Ancient Kauri

	Ancient Kauri from Dargaville, The Kauri Coast, Northland, New Zealand. Ancient Kauri is believed to be the oldest workable wood in the world today. Radio carbon dating shows that the wood has been laying in the peat swamps around our area of Northland, New Zealand for up to 50,000 years.
	Photos show extracting kauri logs in 2003. These trees could have been growing for up to 2,000 years. Look at the size of these trees and logs that have been buried for around o 3860 years! These buried forest are where we harvest our kauri wood from to use today and it is becoming more difficult to find and will soon run out making items made from kauri wood antiques of the future.
	Living Kauri trees can not be cut down so the only way we get kauri wood to use today is when it has been dug up from these swamplands containing Ancient kauri forests. Perhaps in only 5 to 10 years the source of ancient kauri will be exhausted. The trunk wood is used for furniture making such as tables, chairs, wall units.	We use the stump and crown or head wood where the best grains are found such as fiddleback, mottled, whitebait grains. Sometimes the colour is altered -we can have green kauri which is due to the tannin in the Manuka growing above the swamp reacting with the wood and kauri resin.
The swamp land where Ancient NZ kauri has lay under ground as far back as 50,000 years Plus growing time Photos Above Removing the Ancient kauri stumps after digging / Chitty farm Cutting up stumps for woodturning blanks Timber from a swamp test of around 3860 years Taking pieces of 45,000 year old log to the mill / this is only 1 piece of 4 from the one log By now it will be clear to you as you view this page that Ancient NZ kauri wood is or if not the oldest workable wood in the world Carbon dates have told us some of the ancient NZ kauri wood is as old as 50,000 years buried in peat swamp in Northland New Zealand We are proud to be able to use wood as old as the NZ ancient kauri in our life time Now You too could be proud to own a piece made from this old wood See our gallery pages for items made from this wood Thank you for viewing this page / photos taken & web page design by Rick Taylor This is part of an Ancient Kauri log taken from a swamp on the Kauri Coast One section weighed 28tons!. New DVD on sale now/NZ$39-00 each See the recovery and milling of these Ancient Kauri Forests from the kauri coast Northland New Zealand New dvd on sale now NZ$39-00 each / plus postage HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMOROW COVERED BY SAND OVER NIGHT These kauri forests in the sand can only be seen as the sand moves from them and then covers them again It was our lucky day to see them THANKS BARRY FOR THE DAY OUT ON THE BEACH Ancient kauri logs running out into the sea *These Ancient kauri logs are a buried forests along Ripiro beach they are many thousands of years old* PHOTOS OF THE KAURI FORESTS AND VOLCANIC ASH IN THE SAND HILL RIPIRO BEACH *Rimu River wood 2009* Photos below show Rimu totara and other Native New Zealand timbers that have been found on the bottom of Rivers around the Kauri coast and are now being pulled out ready for saw milling. These logs are about 100 years old and are logs that didn't get to the mills back in the early days They were lost on their way down the river ways to mills on the great Northern Wairoa River These logs were cut by man and marks on the logs show that they were pulled by bullock teams and have had dog pins and chains around them so the bullock teams could pull them to the water ways and dams Photos below shows the colour and grain of this Native New Zealand River Rimu *And now for a look at the first pens made from the River Rumi / photos below* *Price NZ$45-00 each plus postage* *Now forsale river rimu pen blanks 3/4" x 3/4" x 5 1/2" long / NZ$30-00 EACH PLUS POSTAGE* To see more photos on the New Zealand river logs visit my photo gallery page on this website