If you have been logging for a year or more all you need to do is look over your books for the past year.
Maine hardwood log prices.
Hardwood prices continue to rise january 2014 landowners earning 250 mbf stumpage for hardwood mats september 2012.
You then look at the grade rules to determine the grade of the log.
As a logger and harvester of standing timber there are several factors to consider when determining the standing timber prices you will pay.
Red oak prime select and 1 logs 8 6 9 6 and 12 6 lengths preferred.
Log buyer email trevor direct.
Prices are based on an average calculated from a sample of timber buyers across the u s and only intended to provide an estimate of trends and current prices.
Instability in the market.
Hardwood sawtimber prices shown are based on per ton stumpage price.
White ash 8 6 12 6 16 6 lengths preferred.
And some prices shown are averages of several bid sales that occurred in the same area around the same time.
First even though statewide or regional prices can provide a taste of the level and trends of prices what your timber is worth is somewhat dependent on local market conditions.
Wood markets likely to stabilize after tumultuous winter.
The chart with log prices should be read as price per 1000 bf.
All saw logs require 6 trim.
Hardwood pallet logs 20 00 to 75 00.
You first need to determine the costs of harvesting your logs.
Timber prices are directly affected by the forces of supply and demand.
Prices updated september 21 2020.
An up and down market.
In other words if you add a decimal in front that would be price per board foot.
Trevor is responsible for buying spruce fir logs treelength highgrade direct to both stratton lumber and fontaine sawmills as well as into our east newport passadumkeag rumford maine log yards.
Department of agriculture conservation and forestry 22 state house station 18 elkins lane augusta me 04333 more locations.
If your timber grows near a lot of mills your timber might command a higher price than if the timber were far from mills or close to only one or two mills.
Another source of information are the prices reported to the maine forest service and published annually.
Mills mills are the foundation of established timber markets because they determine what products can be.
For example a 12 foot log 12 inches in diameter at the small end has 48 bf in it.
Huge spike in pulpwood prices.
If mills need wood prices go up.
