Preferred Timber Species

Blackbutt


One of the most commercially important hardwood species in northern New South Wales. It has light brown to yellowish brown heartwood, is straight grained, of moderate to good durability and used in furniture, flooring, building, poles, railway sleepers and pulp.

Spotted Gum

A strong durable and dense hardwood with light brown to dark brown heartwood often with attractive fiddleback. Used in heavy construction, furniture, flooring, tool handles and preservative treated poles.

Tallowwood

A very strong extremely durable dense timber with a yellowish brown heartwood. Used for heavy engineering construction, railway sleepers, poles, crossarms, sills, flooring and decking.

Ironbark

Very hard, very strong and very durable, tough timber with a dark brown or redbrown colour. Used for heavy engineering construction, poles, railway sleepers and crossarms.

Brush Box

A strong, very tough and very hard timber with light to medium pinkish brown heartwood. Timber is used for bridge and wharf decking, flooring, general construction, and other specialist woodworking uses.

There are no images in this gallery.

Turpentine

A hard, strong, durable, and dense timber with a red to reddish brown fine and even textured heartwood. The timber is highly resistant to decay and termite attack and because of its durability is an extremely suitable timber for purposes such as piles, poles, girders, beams and wharf decking.

There are no images in this gallery.

Sydney Blue Gum

A straight-grained, relatively easy to work, fix, dress and finish timber with a pink to red heartwood. Used for general construction, furniture, flooring, cladding and panelling.

Flooded Gum

A straight-grained, moderately strong, moderately durable timber with a pink to light red heartwood. Used for general construction, joinery, plywood, panelling, boat building and flooring.

Gympie Messmate

A hard, extremely durable, strong timber with a yellowish brown heartwood. Used for heavy engineering.

There are no images in this gallery.

 

site by café media