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Thread: How much for a jarrah pole?
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18th October 2012, 10:19 PM #1
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How much for a jarrah pole?
I have been offered a possible buy of a jarrah pole from a guy who is building a huge deck and has over-ordered a pole. He describes it as a short "lamp post", and indicated its size by circling his arms. So I was thinking about 400mm diam.Length is "higher than that (in a park) light standard...so say 6-7 M.
He has said that whoever takes it can have it for a slab of beer. OK. Fine. But (a) He's a good enough bloke: I do not want to rip him off. (b) I do not know him well enough to be given more than minimal favours over others. I want to be the person that gets it, for a good compromise price: cheap but fair. If I am given a firm offer to take I will still think hard about offering a bit more.....I have twice paid more than asking price for machinery because the vendor had the retail price too low.I can ask they guy what he paid for and work on that, but I just thought I would ask.
I checked a few Quokkas and saw no guiding ads.So does anyone have a very rough idea of the price that falls between a slab of beer and full retail?
I will look milling it myself (chainsaw but not mill:messy and wasteful) or getting it milled, until I can handle the pieces in my 21" BS.
Thanks for any help. If this is just too vague and silly please just let me know and I will try to get more details.
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18th October 2012, 11:27 PM #2
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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.
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18th October 2012, 11:42 PM #3
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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.
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19th October 2012, 11:56 AM #4
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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.
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19th October 2012, 03:46 PM #5
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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.Nick
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19th October 2012, 08:00 PM #6
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19th October 2012, 09:50 PM #7
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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.
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19th October 2012, 10:45 PM #8
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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....
Nick