Action groups weekend field days in the Bay of Plenty

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It was dark and stormy night more than once during the week before the action groups weekend. However, we did not have to worry. The Bay of Plenty turned on the good weather for those who turned up for the field days at Tauriko Sawmill on 8 November.The theme of the field days was taking our wood to market and this mill was an ideal starting point for the weekendMike Moores and his family have been running this mill for over 20 years. Mike bought the property in 1991 when he admitted it was a bit of a mess. He wondered what to do with the land after clearing it, happened to notice a portable sawmill at a show and decided to give milling a chance. His father was a saw doctor and his grandfather a mill manager, so milling may have been in the genes.His son is now helping him take it from a hobby to a business and they now have customers all over New Zealand.The mill cuts timber to order, not for stock, as it costs too much to mill for stock and wait for orders.The market for the wood produced at the mill is includes Placemakers, ITM, builders, individuals, home owners and landscapers, in fact anyone who wants timber which is not radiata.The mill specialises in big beams, pillars and posts and some examples ofthese were the very big posts which we could see stacked behind us and later on a mill. They are wharf buffers from durable eucalypts for the port ofTauranga.