You can also sell timber and logs in nearby Athens County and Hocking County.
Allensville
Creola
Dundas
Eagle Mills
Hamden
Hawks
Hope
Hue
Ingham
Jimtown
Knox
Minerton
Moonville
New Plymouth
Oreton
Orland
Prattsville
Puritan
Radcliff
Ratcliffburg
Ray
Richland
Siverly
Stella
Vales Mills
Vinton Furnace
Wilkesville
Zaleski
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 Vinton 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 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
April 27, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A man in Carroll County retained us to sell 40 acres of white pine trees near Carrollton, Ohio
April 16, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A man in Renfrey, PA called to sell timber on a 77-acre parcel in Butler County
April 1, 2026 | :Selling hardwood logs
A farmer near Beverly, Ohio called us to sell 50 hard maple and oak logs in Washington County
April 14, 2026 | Timber sale consultation
A farmer called to consult with us on selling 200 white pine trees in Delaware County
