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The hardwoods we buy
Ohio and northern West Virginia grow some of the finest hardwood in the country. We buy every hardwood species, plus white pine. What you have standing, and how clean it is, decides most of what a sale is worth.
The hardwoods that carry most sales, and what moves the price of each
Black Walnut
Highest value per tree
The most valuable hardwood most Ohio landowners have. A clear, straight, large-diameter walnut can be worth more than the rest of the woodlot put together, so it is worth having one looked at before you do anything else.
White Oak
Strong, steady demand
Stave-grade white oak goes into bourbon barrels, and that demand has held white oak prices high for years. Straight, clear butt logs are what the mills want.
Red Oak
High volume
The workhorse of Ohio hardwood. Common across most woodlots here and a reliable part of nearly every sale we put together.
Hard & Soft Maple
Grade-driven
Hard maple pays well when it is clean and light-colored. Soft maple is worth less but still adds up on volume.
Black Cherry
Grade-driven
Value swings hard on clearness and diameter. Good cherry is worth real money; rough cherry is not, and we will tell you which one you have.
White Ash
Cut it before it goes
Emerald ash borer has killed most of Ohio's ash. Standing dead ash loses value fast and becomes a hazard. If you still have live ash, it is worth moving on.
Hickory
Steady
Tough, heavy and always in demand for flooring and handles. Rarely the headline of a sale, but it carries its weight.
Yellow Poplar
Volume species
Grows fast, grows straight and gets big. Worth less per board foot than oak or walnut, but the volume per tree makes up ground.
We buy mixed woodlots, not just the good trees
A working woodlot is never all walnut. It is walnut and oak and maple mixed in with poplar, beech, elm and whatever else came up. We buy the stand as it stands.
Be careful of anyone who wants only your best few trees and no interest in the rest. Taking the biggest and straightest trees and leaving everything else is called high-grading, and it leaves you with a woodlot full of poor genetics and defect that will not be worth cutting again in your lifetime.
Minimum sizes
We buy walnut from fourteen inches in diameter and every other species from sixteen, measured at four and a half feet off the ground. Veneer-grade timber rewards waiting longer than that. Mills, markets and grade all move, and a tree that is declining is worth taking regardless of size.
Not only the eight above
Those are the species that carry most sales. We buy every hardwood species, and we buy white pine. If you have something not listed here, it is not a problem.
A word about ash
Emerald ash borer has killed most of the ash in Ohio. If you still have living ash of any size, it is worth acting on: dead ash dries, checks and loses grade quickly, and standing dead timber becomes a genuine hazard to anybody working underneath it — including whoever eventually cuts it.
If ash is most of what you have, call us sooner rather than later.
Find out what your woods are worth
We will walk your property, tally what is there and tell you straight what it is worth — at no cost, and with no obligation to sell.
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