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John Fairweather Specialty Timber Solutions - Turning Trees into something special
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...use New Zealand-grown hardwoods
We specialise in quality hardwood solid timber flooring. We take logs and mill them carefully to produce stress relieved timber, then dry and machine the timber into specialty products. This comprehensive process requires skill and specialised machinery.
Services:
Bring your log or logs to me and I will mill them into whatever size timber you want.
My Wood-Mizer LT70 can cut slabs up to 700mm wide. The mill can handle logs up to 6m long and 1m in diameter.
This service costs $140 per hour or $2.50 per minute for shorter jobs.
Recent jobs include macrocarpa benchtops, railway sleepers cut for flooring, and sundry feature logs for joinery work.
Bring your timber to me and I will machine it into your required profile.
The Logosol planer moulder can produce a variety of machined timber.
I have some profile knives in stock and can have a knife for any profile prepared.
The log specifications are:
Small end diameter >40cm
Log length 3m
Average diameter 45cm but can take up to 1m
No branches, some small branch stubs acceptable.
Freshly felled/crosscut.
Main timber species:
Eucalyptus
Acacia
Poplar
Macrocarpa (cut to customers’ preferred size)
Machined timber:
Tongue and groove flooring
Parquet flooring
Skirting boards and mouldings.
Laminated timber:
Benchtops
Stair treads
Tables
Milled timber:
Outdoor above-ground use
Outdoor in-ground use (Ironbark)
Timber for fine furniture
Decking
Yard rails
Bridges.
...use New Zealand-grown hardwoods
John Fairweather Specialty Timber Solutions produces hardwood timber products from eucalyptus trees grown in Canterbury.
Yard Address: 162 Harleston Road, Sefton, North Canterbury
Phone number: 021 211 0705, 03 352 0447 evenings
Email: jrf@xtra.co.nz
Office Address: 180 Cavendish Road, Casebrook, Christchurch, 8051
All correspondence and small deliveries to the office at 180 Cavendish Road, Casebrook, Christchurch, 8051.
Directions from Christchurch:
North on Highway One, cross Ashley River, cross Saltwater Creek
Then take first on left, Broad Road
Take first right into Harleston Road
Directions from Amberley:
South on Highway One past Pukeko Junction Café
Take first on right, Harleston Road
Directions from Rangiora:
Go over the Ashley Bridge and right into Fawcett’s Road
Go to Sefton and proceed East on road to Amberley
As the main road turns to North, turn right over railway line into Harleston Road