Talbot Timbers
Alistair and Roslyn Hull and their family are Talbot Timbers
and both have a long history in forest-related industries.
Roslyn’s family worked in the dense and luxuriant
forests of the Otway Ranges, as well as with the messmate,
peppermint and swamp gums that characterise the Wombat
Forest. The Hull family came to Talbot, the heart of Central
Victoria’s Box and Ironbark forest, in the 1850s
and progressed from cutting firewood through fencing products
to leaf harvesting eucalyptus oil, before turning their
attention in the late 1980s to producing high value-added
timber products.
Recognising the intrinsic value of the Ironbark species,
Talbot Timbers began in 1986, cutting timber for posts
and firewood. As the business grew, along with the Hull’s
commitment to doing more with less, adding value to
the harvested timber they imported and F2000 Kara mill
from Finland to process smaller logs and installed a
Branco gas fired kiln to better control timber stability
and quality.
In 2004 Talbot Timbers opened a showroom at Talbot
to display the exquisite beauty of its hard wood flooring,
parquetry wall panelling, external cladding, decking
and furniture timbers. We also installed a large solar
powered drying kiln which uses less energy to dry the
timber. The solar powered kiln is just one example of
our continuous quest for innovative harvesting and processing
methods that will increase supply options for the Goldfields
Timber Network and Talbot Timbers.
As architects and home owners rediscover the ‘secret’
of the rich and warm Victorian hardwoods, Talbot Timbers
continues to grow and new markets at home and overseas
are developing, particularly for our Goldfields red
and white Ironbark, Grey box and Sugar Gum timbers and
their hallmark exceptional strength, durability, appearance
and hardness.
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