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Selling Trees and Timber

Hundreds of thousands of timber sales are made each year. These links will help you do your tree sale right and with minimum confusion.

Guide to Selling Trees in Your Yard

Selling a Yard Tree - How to Sell a Tree in Your Yard

About Making a Timber Sale

For many tree growers, timber sales are made only two or three times in their entire life. It may take twenty or thirty years growing a crop only to lose much of its value because of one or two mistakes at the time of sale.

About the Timber Sale Contract

Many owners of timber are hurt during and after their first timber sale because of a bad or no contract.

Guide to Selling Timber

Here is a step by step guide on how to sell trees, prepare for and make a timber sale and assure a smooth timber harvest.

Tree Harvesting and Making the Timber Sale

Guidelines for harvesting and selling your timber.

Sample Timber Contract

Here is a sample timber sale contract. Use only as a reference. You are encouraged to customize every timber sale contract to fit the situation.

Developing a Timber Contract

Creating a timber sale contract should give you some comfort and reduce anxiety over your next timber sale. The legal consequences resulting from cutting, purchasing and selling timber should be the major reason for developing a timber contract.

About's Glossary of Logging and Timber Harvesting Terms

A complete list of terms used by the logging and timber harvesting trade.

Stealing Trees: Three Easy Methods

How to prevent timber theft.

Measuring and Understanding Wood Volumes

Measuring wood is part science, part art; you use many different units, you face many potential problems.

Approximate Conversions of the Most Common Units of Wood Measure

I have compiled a list of common wood conversions foresters, loggers and timber owners need on occasion.

The Timber Market Explained - Part 1

A sawmill consultant explains the timber market all the way from the woods to the mill.

The Timber Market Explained - Part 2

A sawmill consultant describes the sawmilling industry.

Measure and Sell Your Trees 101

Measure and Sell Your Trees

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