Timber

Many years ago, timber from the Brisbane Valley was highly sort after.  In the 1800’s there was three local sawmills in operation. With the nearby Coominya sawmill being adjacent to the railway station.  The mills are now long gone, and the bush has regenerated.

Today at HoneyDale we have eucalypt woodland with a shrubby wattle understory.  We have some beautiful tall trees, in particular - Spotted Gum, Narrow leaf Ironbark, Narrow leaf Red Gum, Pink Bloodwood and Rusty Gum.

In building our little Bush Retreat, we want to showcase the bush by highlighting the beauty of the local wood.  We will use salvaged logs to make benchtops and trim.  But to get to this stage, requires some hard work.

Selecting a nice straight log

After selecting the fallen logs, they must be slabbed using a chainsaw with a slabbing attachment. Then cut to size using a table saw and dressed using a thickness-planer.

So far, we have slabbed enough wood to make 2.5m of bench. Quite a lot more to go yet!  

But we do have a lot of fallen timber on the property, which would otherwise be left to rot.

Setting up

First slab from this log

Slabbing - its dusty work