Originally Posted by Drake322
Originally Posted by Beer Belly
Originally Posted by 2Dogs
Originally Posted by Drake322
Buy the ton is the only way I would ever sell any timber. You could still hire someone to give you an FMV is you wanted an cut estimate. Good logger is a must also. He can make you pocket book bigger if he is a good merchandizer.


I hope you aren't selling hardwood grade logs by the ton.


Showing my ignorance: I honestly don't know what you are getting at by that statement.

High grade hardwood or big pine is sold on the scale. Board footage is calculated using a stick scale or one of three other methods that already have the volume calculated for you.


Correct, but here's what makes it pretty much impossible in our area. There will be several species of trees on a price sheet, within those species there will be several grades. Say you pull on the yard with a trailer load, you may have white oak, red oak, poplar, chestnut oak, walnut and we'll throw in hard maple and cherry or two. Within all those species you'll have several grades , all different prices per 1,000BF. Next load may have a much different mix of species and grade. It's just not done in real hardwood country. I understand it is in LA . I am also told the folks that buy hardwood by the ton in LA will pull high grade logs out and ship them North , flipping them for big $. I know I would.

I was told there was a feller got a wild idee and tried buying by the ton up here. Of course he had to pay a good price to compete with all the many mills that scale . After a load or two the loggers started bringing only junk and low grade logs. Didn't work out as planned for him.


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