ARC Australian Red Cedar

Time was, the main timber used inside Australian homes and for fine furniture was Australian red cedar. Early cedar cutters helped open the the east coast of Australia to settlement by working their way north through the scrubs and river valleys from Sydney. Bullocks and horses were used to drag the cedars logs to the rivers and floods were used to carry them to ports along the coast.
And cedars were huge.

In the 1900s, a second wave of cedar cutters using trucks and bulldozers led by the indominable Bill Hayden saw red cedar again popular in post war building construction. And the cedars were huge.

Cedars are fast growing and have regenerated along the coastal regions, stock is available from auctions and from backyards and clearing. Not so huge....., but still beautiful timber.

Stock is also available from the sheds of old timers, many farmers over the past 100 years have had trees logged and sawn into boards and stored. Boards are not attacked by white ants and kept dry, they will last and last and last.

Mal has just recently obtained a truckload of cedar boards and old cedar house panels (painted green) that have been in storage for decades. old dark timber ready for work. And a few truckloads of logs as well, backyards on the north coast often have cedars planted as garden trees.... until they grew to be 'huge'.
 Check out the cedar trees in the streets of Kempsey; less than 30 years old and already 20 metres tall and 600mm through.