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 - Geeveston and Strahan below.
IST Geeveston March 2024,
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Sassafras, black-heart - 600
Log 2, Sassafras, black-heart - 1600
Log 3, Sassafras, black-heart / spalted - 1425
Log 4, Sassafras, black-heart / spalted - 1175
Log 5, Sassafras, black-heart - 850
Log 6, Sassafras, black-heart - 650
Log 7, Sassafras, black-heart - 725
Log 8, Sassafras, black-heart - 975
Log 9, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 10, Sassafras, black-heart - 625
Log 11, Sassafras, black-heart - 1025
Log 12, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 13, Sassafras, black-heart - 4225
Log 14, Sassafras - no bid
Log 15, Sassafras, black-heart - 600
Log 16, Sassafras, black-heart - 900
Log 17, Sassafras, black-heart - no bid
Log 18, Sassafras, black-heart - 800
Log 19, Sassafras, small black-heart - 550
Log 20, Sassafras, black-heart - 525
Log 21, Sassafras, black-heart - 750
Log 22, Sassafras, black-heart - 650
Log 23, Sassafras, black-heart - 1150
Log 24, Blackwood - 325
Log 25, Blackwood - no bid
Log 26, Blackwood - 475
Log 27, Blackwood - 250
Log 28, Blackwood - 350
Log 29, Blackwood - 925
Log 30, Eucalypt burl - 600
Lot 31, Eucalypt burl - 300
Log 32, Eucalypt, figured - 100
Log 33, Eucalypt, figured - 425
Log 34, Eucalypt, figured - no bid
Log 35, Eucalypt, figured - 175
Log 36, Silver wattle - 275
Log 37, Silver wattle - 350
Log 38, Silver wattle - no bid
Log 39, Silver wattle - no bid
Log 40, Silver wattle - no bid
Log 41, Silver wattle - no bid
STT Strahan Tender Results, February 2024,
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Myrtle - 175
Log 2, Myrtle - 175
Log 3, Myrtle - 150
Log 4, Myrtle - 275
Log 5, Myrtle - 75
Log 6, Myrtle - 275
Log 7, Myrtle - 75
Log 8, Myrtle - 275
Log 9, Myrtle - 450
Log 10, Myrtle - 575
Log 11, Myrtle - 325
Log 12, Myrtle - 575
Log 13, Myrtle - 275
Log 14, Myrtle - 575
Log 15, Myrtle - 575
Log 16, Myrtle - 500
Log 17, Myrtle - 450
Log 18, Myrtle - 575
Log 19, Myrtle - 450
Log 20, Myrtle - 200
Log 21, Myrtle - 575
Log 22, Myrtle - 600
Log 23, Myrtle - 600
Log 24, Myrtle - 575
Log 25, Sassafras, black-heart with burls - 850
Log 26, Sassafras, black-heart - 575
Log 27, Eucalypt - no bid
Log 28, Eucalypt - no bid
Log 29, Eucalypt - no bid
Log 30, Celery-top pine - 475
Log 31, Huon pine, burls / birds-eye - 6325
Log 32, Huon pine, burls - 2600
Log 33, Huon pine, burls - 3950
