Ironbark seat (example)
Where it stood, why it came down, and what it became.
Red Ironbark · Eucalyptus tricarpa
Storm-damaged limb union assessed as unsafe; the tree couldn't be retained, so the trunk was salvaged for reuse rather than mulched.
This Red Ironbark stood in Ashgrove Park, Thorncroft, for around a century, providing shade and habitat before storm damage forced its removal. The trunk was salvaged whole and stacked at the Arborcraft yard, waiting for its next life as furniture.
A dense, slow-growing hardwood of Victoria's box-ironbark country. The kind of tree that takes a century to make and can outlast the buildings around it.
A solid Red Ironbark seat, milled and finished from a single salvaged log. Approximately 3 metres long and 500mm in diameter, sanded to a natural finish.