Tender Price Archive

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

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

IST Geeveston November 2023, prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple. 

Log 1, Sassafras, black-heart - 1625

Log 2, Sassafras - no bid

Log 3, Sassafras  - 75

Log 4, Sassafras, black-heart / plain - 200

Log 5, Sassafras, black-heart - 450

Log 6, Sassafras, black-heart - 1500

Log 7, Sassafras, black-heart - 425

Log 8, Sassafras, black-heart - 575

Log 9, Sassafras, black-heart - 925

Log 10, Sassafras, black-heart - 1425

Log 11, Sassafras, black-heart / plain - 175

Log 12, Sassafras, plain - no bids

Log 13, Sassafras, light black-heart / plain - 175

Log 14, Sassafras, plain - 350

Log 15, Sassafras, black-heart, small - 200

Log 16, Sassafras, small black-heart - no bids 

Log 17, Sassafras,  black-heart / plain - 350

Log 18, Sassafras, black-heart - 450

Log 19, Sassafras, small black-heart -350

Log 20, Sassafras, small black-heart - 800

Log 21, Sassafras, black-heart - 325

Log 22, Sassafras, black-heart - 575

Log 23, Sassafras, plain -550

Log 24, Sassafras, black-heart - 2000

Log 25, Sassafras, black-heart -1000

Log 26, Sassafras, black-heart - 550

Log 27, Sassafras, black-heart - 275

Log 28, Musk with root burls - 75

Log 29, Musk with root burls - 75

Log 30, Musk log with root burls -150

Lot 31, Musk log with root burls - 100

Log 32, Musk log with root burls -350

Log 33, Musk log with root burls - 100

Log 34, Musk log with root burls - 200

Log 35, Musk log with root burls - 150

Log 36, Musk log with root burls - 150

Log 37, Musk log with root burls - 125

Log 38, Musk log - 150

Log 39, Ti tree, red-heart - 500

Log 40, Ti tree, red-heart - 300

Log 41, Ti tree, red-heart - no bids

Log 42, Ti tree, red-heart - 450

Log 43, Ti tree, red-heart - 500

Log 44, Ti tree, red-heart - 500

Log 45, Ti tree, red-heart - 500

Log 46, Ti tree, red-heart - 500

Log 47, Ti tree, red-heart - 475

Log 48, Ti tree, red-heart -300

Log 49, Ti tree, red-heart - 1150

Log 50, Eucalypt, tear drop - 375

Log 51, Eucalypt, tear drop - no bids

Log 52, Eucalypt, tear drop - 175

Log 53, Eucalypt, tear drop - no bids

Log 54, Eucalypt, burls & gum - 1000

Log 55, Eucalypt, burls & gum - 150

Log 56, Eucalypt, tear drop & gum - no bids 

Log 57, Eucalypt, tear drop -200

Log 58, Silver wattle - 475

Log 59, Silver wattle - no bids 

Log 60, Silver wattle, tear drop - 425

Log 61, Silver wattle, tear drop - no bids 

Log 62, Silver wattle, tear drop - 475

Log 63, Myrtle - 250

Log 64, Myrtle -500

Log 65, Myrtle - 750

Log 66, Blackwood - 550

Log 67, Blackwood - 300

Lot 68, Sassafras stump, black-heart - 25

Log 69, Sassafras stump, black-heart - 175

Log 70, Sassafras stump, black-heart - 25