Thread: Lifetime supply of Jarrah

60k !! Is he really serious, I suppose maybe as it's in NSW in WA I don't think you would get 15k. Also if the sleepers have been treated and they probably have it won't be much good for fine furniture. Fantastic retaining walls though


Cheers

Dave

60,000.00!!!!!!!!!! Me thinks someone's been oiling up the old baseball bat a bit to much.

Originally Posted by speedy

60,000.00!!!!!!!!!! Me thinks someone's been oiling up the old baseball bat a bit to much.

PMSL! You do have a way with words

40 M³ for $60K

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$1500/M³..............cheap as chit!

I catch the train to work, and often see huge piles of sleepers, hundreds of cubes, usually just lying around like a giant emptied a box of matches, and wonder what happens to them all. Dunno how they'd end up on ebay, though.

Don't know much about cube prices but $1.5/kg seems pretty good, or would be for DAR...?

If I was buying a few clear, clean, dressed boards of jarrah, I'd consider $1500m3 very good buying. For 40,000m3 of old sleepers I'd want a discount - a big one.

Tell 'im 'e's dreamin'

Does he mean it can be milled into 40 cube of its only 40 cube before milling
I also noted he will arrange for local pick up only
Wonder he doesn't want extra for the used fish plates & dogs.
Anyone want to bet he doesn't get a bid????

To even think of paying that price you would have to have as many rocks in your head as there are little ones in the cracks of the sleepers .There only use in my opinion would be for pig pens or firewood.
Regards.
Ron

$1500 per cube is horrific for crap like that.

I buy 2x4 (2m long) for about 5 bucks each at me local salvage. These are ex-roofing and generally you get about 70% return out of them after cutting away the checks,, bolt/screw holes etc. Usually have to plane of 2-5mm to get them square.

That works out at around $460 per cube for jarrah that you can hand pick yourself. You cant get 40cubes in one hit but why would you want to?

He's better off targeting them and the landscaping market. Also, jarrah railway sleepers are often soaked in diesel or oil or some such to preserve them. I'd also be wary that you're getting real jarrah, not god awful tearout prone hard as a rock karri. Most poeple don't know the difference.

Originally Posted by LineLefty

$1500 per cube is horrific for crap like that.

I paid that for a cube of red cedar.:eek::eek:

Now who is going to pay $60,000 for 40 m^2 of old timber and after hours and hours of machining to have maybe less then a half left to make some furniture and hopefully make some profits?

Dreaming indeed.

I'm with Wongo . Tell im hes dreaming . What a load of old cobblers .

I wouldn't mind them for power carving though,features like borer holes, gum vains, Railways spikes and occasional bullet holes are all value added features as far as I'm concerned and can give my work that rustic feel , But not $60.000 worth!