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
