Maine Hardwood Log Prices

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.

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. All saw logs require 6 trim. Click for specs and prices. However there are several other factors that influence the price of timber by region.

As a logger and harvester of standing timber there are several factors to consider when determining the standing timber prices you will pay. Wood markets likely to stabilize after tumultuous winter. Prices updated september 21 2020. White ash 8 6 12 6 16 6 lengths preferred.

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. For example a 12 foot log 12 inches in diameter at the small end has 48 bf in it. Timber prices are directly affected by the forces of supply and demand. Hardwood prices continue to rise january 2014 landowners earning 250 mbf stumpage for hardwood mats september 2012.

Mills mills are the foundation of established timber markets because they determine what products can be. If mills don t need wood prices go down. 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. Hardwood pallet logs 20 00 to 75 00.

Log buyer email trevor direct. You first need to determine the costs of harvesting your logs. And some prices shown are averages of several bid sales that occurred in the same area around the same time. Another source of information are the prices reported to the maine forest service and published annually.

Hardwood sawtimber prices shown are based on per ton stumpage price. The chart with log prices should be read as price per 1000 bf. If mills need wood prices go up. Department of agriculture conservation and forestry 22 state house station 18 elkins lane augusta me 04333 more locations.

Red oak prime select and 1 logs 8 6 9 6 and 12 6 lengths preferred. 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. Huge spike in pulpwood prices. An up and down market.