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 - $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 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
Small poles up to 250 mm diameter - $2025 / m3
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 April 2025
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Sassafras - no bids
Log 2, Sassafras - no bids
Log 3, Sassafras - no bids
Log 4, Sassafras - no bids
Log 5, Sassafras, light black-heart - no bids
Log 6, Sassafras - no bids
Log 7, Sassafras - no bids
Log 8, Sassafras - no bids
Log 9, Sassafras, black-heart - no bids
Log 10, Sassafras, black-heart - 650
Log 11, Sassafras, black-heart - 1900
Log 12, Sassafras - 650
Log 13, Sassafras - 1025
Log 14, Sassafras - no bids
Log 15, Sassafras - no bids
Log 16, Sassafras, small black-heart - no bids
Log 17, Sassafras - no bids
Log 18, Sassafras - no bids
Log 19, Sassafras, light black-heart - no bid
Log 20, Sassafras, black-heart - 1000
Log 21, Sassafras, small black-heart - no bids
Log 22, Sassafras, small black-heart - no bids
Log 23, Sassafras - no bids
Log 24, Blackwood - 575
Log 25, Blackwood - no bids
Log 26, Blackwood - no bids
Log 27, Blackwood - 400
Log 28, Blackwood - no bids
Log 29, Myrtle downer - 1050
Log 30, Myrtle downer - 1750
Log 31, Myrtle downer - no bids
Log 32, Myrtle downer - 500
Log 33, Myrtle downer - 875
Log 34, Eucalypt, tear drop figured - bid not accepted
Log 35, Eucalypt, tear drop figured - no bids
Log 36, Eucalypt, tear drop figured - bid not accepted
Log 37, Eucalypt, tear drop figured - 200
Log 38, Eucalypt, tear drop figured - bid not accepted
Log 39, Eucalypt, bulls eye figure - 200
Log 40, Silver wattle - no bids
Log 41, Silver wattle - 425
Log 42, Silver wattle - 300
Log 43, Silver wattle - no bid
Lot 44, Huon pine slabs, seasoned - no bids
Lot 45, Celery-top pine boards seasoned - no bids
