We can also help you sell your timber elsewhere in northen Ohio, including in the adjacent counties of Huron County, Lorain County, and Sandusky County.
Avery
Axtel
Bay View
Berlin Heights
Berlinville
Beulah Beach
Birmingham
Bloomingville
Bogart
Castalia
Ceylon
Crystal Rock
Fairview Lanes
Florence
Huron
Kelleys Island
Milan
Mitiwanga
Ruggles Beach
Sandusky
Sandusky South
Vermilion
Whites Landing
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 Erie 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
