You can also sell your trees and logs to timber buyers in nearby Guernsey County, Harrison County, Jefferson County, Monroe County and Noble County – and in West Virginia in Ohio County and Marshall County too.
Alledonia
Anvil
Armstrongs Mills
Badgertown
Bannock
Barnesville
Barton
Bellaire
Belmont
Bethesda
Blaine
Boston
Bridgeport
Brookside
Businessburg
Captina
Centerville
Colerain
Crescent
Dilles Bottom
Egypt
Fairpoint
Fairview
Farmington
Flushing
Glencoe
Hendrysburg
Holloway
Hunter
Jacobsburg
Key
Lafferty
Lamira
Lansing
Lloydsville
Martins Ferry
Maynard
McClainville
Morristown
Neffs
Pleasant Grove
Powhatan Point
Riverview
Sewellsville
Shadyside
Somerton
Steinersville
Stewartsville
Tacoma
Temperanceville
Uniontown
Warnock
Wilson
Wolfhurst
Yorkville
The volume of timber in a stand is the primary factory in calculating the value of timber. Ten acres is typically the minimum size that will hold enough mature trees to generate attractive offers.
Accessibility is the next main factor. Loggers will typically bid higher for readily-accessible timber, because less labor and equipment are needed to harvest it.
The final main factors are species and quality. Mature trees of at least 16-inches in diameter at breast-height (DBH) are mature and merchantable, and most trees smaller than this should be left to grow until a future harvest.
Mature black walnut and white oak trees have the most valuable logs of all, and they’re the ones that unethical loggers will invariably under-bid or try to trick you into selling before they’re fully mature.
Ash
Beech
Birch
Black Oak
Cherry
Chestnut
Elm
Hickory
Locust
Maple
Poplar
Red Oak
Tulip
Walnut
White Oak
White Pine
Yellow Pine
Yellow Poplar
Timber buyers and loggers can seem friendly and knowledgeable, and some are very good at pretending to be so. But you shouldn’t let them lead you to believe that they’re your friend or ally in the timber business.
Loggers are not paid to get you top dollar for your timber. In fact, every single one of them is incentivized to grab your timber for the lowest possible price they can persuade you to accept.
They also have many ways to trick unwary landowners including: low-balling, high grading, false scaling, deceitful point of cut scams, under-reporting the harvest and more.
And yes, these things happen here in Belmont County all the time.
No matter who they are, or how good you think their business reputation is (and even if they show up driving a horse and buggy) you should never let a logger onto your land without first talking to an experienced independent forester like us.
July 17, 2026 | Timber stand evaluation
A landowner with 43-acres of timber in Monroe County asked us to evaluate his stand for a potential sale
July 13, 2026 | Timber stand evaluation
A landowner with 53-acres of timber in Monroe County asked us to evaluate it for a possible sale.
July 11, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A man in Sewickly, PA with 14 acres of timber in Columbiana County asked for help selling it for top dollar.
July 11, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A landowner in Madison, Ohio asked us to help him sell timber from his 15-acre stand in Lake County
July 10, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A landowner near Harpersfield, with a low-ball offer from a logger, asked us to help him get a better price for his timber in Ashtabula County
July 8, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A landowner near the proposed Piketon data center site asked us for our help in selling 80 acres of timber in Pike County
