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
