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
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 Tender Results, October 2024,
prices accepted in $/m3 at or rounded down to next $25 multiple.
Log 1, Sassafras, small black-heart - 375
Log 2, Sassafras, small black-heart - 250
Log 3, Sassafras, small black-heart - 475
Log 4, Sassafras - 325
Log 5, Sassafras - 1025
Log 6, Sassafras, black-heart - 750
Log 7, Blackwood - 175
Log 8, Blackwood - 300
Log 9, Blackwood - 175
Log 10, Blackwood - not sold
Log 11, Blackwood - 175
Log 12, Blackwood - 175
Log 13, Silver wattle - not sold
Log 14, Silver wattle - not sold
Log 15, Silver wattle - not sold
Log 16, Silver wattle - not sold
Log 17, Silver wattle - not sold
Log 18, Silver wattle - 500
Log 19, Eucalypt, tear drop - 225
Log 20, Eucalypt, tear drop - 150
Log 21, Eucalypt, tear drop - 175
Log 22, Eucalypt, tear drop - not sold
Log 23, Eucalypt, tear drop - 125
Log 24, Eucalypt, tear drop - 300
Log 25, Ti tree, red-heart 2 pcs - 500
Log 26, Ti tree, red-heart 2 pcs - 500
Log 27, Ti tree, red-heart 2 pcs - 500
Log 28, Ti tree, red-heart 2 pcs - 500
Log 29, Myrtle, downer - 375
Log 30, Myrtle, downer - 350
Log 31, Myrtle, downer - 350
Log 32, Myrtle, downer - 350
Log 33, Myrtle, downer - not sold
Log 34, Myrtle, downer - 400
Log 35, Sassafras, black-heart - 600
Log 36, Sassafras, black-heart - 650
Log 37, Sassafras - 275
Log 38, Sassafras - 275
Lot 39, Sassafras, black-heart - 2,800
Lot 40, Sassafras, black-heart - 2,100
Lot 41, Huon pine craft boards
Lot 42, Musk slabs
Lot 43, Myrtle boards
Lot 44, Blackwood boards
Lot 45, Eucalypt burl slabs
Lot 46, Ti tree boards
Lots 41 - 46 were sold post-tender and prices are not reported.
