Prices accepted in past IST Tenders, most at IST Geeveston
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 - $950 / 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 stain - $500 - $5,200 / m3, average quality $1500+ / m3, exceptional logs sold to $5,200 / m3
Sassafras logs, spalted - $350 - $1,650 / m3
Sassafras logs, plain colour - $500 - $1,500 / m3
Huon Pine
Craft logs or pieces - from $550 - $7,600 / 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
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
Most Recent Tender Prices Accepted
STT Strahan Tender Results, May 2024,
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 2, Sassafras, black-heart - 1050
Log 3, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 4, Sassafras, black-heart - 950
Log 5, Sassafras, black-heart - 1100
Log 6, Sassafras, black-heart - 900
Log 7, Sassafras, black-heart - 1050
Log 8, Sassafras, black-heart - 1050
Log 9, Sassafras, black-heart - 1125
Log 10, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 11, Blackwood - not sold
Log 12, Blackwood - not sold
Log 13, Blackwood - not sold
Log 14, Myrtle - 350
Log 15, Myrtle, split half - 300
Log 16, Myrtle - not sold
Log 17, Myrtle, split half - not sold
Log 18, Eucalypt, tear drop - 500
Log 19, Eucalypt, tear drop - 50
Log 20, Eucalypt, tear drop - 200
Log 21, Huon pine with birds-eye - 2600
Log 22, Huon pine with burls / birds-eye - 3225
Log 23, Myrtle - not sold
Log 24, Myrtle - not sold
Log 25, Myrtle - not sold
Log 26, Myrtle - not sold
Log 27, Myrtle - not sold
Log 28, Myrtle - not sold
Log 29, Myrtle - not sold
Log 32, Myrtle - 150
Log 33, Myrtle - not sold
Log 34, Myrtle - not sold
Log 35, Myrtle - not sold
Log 36, Myrtle - not sold
Log 37, Myrtle - not sold
Log 38, Myrtle - not sold
Log 39, Myrtle - not sold
Log 40, Myrtle - not sold
