Ancient kauri
how we recovered this wood from swamp land here on the Kauri Coast, Northland, New Zealand
the oldest workable wood in the World
lack of air and totally covered has preserved the kauri
It is believed that the ancient kauri forests were knocked over by tsunami which could have been caused by eruptions, earthquakes or other natural events
radio carbondating is done on samples of the kauri to determine the time the kauri wood has been laying in the swamplands
some ancient kauri has been carbon dated at up to 50,000 years
Lots of work
Rick Taylor
Cutting the ancient kauri stumps in to blanks
Special dry sheds where used to carefully dry the ancient kauri
(below) living kauri trees - Darby and Joan in the Waipoua Kauri Forest
approximately 45 minutes north/west of Dargaville
(below) Tane Mahuta - around 2000 years old
Waipoua Kauri Forest - north/west of Dargaville - only a five minute walk off State Highway 12 - only 1 hour north of The Woodturners Kauri Gallery and Studio
(below) one huge trunk of Ancient Kauri recovered from swampland
