What is your log worth?
Photograph it. In about a minute you get species, board feet, sawlog grade, and an honest value band — never a fake precise price. If it’s worth selling, we run the sale.
No account needed. No auction is open yet — the first sales are broker-run while the buyer side is seeded. Nothing here implies a market that doesn’t exist.
Three steps, and the second one is honest
The same discipline timber.bid uses for trees: measure, don’t guess. The number comes first; the sale only happens if the number says it should.
Photograph the log
End grain, full length, and anything wrong with it. Something for scale — a tape, a boot, a chainsaw — makes the read sharper. Or type what you measured and skip the photo.
Get the real number
Species, small-end diameter, length, defects — you confirm every reading before a band appears. Board feet by Doyle or International rule, then a value range, never false precision.
Sell it sealed — if it’s worth it
Post the lot. Mills and buyers bid blind, highest at close wins, the full bid sheet goes public after, and the money settles on timber.bid’s escrow rails.
Value lives in the exceptional log, not the average one
The estimator grades on the tiers mills actually pay by. Most of the time the honest answer is firewood — and it says so.
Worth checking from about 16″ diameter. Clean, straight, forest-grown trunks in these species are what the sealed sale is for.
Real sawlog value on big, clean stems — from roughly 20″. Ash matters right now: borer-killed trees are a salvage wave, and ash still sells.
Utility prices. At yard-tree quality the handling costs more than the log brings. The tool will tell you that plainly.
The walnut myth, said early. Most yard trees are worth nothing as sawlogs: removal costs swamp the log value, loggers won’t work near structures, and one embedded nail ruins a mill blade — which is why every lot here carries a metal disclosure.
The rare real log deserves a real sale. The estimator exists to tell the two apart.
Two ways to sell, and one of them is open right now
Milled wood, at your price
Slabs, burls, beams — or a lift of graded lumber sold by the board foot. A photo and a price is the whole listing. The photos fill in species, figure, defects and size and you check them, so a piece takes about a minute. Free to list, 2.5% only when it sells, and the buyer’s payment is held until they have the wood.
Standing timber and sawlogs, by sealed bid
Standing timber and sawlogs have sold by sealed bid for decades because it protects the seller on a large, lumpy, one-time sale. We run that format on rails that already move money for tree services and firewood.
- Free to post. A 2.5% seller fee, only when a lot actually sells. Nothing for listing, nothing for a lot that doesn’t move.
- Buyers bid blind. A reserve can exist; its number is never shown.
- Highest bid at close wins. Then the full bid sheet goes public — every offer, visible.
- Settlement on timber.bid’s escrow engine. A won lot is a funded deal, not a handshake.
Logs to sell, a mill to feed, land with timber on it?
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