Mar 15, 2020 | Origin Stories
We’re alive to tell the story – a childhood at Princess River. Tasmanian Special Timbers’ staff member Vicki Knowles (nee Bradshaw) was interviewed for the Western Wilds’ Story Stop project. Vicki told us delightful and hair raising...
Jan 26, 2019 | Origin Stories
It’s many people’s vision of heaven – sipping a dram of malt whisky while toasting your feet by the fire. Tasmania is beautifully situated with the raw materials for fine whisky making: an abundance of pure, soft water; good quality barley; and large areas of peat...
Nov 6, 2018 | Origin Stories
Bill Gammage, in his brilliant book The Biggest Estate on Earth describes fire as ‘drought with legs’. He also explains how ‘eucalypts and fire formed an alliance, which people joined’.Australians living in almost the entire continent are familiar with fire as an...
Aug 13, 2018 | About the Piners, Origin Stories
In a way, the Huon piners had it easy: Row 20–50km across the Harbour and up a river, find a place on the steep banks to get out of the dinghy, walk a few paces into the forest to find a good Huon pine tree, spend all day with axe and crosscut saw cutting it down, and...
May 22, 2018 | Origin Stories, Sales
Welcome to the new website of Tasmanian Special Timbers. This rebuilt site marks a new chapter in Tasmanian Special Timbers’ operations: while our sawmill near Queenstown and the shop on the Strahan waterfront will still sell the majority of our timber, for the...
