Barberton
Bath
Boston
Boston Heights
Botzum
Brandywine
Comet
Copley
Cuyahoga Falls
Everett
Fairlawn
Franklin
Ghent
Green
Greensburg
Hudson
Lakemore
Macedonia
Mogadore
Montrose
Montrose-Ghent
Munroe Falls
Myersville
New Franklin
Northampton
Northfield
Norton
Peninsula
Pigeon Creek
Portage
Portage Lakes
Reminderville
Richfield
Sawyerwood
Silver Lake
Stow
Tallmadge
Twinsburg
Twinsburg Heights
Western Star
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. Â
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. Â
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.
AshÂ
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. Â
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. Â
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 Clinton all the time.Â
No matter who they are, or how good you think their business reputation is (and even if they drive a horse and buggy) you should never let a logger onto your land without first talking to an experienced independent forester like us.
October 22, 2026
An investor with 120 acres of timbered land near Clymer, New York called to ask us to evaluate it for a sale.
October 20, 2026
A man in Indiana owns 80 acres of timber in Rockcastle County KY and wants to sell some, but doesn’t know who he cant trust there, so he called us for help.
October 19, 2026
A man with 124 acres of timber in Ohio County Kentucky asked us to help him sell all the cedar trees on it.
October 16, 2026
A farmer in Grainger County Tennessee asked us to help him sell a 10-acre tract of pine trees near Rutledge.
October 15, 2026
A woman with a 30-acre timber stand in Harrison County KY asked us to help her sell some of it
October 14, 2026
A couple with 20 acres of standing timber in Greene County PA asked us to sell their timber for them.
