Prices accepted in past IST Tenders
The prices shown below are based on prices accepted per cubic metre and indicate the range of offers expected for special timbers material offered for sale by tender. Of course each tender contains different material and competition for logs varies from tender to tender.
The price range of dollars per cubic metre shown for each material type approximates prices offered for the range of tendered logs, from smaller good quality logs up to the larger, highest quality pieces.
Eucalypt
Logs with fiddle-back grain - $300 - $500 / m3
Logs with burls or tear-drop figure - $250 - $900 / m3
Eucalypt burls
Burls with solid birds-eye grain - $2,000 + / m3
Burls with gum - $600 + / m3
Myrtle
Plain logs - $250 - $4,000 / m3 Old Downer logs - $200 - $1750 / m3
Burled logs or stumps - $350 - $1750 / m3
Tiger figure in logs or shorts - $1,000 - $6,100 / m3
Celery-top pine
Logs - $400 - $1,800 / m3
Log shorts, 1.0 m - 1.5 m - $250 - $350 / m3
Pole size logs - $500 - $600 / m3
Blackwood
Logs, plain grain - $250 - $865 / m3
Log shorts, good+ quality, plain grain, $275 / m3
Logs with birds-eye figure - from $550 - $2,700/ m3
Stump sections with fiddle-back grain - $500 - $800 / m3
Logs with fiddle-back grain - up to $1900 / m3
Leatherwood
Logs (salvaged) plain to purple-heart - $250 - $1,750 / m3
Sassafras
Logs, black-heart - $1,300 - $1,800 / m3
Huon Pine
Craft logs or pieces - from $1100 - $4400 / m3 depending on quality, grain and birds-eye figure
King Billy Pine craft pieces - $1,000 - $2,200 / m3
Silver Wattle logs
Plain - $160 - $465 / m
Log with figure $300 - $650 / m3
Banksia
Logs - $400 - $1,200 / m3
Hakea logs - $300 - $1575 / m3
Ti tree (leptospermum)
$500 - $1,500 / m3 with red heart colour
Dorrell
Logs - $330 - $1,350 / m3
Satin wood
Log $380 / m3
Musk
Logs - log + burl $290 - $2650 / m3
Cheesewood
Logs $330 - $1000 / m3
Results of the June 2026 tender at IST Geeveston $/m3 rounded down to next $25 multiple
Log 1 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 2 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 3 - Sassafras at butt end - 725
Log 4 - Sassafras at butt end - 900
Log 5 - Sassafras, black-heart - 1250
Log 6 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 7 - Sassafras - 950
Log 8 - Sassafras, black-heart - 700
Log 9 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 10 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 11 - Sassafras, black-heart - 1200
Log 12 - Sassafras, black-heart - 1200
Log 13 - Sassafras, black-heart - 1025
Log 14 - Sassafras, black-heart - no bid
Log 15 - Sassafras - no bid
Log 16 - Ti tree, red heart - 900
Log 17 - Ti tree, red heart - 900
Log 18 - Ti tree, red heart - 600
Log 19 - Ti tree, red heart - 1050
Log 20 - Ti tree, red heart - 625
Log 21 - Hakea - 1275
Log 22 - Hakea - 1575
Log 23 - Hakea - 1575
Log 24 - Hakea - 1575
Log 25 - Hakea - 800
Lot 26 - Hakea, 3 logs - 300
Lot 27 - Hakea, 3 logs - 350
Log 28 - Hakea, 3 logs - 300
Log 29 - Hakea - 1250
Log 30 - Hakea - 1025
Log 31 - Hakea - 300
Log 32 - Silver wattle - no bid
Log 33 - Silver wattle - no bid
Log 34 - Silver wattle - 450
Log 35 - Silver wattle - 450
Log 36 - Silver wattle - 575
Lot 37 - Eucalypt burl - 2025
Log 38 - Blackwood - 400
Log 39 - Blackwood - 600
Log 40 - Blackwood - 300
Log 41 - Blackwood - 725
Log 42 - Blackwood - 275
Log 43 - Myrtle downer - 600
Log 44 - Myrtle downer - 600
Log 45 - Myrtle downer - 450
Log 46 - Myrtle downer - 300
Log 47 - Myrtle downer - 450
Lot 48 - Musk stump and burl - 800
Lot 49 - Musk stump, some burl - no bid
Lot 50 - Musk stump, some burl - no bid
