Prices accepted in past IST Tenders, most at IST Geeveston
The prices shown below are based on prices accepted per cubic metre and indicate the range of offers expected for special timbers material offered for sale by tender. Of course each tender contains different material and competition for logs varies from tender to tender.
The price range of dollars per cubic metre shown for each material type approximates prices offered for the range of tendered logs, from smaller good quality logs up to the larger, highest quality pieces.
Eucalypt
Logs with fiddle-back grain - $300 - $500 / m3
Logs with burls or tear-drop figure - $250 - $900 / m3
Eucalypt burls
Burls with solid birds-eye grain - $2,000 + / m3
Burls with gum - $600 + / m3
Myrtle
Plain logs - $250 - $4,000 / m3 Old Downer logs - $200 - $950 / m3
Burled logs or stumps - $350 - $1750 / m3
Tiger figure in logs or shorts - $1,000 - $6,100 / m3
Celery-top pine
Logs - $400 - $1,800 / m3
Log shorts, 1.0 m - 1.5 m - $250 - $350 / m3
Pole size logs - $500 - $600 / m3
Blackwood
Logs, plain grain - $250 - $865 / m3
Log shorts, good+ quality, plain grain, $275 / m3
Logs with birds-eye figure - from $550 - $2,700/ m3
Stump sections with fiddle-back grain - $500 - $800 / m3
Logs with fiddle-back grain - up to $1900 / m3
Leatherwood
Logs (salvaged) plain to purple-heart - $250 - $1,750 / m3
Sassafras
Logs, black-heart stain - $500 - $5,200 / m3, average quality $1500+ / m3, exceptional logs sold to $5,200 / m3
Sassafras logs, spalted - $350 - $1,650 / m3
Sassafras logs, plain colour - $500 - $1,500 / m3
Huon Pine
Craft logs or pieces - from $550 - $7,600 / m3 depending on quality, grain and birds-eye figure
Small poles up to 250 mm diameter - $2025 / m3
King Billy Pine craft pieces - $1,000 - $2,200 / m3
Silver Wattle logs
Plain - $160 - $465 / m
Log with figure $300 - $650 / m3
Banksia
Logs - $400 - $1,200 / m3
Ti tree (leptospermum)
$500 - $1,500 / m3 with red heart colour
Dorrell
Logs - $330 - $1,350 / m3
Satin wood
Log $380 / m3
Musk
Logs - log + burl $290 - $2650 / m3
Cheesewood
Logs $330 - $1000 / m3
Most Recent Tender Prices Accepted
IST Geeveston February 2025
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Sassafras, black-heart - 500
Log 2, Sassafras, black-heart - 500
Log 3, Sassafras, black-heart - 675
Log 4, Sassafras, black-heart - 450
Log 5, Sassafras, black-heart - 450
Log 6, Sassafras, black-heart - 1200
Log 7, Sassafras, black-heart - 1975
Log 8, Sassafras, black-heart - 800
Log 9, Sassafras, black-heart - 1000
Log 10, Sassafras, black-heart - 775
Log 11, Sassafras, black-heart - 2075
Log 12, Sassafras, black-heart - 1925
Log 13, Sassafras, black-heart - 1025
Log 14, Sassafras, black-heart - 225
Log 15, Sassafras, black-heart - 800
Log 16, Sassafras, black-heart - 725
Log 17, Sassafras, black-heart - 1800
Log 18, Sassafras, black-heart - 1725
Log 19, Sassafras, black-heart - 975
Log 20, Sassafras, black-heart - 1925
Log 21, Ti tree - 1075
Log 22, Ti tree - no bids
Log 23, Ti tree - no bids
Log 24, Ti tree - 1100
Log 25, Ti tree - 750
Log 26, Ti tree - no bids
Log 27, Ti tree - no bids
Log 28, Huon pine craft grade - 1150
Log 29, Huon pine craft grade - 1050
Log 30, Huon pine craft grade - 825
Log 31, Eucalypt, figured - 100
Log 32, Eucalypt, figured - 200
Log 33, Eucalypt, figured - 300
Log 34, Eucalypt, figured - 100
Log 35, Eucalypt, figured - no bids
Log 36, Eucalypt, figured - 100
Log 37, Eucalypt, figured - 250
Log 38, Myrtle downer - no bids
Log 39, Myrtle downer - no bids
Log 40, Myrtle downer - 275
Log 41, Myrtle downer 150
Log 42, Myrtle downer - 250
Log 43, Eucalypt burl and half log - not sold
Lot 44, Eucalypt figured timber - not sold
Lot 45, Eucalypt figured timber - not sold
Lot 46, Eucalypt figured timber - not sold
Lot 47, Eucalypt figured timber - not sold
