Thread: How much for a jarrah pole?

Give him two slabs, thats double his asking price and you would still be getting a bargin.
Jarrah sells for two grand plus per m3 and thats off the saw.

Thank you! OK Yeah you are right. Jarrah has sadly become the elephant's tusk of the timber world...rare and endangered *where I used (years ago) to grizzle that the local timber yard was selling cheap twisted lumber 4*2 that was not straight for nearly zilch. I will approach the guy and lay it out.

Nick

Nick,
It's not only jarrah, most quality hardwoods are bringing that sort of money these days. Not a bad thing as waste is not anywhere near as bad as it used to be. Though there are still instances that crop up from time to time. For example, a recent newcomer into the area where I source most of my timber, took it upon himself to clear his property for grazing. In the process, he knocked down at least a dozen good Cedars,
windrowed and burnt the lot. I was logging on the next door property at the time and, had I known, would have been more than happy to give him a bit of time to identify the money trees for him before he went nuts with the dozer.
A rough conservative estimate would be about 80 to 100 grand worth of timber gone up in smoke. I hope his cows enjoy the grass.

Ohhhh that must have pinched a bit when you found out! I have felled a few trees on our property. I started cutting it for firewood with the idea of selling it, then suddenly woke up. So now I have a few logs of my own. Even so I regret what I did shorten. I don't know if you my post about it, but we had a tree die here is suburbia, and we had it felled. I again started out looking at firewood, but again it suddenly dawned. This wood is the hardest I have even encountered. The problem here is handling larger bits in a back yard with no real gear. This stuff is also extremely heavy. The trunk is maybe 700mm diam, and the last piece they felled about 4m long. A two tonne kangaroo jack was maxed out lifting one end to allow sawing. I had all 85Kg of me hanging off the end of the lever.

I have not been able to find out what it is. I just know it's a horror to deal with.

Originally Posted by REALOldNick

...I have not been able to find out what it is. I just know it's a horror to deal with.

At least it is not firewood.

HAH! The irony is I have burnt some smaller fallen branches (up to 100mm diam) when the tree was still up and they were just falls, and it's the best firewood I have ever used. Lasted for ages, gave out heaps of heat and left the cleanest white powdery ash you have ever seen.

I do have to add that if Perth keeps having the "winter" it just had, firewood will only take a lump or two a year....