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    Default 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
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarrodd View Post
    Rang to enquire about this and was being sold for $20 a superfoot. Apparently this is how timber used to be sold. [emoji2369]
    In other words around $8,472m3...(423.6 super feet to a sawn cube)...MM
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    Quote Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN View Post
    In other words around $8,472m3...(423.6 super feet to a sawn cube)...MM
    Guy was trying to tell me that current Tassie prices are $25 a superfoot before transport. So $10,590m3?

    Out of interest what is a reasonable price?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarrodd View Post
    Guy was trying to tell me that current Tassie prices are $25 a superfoot before transport. So $10,590m3?

    Out of interest what is a reasonable price?
    $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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    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,
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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,
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyturns View Post
    . Very hard to come by these days so perhaps value at the asking price.
    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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    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Somerfly View Post
    If this timber hasn't sold by now rush over and get all you can afford. Sounds cheap to me.
    Wayne
    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.
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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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tassietimbers View Post
    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,

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    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.
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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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