Thread: Buying Logs - Wholesale

I just scored some dry Gidgee and Red Lancewood logs, 200mm dia x 500mm worked out to be around $30 each, which I considered cheap. Green out bush I'd expect the same for around half that or less. I bought dry and dressed Cooktown ironwood planks 6No 90x20mm x 2.5m for $30.

Thanks. I'm trying to decide if these numbers represent prices that would be seen for container-load quantities or are they just one-time prices between woodies. Your first example is $30 for 1.66 bdft (Doyle scale). That looks like $18/bdft or 4.5 times the number that I gave above. The logs that I am thinking of will be 2.0-2.5m long and 12-18 inches in diameter. That may be part of the reason for the discrepancy in prices.

My prices definitely represent one time prices between woodies, it would be less for container loads of logs, especially if green. Not sure if anyone has that sort of quantity of Gidgee to sell, Cooktown Ironwood maybe.

Good luck with it, price sounds good anyway, but I am just a backyard hack

It was a fair while ago, but I bought some Cooktown Ironwood logs for $80 per cubic meter. From a mill. I got about 4 cubic meters at that time.

Originally Posted by Ironwood

It was a fair while ago, but I bought some Cooktown Ironwood logs for $80 per cubic meter. From a mill. I got about 4 cubic meters at that time.

Well, if I did this correctly, the price per bdft (Doyle scale) was

$1.79 (12 inch diameter logs)
$2.21 (10 inch diameter logs)
$3.16 ( 8 inch diameter logs)

where you can see that the result depends on the log diameter (something that I was not told). I have assumed the the cuber meter corresponds to strictly timber and not any interstital air.

http://utextension.tennessee.edu/pub...nts/pb1650.pdf

Originally Posted by Runge

Well, if I did this correctly, the price per bdft (Doyle scale) was

$1.79 (12 inch diameter logs)
$2.21 (10 inch diameter logs)
$3.16 ( 8 inch diameter logs)

where you can see that the result depends on the log diameter (something that I was not told). I have assumed the the cuber meter corresponds to strictly timber and not any interstital air.

http://utextension.tennessee.edu/pub...nts/pb1650.pdf

That was the price based on the outside dimensions of the log, means I paid the same price for the air in the pipe up the centre of one log. These logs were 600mm to 1meter wide. (24" to 40" wide)

Originally Posted by Ironwood

That was the price based on the outside dimensions of the log, means I paid the same price for the air in the pipe up the centre of one log. These logs were 600mm to 1meter wide. (24" to 40" wide)

Wow, those are big trees!!

$1.13 (24 inch diameter logs)
$0.97 (40 inch diameter logs)