How is Standing Timber Priced

[Tdawg]

Well, me and the dog have been doing a lot of driving and walking but I haven't come across any areas being logged right now...so no pics of the log piles. Let's say these trees are (for round figures) 100' tall. The limbs don't start until maybe 75'. Would I be correct in assuming that there would be 75' of sawlogs and 25' of pulp?

Swampdonkey, I hadn't considered that the different piles were for different products.

Thanks again,
Terry

[Ron Wenrich]

Depending on your area, sawlogs generally are anything over 12" diameter inside bark on the small end of the log.  Pulp goes down to 4".  Sawlogs are generally graded, and the more clear wood, the better the value.  Most of the value of the tree will be in first 16'.

For scaling purposes, trees are scaled with the number of 16' logs that are there.  You can also use a ½ log.  Pulp generally gets counted by the number of bolts.  A bolt can be 4' or 5'. 

When you get to metrics, things would probably change as to sawlog length or bolt length.  It all comes out okay when you check your charts to get a total.  Your scaling should yield the volume in sawlogs and the volume in pulp. 

[Tdawg]

Depending on your area, sawlogs generally are anything over 12" diameter inside bark on the small end of the log.  Pulp goes down to 4".  Sawlogs are generally graded, and the more clear wood, the better the value.  Most of the value of the tree will be in first 16'.

For scaling purposes, trees are scaled with the number of 16' logs that are there.  You can also use a ½ log.  Pulp generally gets counted by the number of bolts.  A bolt can be 4' or 5'. 

When you get to metrics, things would probably change as to sawlog length or bolt length.  It all comes out okay when you check your charts to get a total.  Your scaling should yield the volume in sawlogs and the volume in pulp.

Thanks Ron, its starting to make some sense to me now. Except the metric part, a lot of us up here (of a certain age ) still can't figure most of it out.

[John Mc]

Well to put it in the simplest terms :
1. Determine what you can expect to get for the delivered logs. (get quotes from mills etc.)
2. Determine what it will cost you to cut, skid, load, and haul the logs to the mill.
3. Determine what you need for profit, overhead, mobilization and move out costs .

You forgot step 4, where you subtract off the profit, and maybe some of the overhead, because the market went down the tubes since you bid the job...