Current Tender of Logs - thirteen high quality special timbers logs are available for inspection at Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, Geeveston, on weekdays from 8.00 am - 4.30 pm and on Saturday from 9.00 am - 12.00 pm, until Monday 29 June 2009.
Written offers to purchase these tender logs will close at 5.00 pm on Monday 29 June 2009. The tender form can be downloaded from the description page for each piece and can be posted to ISTT Geeveston, c/- Forestry Tasmania, Main Road, Geeveston, 7116 or faxed to (03) 6295 7162 or delivered to ISTT Geeveston at Cemetery Road, to arrive by 5.00 pm on Monday 29 June 2009.
If you wish to inquire about, order or purchase special timbers raw material, sawn timber or slabs, please email the Manager at chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au or call Tel (03) 6297 1479, between 8.00 am and 4.30 pm each business day. ISTT Geeveston is also open each Saturday from 9.00 am - 12.00 pm for purchases.
Full contact options for ISTT Geeveston and for ISTT Strahan (Huon Pine craftwood pieces - not sawn timber) are provided at the bottom of this page.
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania receive or select logs, burls and stumps of special timbers from Tasmania's working forests to sell or process into slabs or timber for furniture or craft designer / makers, woodturners, builders and luthiers.
Our specialty is to make available highly figured or coloured timber such as fiddle-back, birds-eye, flame and burl feature or the spectacular colours in black-heart sassafras, tiger myrtle or purple-heart leatherwood.
We stock Blackwood, Celery-top Pine, Myrtle, Black-heart Sassafras, figured Eucalypts, Huon Pine and occaisionally musk, Leatherwood and King William Pine.
We sell green burls, craftwood, utility logs, sawlogs, building poles, posts for fencing plus green timber, air and kiln seasoned timber and slabs, (rough sawn and dressed), green and dry turning blanks and decking timber.
Special orders for your craft, furniture or building project are welcome, eg slabs to 900 mm wide, beams, squares or posts to 13 metres long, boards and thin timber to 5 mm and slabs or beams to 500 mm thick - our quotes are free!
Tender sales of selected special timbers logs, stumps and craftwood are conducted about six times each year. Images of the material for sale are posted on this website with information about inspection options.
The special timbers processed by Island Special Timbers Tasmania are harvested from forests whose managment by Forestry Tasmania has been certified under national and international standards, such as the Australian Forestry Standard and the International Standards for Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001).
Huon Pine material is sourced from sites previously harvested for sawlogs and from stockpiles salvaged prior to dam construction, many years ago. Eighty five (85) per cent of Huon Pine forests are permanently reserved for conservation within National Parks and Reserves.
Contacts
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, Geeveston.
For special timbers burls, poles, logs and sawn timber
Manager: Chris Emmett
Tel: (03) 6297 1479
Fax: (03) 6297 1966
Mobile: 0419 998 452
chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au
Cemetery Road, off Arve Road, Geeveston, Tasmania
Business Hours: Monday – Friday 8.00 am – 4.00 pm,
Saturday 9.00 am – 12 noon
Mail address: ISTT Geeveston, c/- Forestry Tasmania, Main Road, Geeveston, Tasmania, 7116.
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, Strahan.
For Huon Pine craftwood logs, limbwood & stumps
Manger: Leigh Clark
Tel: (03) 6472 6000
Fax: (03) 6472 6001
Mobile: 0418 599 205
leigh.clark@forestrytas.com.au
Forestry Tasmania office, The Esplanade, Strahan, Tasmania
(opposite Gordon River cruise terminals)
Business Hours: Monday – Friday, Oct. – May 9.00 am – 5.00 pm,
June – September 10 am – 3.00 pm
Mail address: ISTT Strahan, c/- Forestry Tasmania,
PO Box 21, Strahan, Tasmania, 7468.
