Leigh Clark retires from ISTT Strahan & a New ISTT Office Location in Strahan - after a busy and varied working life with Forestry Tasmania since 1972 and since 1983 at Strahan Leigh (a legend in his own time) is now enjoying a busy retirement in his favourite town. Thousands of people have bought Huon pine from Leigh during these years through his roles for Forestry Tasmanian and ISTT and we are fortunate that he has agreed to work intermittently for ISTT at Strahan and at the mainland Timber & Working with Wood shows. One of his last jobs was to move the FT office from a prime waterfront location in the centre of town to the main Forestry Tasmanian yard at 5 Frazer Street. However life is often about change and a new full-time Manager, Craig Denney, has commenced work at Frazer Strahan for Forestry Tasmania and ISTT. So the new ISTT sales contact at Strahan for Huon or King Billy pine is now Craig Denney and his contact options are: tel 03 6472 6004, or mobile 0459 115 843 and email craig.denney@forestrytas.com.au
Canberra Timber & Working with Wood Show, 2, 3 & 4 September, 10 am - 5 pm at Budawang Building, Exhibition Park. A crate of selected pieces of kiln seasoned Tasmanian special timbers have arrived in Canberra for display and sale from the ISTT stand at site 63, near the visitor lounge. These timbers are certified as Chain of Custody material by the Fine Timber Tasmania Inc. scheme, to assure buyers that ISTT timber is legally sourced, environmentally responsible and from Tasmanian forests whose management is certified by the AFS and ISO 14001. There is an excellent range of seasoned and dressed timber - boards, squares, slabs, premium box making material and bowl blanks representing black-heart & spalted sassafras, blackwood as plain & fiddle-back, myrtle, Huon pine and King Billy pine. We have also brought bundles of the rare tiger myrtle veneer to display and sell. If we do not have what you want at the Canberra wood show Chris Emmett will be happy to take your order and quote freight to deliver, by Australia Post or by the truck load.
Next Tender of Special Timbers logs - selected special timbers logs will be offered for sale by tender from Monday 27 September until 4.30 pm on Monday 11 October. Images will be available on this website and the logs can be inspected at ISTT Geeveston between 8.00 am and 4.30 pm on weekdays until Monday 11 October. There is likely to be black-heart sassafras, blackwood, myrtle, celery-top pine and other logs. ISTT Geeveston can mill any of these logs to your requirements and deliver the sawn material to any Australian address. The last tender at ISTT Geeveston for 2010 will run from Monday 8 - 22 November.
Special Timbers Strategy, released by Forestry Tasmania, February 2010 - have you read this strategy? Read or download your own copy from www.forestrytas.com.au/publications. The main elements of this 10 year strategy are: Sustaining the Resource, Maximising Value Recovery and Promoting Tasmanian Special Timbers to the world.
ISTT will attend four Timber & Working with Wood shows during 2010 to sell selected, seasoned boards, squares, slabs and blanks of Tasmania’s special timbers at the following shows, from 10.00 am until 5.00 pm :
Canberra – Fri. 3, Sat. 4 and Sun. 5 September, The Budawang Building, Exhibition Park
Melbourne – Fri. 15, Sat. 16 and Sun. 17 October, Melbourne Showgrounds, Epsom Road, Ascot Vale
If you wish to place a small order for timber we may be able to deliver it to you at the Melbourne show. Contact Mr Chris Emmett asap on chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au
Tender sales of Special Timbers Logs - selected high quality pieces will be available for inspection at ISTT Geeveston and shown in the Tenders section on this site, at the following times in 2010:
August tender – from Mon. 16th to 5.00 pm on Mon. 30th
September tender – Mon. 27th to 5.00 pm Mon. 11th Oct.
November tender – Mon. 8th to 5.00 pm on Mon. 22nd.
Additional material is likely to be offered by tender at ISTT Strahan and ISTT Smithton during 2010; notice will be provided on this site and be sent to persons on our email database.
See Tender Rules, Tender Sale Prices, Services and Delivery Options for more information.
Join the Tenders Database - If you wish to receive notice and information about material offered in future tenders send a brief request and your email address to murray.jessup@forestrytas.com.au
Timber Auction planned for November 2010 – an auction of various types and grades of seasoned special timbers material processed by ISTT Geeveston will be conducted at a venue (in or near Hobart if possible) and on a date to be confirmed.
Do You Need Raw Material ?
ISTT Geeveston has the following material for sale :
green logs – myrtle- plain and burled, white sassafras, wattle
short logs – 1.0 – 1.5 m lengths of celery-top pine, blackwood and myrtle
eucalypt burls and figured eucalypt logs – we can mill into slabs or timber
green & air dried timber – celery-top pine, myrtle, ti-tree, figured eucalypt, blackwood
air-dried slabbed logs – burled myrtle and black-heart sassafras
To discuss prices for this raw material or to discuss the availability of other pieces, eg stumps, crotch wood, mill waste etc contact Mr Chris Emmett - tel 03 6295 7161, mobile 0419 998 452 or email: chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au
New Dry Works Area under Development at ISTT Geeveston – a new area for docking, re-sawing, dressing and sanding seasoned timber is nearing completion. This will enable ISTT Geeveston to more efficiently process some material, especially highly figured timbers, box making kits, wide boards and slabs. Profiling and large machining orders will continue to be completed offsite by a contract timber machining business.
ISTT Smithton yard construction – a new operating site has been developed at 22790 Bass Highway, opposite Greenham Tasmania Pty Ltd, (to replace the original site required for a plywood peeling plant). Special timbers material is now available for sale so contact the Manager, Mr Stuart Swanson, to discuss your requirements for logs, building poles, burls, stumps and craftwood. This site will sell most of its production as raw material but can arrange milling services to process your purchases. Contact Stuart at email: stuart.swanson@forestrytas.com.au or tel 03 6433 2653 or mobile 0428 467 408.