Selling Trees and Timber

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

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.

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

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.

Guidelines for harvesting and selling your timber.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A sawmill consultant describes the sawmilling industry.

Selling trees in yards and urban wood lots can be complicated. How did you sell you yard tree?

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.