You can also sell your timber and logs in nearby Geauga County, Trumbull County, Mahoning County, Stark County and Summit County.
Atwater
Aurora
Black Horse
Brady Lake
Brimfield
Campbellsport
Cobbs Corners
Diamond
Drakesburg
Earlville
Freedom Station
Garrettsville
Hiram
Hiram Rapids
Kent
Lloyd
Mahoning
Mantua
Mishler
Mogadore
Moran
New Milford
St. Joseph
Streetsboro
Suffield
Sugar Bush Knolls
Tallmadge
Twin Lakes
Wayland
Windham
Yale
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 Portage 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.
May 26, 2026 | Timber stand evaluation
A landowner near Wyndham us to evaluate his 37-acre stand for a potential timber sale in Portage County
May 21, 2026 | Timber stand evaluation
A farmer with 13 acres of timber near New Marshfield asked us to administrate a timber sale in Vinton County Ohio
May 20, 2026 | Timber sale negotiation
A farmer called us for help negotiating with a timber buyer in Carroll County Ohio
May 15 2026 | Forest management consultation
A landowner asked us for help finding a consulting forester in Pennsylvania
May 8, 2026 | Timber sale inquiry
A couple in Ashtabula County called us to evaluate selling timber from their 30-acre stand near Ashtabula
May 1, 2026 | Timber sale assistance
A man in Belmont County engaged us to sell 100 acres of timber near Bethesda, Ohio
