Ruahine Timber is a timber yard at 61 Thomson Street in Ormondville, serving Central and Southern Hawke's Bay. Its main product is treated fence posts and poles, in a large range of diameters and suitable for farm fencing, retaining walls, landscaping and sheds. The yard also mills and sells yard timber, does custom treatment of a customer's own dry timber, and planes and profiles customer timber such as flooring, decking and weatherboards, charged by the lineal metre. The posts are treated by CCA to H3, H4 and H5 retention, and the firm is a member of the Timber Preservation Council and Woodmark accredited. Core samples are taken from posts to check the treatment penetration.
Untreated peelings and shavings are sold as animal bedding or garden mulch. The post peelings are a larger grade, suited to calf sheds, and the shavings and sawdust are finer and compost faster. Pick-up is from the yard, or delivery is available by truck load of 35 cubic metres or trailer load of 8 cubic metres. Posts are sold only at Turton Farm Supplies in Dannevirke, Waipukurau and Masterton, and at Tumu in Dannevirke. A customer on Google says the post peelings have been used for 20 years for mulching with good results, and says the customer service is excellent.