The next regular Tender of special timbers logs and timber will commence on Monday 15 February 2010 and conclude at 5.00 pm on Monday 1 March 2010. Most material will be available at ISTT Geeveston but some logs and craftwood will be provided by ISTT Strahan and ISTT Smithton, and be available for inspection at these locations. Descriptions and images of material in the February 2010 Tender will be on this website by February 12.
ISTT Geeveston will be available to mill any special timbers logs purchased in the February 2010 tender, and pack all resulting timber for delivery anywhere in Australia.
If you wish to inquire about, order or purchase special timbers raw material, sawn timber or slabs from ISTT Geeveston, please email the Manager at chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au or call Tel (03) 6295 7161 or his mobile 0419 998 452, between 8.00 am and 4.30 pm each business week day.
ISTT Smithton - the new yard at Smithton for Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania will open for business during March 2010. The Manager, Stuart Swanson sources blackwood, myrtle, tiger myrtle, black-heart sassafras, celery-top pine and less common material such as native olive, goldy wood, paperbark, etc, for sale directly and by tender. Contact Stuart to discuss your requirements for logs, building poles, burls, stumps and craftwood email: stuart.swanson@forestrytas.com.au or tel 03 6433 2653 or mobile 0428 467 408.
Full contact options for ISTT Geeveston, ISTT Strahan (Huon Pine craftwood pieces - not sawn timber) and ISTT Smithton (for logs, burls, craftwood and building poles) are provided below and on the Contacts 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!
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).
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania at Geeveston is a licensed Chain of Custody member, to guarantee customers that all its raw material and products are Tasmanian fine timbers sourced from forests whose management is certified to the Australian Forestry Standard. The Chain of Custody system is managed by Fine Timber Tasmania Inc., maintained by a coordinator and is annually assessed by independent auditors.
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) 6295 7161
Fax: (03) 6295 7162
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 - during June, July and August only by appointment but September - May from 9.00 am – 12 noon
Mail address: ISTT Geeveston, c/- Forestry Tasmania, Main Road, Geeveston, Tasmania, 7116.
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, Strahan, 5 Frazer Street, Strahan.
For Huon Pine craftwood logs, limbwood & stumps
Business Hours: Monday - Friday but call in advance for an appointment.
Manager: Leigh Clark
Tel: (03) 6472 6003
Fax: (03) 6472 6001
Mobile: 0418 599 205
leigh.clark@forestrytas.com.au
Mail address: ISTT Strahan, c/- Forestry Tasmania,
PO Box 21, Strahan, Tasmania, 7468.
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, Smithton
For logs, burls, craftwood and building poles
Manager: Stuart Swanson
Tel: (03) 6433 2653
Mobile: 0428 467 408
Email: stuart.swanson@forestrytas.com.au
Mail address: ISTT Smithton, PO Box 68 Burnie TAS 7320
