is right at the upper limit of what I would ever even consider for furniture sized wood. For 10k I'd better have a client paying for it or it better be extremely wide, thick, quartersawn,totally straight grained and/or probably figured.
Personally I think those prices are too high. I bought those species for less on more than one occasion in Brisbane. I would hold off until the next time they're available.
Just my opinion, of course.
cheers,
luke
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30th January 2019, 07:03 AM #8
Probably of more interest to wooden boat enthusiasts, with those lengths & sizes, for re-saw to planks. Very hard to come by these days so perhaps value at the asking price.
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30th January 2019, 10:41 AM #9
Absolutely agree...given Tassie species like Huon and King Billy are becoming harder to source,particularly high quality in longer lengths.Politics,bushfires and other factors will have a huge impact upon availability too...fact is,there may not be a 'NEXT TIME' to purchase these lovely timbers...people need to realise just how difficult and expensive the due process of harvesting/milling/seasoning timber really is,particularly species that yield inconsistent recovery rates and attract high stumpage costs...not forgetting,every commodity has sky rocketed in price in recent years so WHY should timber be any different?...MM
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30th January 2019, 03:52 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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M.M is right on the money, there are more factors that have to be considered when putting a price on timber. Rare specie, long length, wide boards, figure all attract a premium and rightly so. The idea that wood is just wood doesn't cut it anymore. These timbers being offered are not your average bit of radiata. And even radiata attracts a premium for longs, wides and clears.
$20/SF is OK.
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16th February 2019, 02:39 PM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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Just found this thread but will echo the opinion of the last few posters. If this timber hasn't sold by now rush over and get all you can afford. Sounds cheap to me. There will never be another live huon pine tree felled in Tassie again and king billy will only be seen in log form rarely. To gain some type of international certification forestry tas. had to agree to not harvest living aged pines as it is unsustainable. Doesn't affect other species as they are a shorter rotation than two thousand years. The ones that are still left after the fires that is. Maybe a salvage permit will granted to retrieve the scortched trees, will see a blue moon first!!!
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17th February 2019, 06:58 AM #12
Quite a few years back the previous owners of Kingfisher Furniture here in Townsville were selling off timber stock the new owners did not wish to purchase with the business. included were three bundles of long genuine Teak 90 x 19 DAR boards or there abouts. I was Johhny on the spot, and though they were of no specific interest to me I realized their worth to a mate in Cairns who repairs custom wood work including teak decks on Game Boats.
Now mind you there were only 3 prospective purchasers in the storage unit when I made the call, only to be greeted with the "this had better be good this early on a Sunday morning" response which quickly turned to "how much, what price" then "grab it all." Unfortunately a few minutes later I had to make another call "sorry we missed out!" The quick & the Maxwell Smarts "missed it by that much!"
I managed to grab an assortment of odd lots of some quality timbers however my mate Peter was more than a little pi$$ed off that he missed a "bargain."
That was a few years back, as it was on an old CDMA mobile phone.Mobyturns
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17th February 2019, 09:20 PM #13Senior Member
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Huon pine and kingbilly in 3.6-6m long lengths, $20 s/f is very cheap. You will pick up barrow loads of rocking horse poo on the way to find sticks like that nowadays. But value is defined by what you can use it for. For that one special amazing project, it's worth it, but just to sit on the rack in the shed to admire, expensive as all rare and beautiful timbers are. I have timbers that customers are happy to pay over $50 s/f for, such as perfectly quartered tiger myrtle, but they create $10k guitars. Again, the value of the end product defines whether the timber is worth it to the purchaser.
Cheers,
James
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18th February 2019, 01:25 PM #14
At times it pays not to question the per cubic metre cost of some exceptional and now difficult to source timbers. As you say if the cost can be recovered in the project then its value. I just worked out that some small blocks of beautiful QLD Walnut from a furniture maker source cost me near $10 per cum, but it has already been dried etc and is of exceptional grain and consistent
colour. Its sad to see such "waste" material not finding a suitable home.Mobyturns
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20th February 2019, 02:02 PM #15GOLD MEMBER
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Go big green shed.
Price graded hardwood stairtreads.
Price KD hardwood in similar sizes.
Convert linear price to $/cubic meter.
You will never complain about 10 grand a cube for the good stuff again.
Its not 1988, if it was I could buy a Toyota land cruiser for $28k again. 10 bux for a packet of tobacco. Blind rotten drunk for less tha $100. Why do you expect timber prices to be immune from inflammation?
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