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Thread: Harvey log auction
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17th June 2014, 11:16 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Harvey log auction
Hi all, as promised a few pics of what goes on over here in WA. Harvey is about 90min south of Perth, every 3 months The Forest Products commission conduct log auctions where anyone can join in the fun and purchase logs, burls, sawn timber, slabs, burl slices or just a sausage sizzle if your just there as a voir.
logs and timber on offer may be jarrah, marri, karri, WA blackbutt, wandoo or she oak (casuarina frasernia). There is also at present a very large lot of plantation grown yellow stringy bark that isn't collecting any interest.most lots at the last auction seemed to average $110 to $160 per tonne. The burls around $350 a piece.
Anyway... Pics or it didn't happen...
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18th June 2014, 06:46 AM #2
Bloody good to see ya back here Nifty
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18th June 2014, 07:58 PM #3
Thanks for the photos, I missed the last auction and wondered what was offered.
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18th June 2014, 11:32 PM #4Senior Member
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if only
I wish they had something like that in S.A.
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18th June 2014, 11:48 PM #5
The auction has also been covered in part in anaother thread. What was a concern was a couple of gentlemen who bought every lot of Burl, there were some upset bidders who felt it was wrong. I just did a timber swap with one succesful bidder who bought two boards of Western Myall, almost Ebony like, looks superb, but may be too dark
I used to go to every Auction years ago, but now I cut my own, great day, free soft drinks, but for me is the huge 300 mm (thats 12 inches for the oldies) long sausages in huge buns, for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I usually stop at 9 though, don't want to be greedy
The auctions are held every 3 months. The June one is usually the best due to the bad weather keeping people away
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19th June 2014, 07:46 AM #6
If someone had enough $'s to buy, why does it matter if they bought one lot or all the lots? Everyone was given opportunity to bid on them, yes?
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19th June 2014, 04:27 PM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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Yes they do have the opportunity Al. Come hell or high water the buyers in question were going to leave with all of them. There was also another gentleman that bought every single Blackbutt log on offer, he had the same intentions. Blackbutt is the only reason I go to the auctions. Can't say I've lost any sleep because of his determination to succeed.
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20th June 2014, 06:43 AM #8
Blackbutt - Carl and I where offered around 200 cube of blackbutt for $40/cube, passed on it as we didn't really have much use for it and didn't want the money outlayed, sitting around for ages
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20th June 2014, 03:55 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Just wondering what the prices the slabs fetched?
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21st June 2014, 01:48 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi Rod
My apologies as I can't answer your question , I don't normally stick around for the cut material which is the last part of the auction. If you google FPC Harvey there should be a contact number for Steve Davis, he can help answer your question.
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26th June 2014, 07:53 PM #11
200 cube.... There was 4000 cube of blackbut and its still there,
If it was an auction anyone can buy the items just because they were happy to pay mor than everyone why shouldnt they get it, you could have bought some but obviously you didnt see the value they did.
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26th June 2014, 08:19 PM #12
Ah ok, not 200 cube, missed a zero and swapped a 2 for a 4.....pffft no drama
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29th June 2014, 07:30 PM #13
Yes, good point, but I believe the purpose, or charter of the Forest Products Commision is to ensure that the products are made available to local timber industries and control the flow from the forest to the user, thus enabling sustainability.
For the first time, I saw FPC mention 'Subject to Domestic Processing (or words to that effect). I think this means that if you buy a log here in WA, it must be value added prior to it going O/S. All this is shooting from the hip, but I would much prefer to see timber being used in Australia, than some cashed up 'visitor' purchasing the lot. I reckon a lot of people here would agree with this, because if you don't, there would be no commercially available timber for us.
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Willy
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30th June 2014, 10:47 AM #14Senior Member
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Plus one Willy
I used to buy sliced burls etc from a local guy, not any more.
They are all now shipped to Germany by cantainer.
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30th June 2014, 04:15 PM #15SENIOR MEMBER
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Domestic Processing
Willy... Unfortunately domestic processing is as follows...
For logs all I have to do is basically turn a round log into a square one, take the four hats off it and it is value added.
For a burl... To buy them at auction they have been removed from the log, they are now "domestically processed"