Jul 30, 2022 | About the Piners
Boat builders love Huon pine In this video, courtesy of our friends at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Randal Morrison tells us why Huon pine is so important as a boat building timber. Watch...
Feb 10, 2020 | About the Piners
It’s not just any bush, if you smell it again your memory goes back Tasmanian Special Timbers’ co-owner Randal Morrison was interviewed for the Western Wilds Story Stop project. He reminisced about his time as a child working on Huon Pine with his...
Sep 18, 2018 | About the Piners
If you think that places like Queenstown and Strahan are isolated, spare a thought for those living in the little settlement that surrounded the Princess River sawmill, in the King Valley east of Queenstown. Who came first, the cattle ranch or the Bradshaw family?...
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...
