Healty Forest Sold to the Highest Bidder

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Can anybody help me with the conversion from Tons to Board feet? My guess is $25/ton is a $1000 per Logging Truck Load. Am I close?

Hey Paul, what are you paying for framing lumber these days??? And is that Canada or US lumber?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Trees downed in fire season sold to highest bidders
By MICHAEL JAMISON
The Missoulian

KALISPELL – When firefighters took to the woods last summer, they were joined by loggers, who helped in the effort by cutting down trees to create fire lines and to remove hazardous trees that might fall across roads.


On Monday, the Forest Service sold another batch of that downed timber, 3,426 tons of trees dropped during work on the Robert fire.


It was the Flathead National Forest’s fifth sale of timber cut during the fire season and went to Northend Timber, located west of Whitefish. The company bid $32.81 per ton for the timber.


The Flathead’s first sale of wildfire-related timber was made Oct. 28, with Seeley Lake’s Pyramid Lumber bidding $28.78 a ton for 3,349 tons of trees downed on the Crazy Horse fire. Work on that sale is already complete.


The Ball Creek fire, located on the western shore of Hungry Horse Reservoir, produced some 581 tons of timber, bought on Oct. 30 by Columbia Falls-based Stoltze Lumber Co. for $25.55 per ton. Work is in progress there.


Timber giant Plum Creek Timber Co. outbid the competition for logs cut during efforts to contain the Wedge fire, taking in 4,968 tons at $30.60 per ton. The fire burned just south of the Canadian border, on both sides of the Glacier National Park border.


And two days before Thanksgiving, Plum Creek bought another 4,104 tons for $19.49 a ton, clearing up trees cut along the reservoir during the Blackfoot fire.


Forest officials expect work will begin soon on hauling logs to the mill from the Wedge, Robert and Blackfoot sales. Additional trees will be sold from the Blackfoot and Robert fire areas by spring.


The trees, forest officials said, are easy to harvest, as most were cut alongside roads and remain neatly stacked not far from the roadways.


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EG,
I have not a clue bout the ton factor.
It must be a salvage term. As you know true timber sales are always based on $X/mboard ft.
As long as you are inquiring our current selling levels are: MERRITT BROTHERS LUMBER



Phone 208-683-3321 Fax 208-683-3328 12/08/2003 01:23:52 PM

Inland Red Cedar Rgh Grn Std&Btr 1.68 x 3.7
1 Ready 1 T/L 96" PET & Waxed $ 525

2X4 STUD DF&L

2 22-Dec 1 C/L 92 1/4" $ 332
3 22-Dec 92 5/8" $ 332
4 Ready 15,552' 96" $ 342
5 22-Dec 1 C/L 104 1/4" $ 350
6 22-Dec 104 5/8" $ 350

2X6 STUD DF&L
8 22-Dec 46,000' 92 1/4" Sold $ 353
9 22-Dec 92 5/8" Sold $ 353
10 Ready 3,456' 96" $ 363
11 22-Dec 1 C/L 104 1/4" $ 360
12 22-Dec 104 5/8" $ 360

#2 GREEN S4S DF&L #1 + 35/m
15 15-Dec 1 C/L 92 1/4" 2X4 #2 $ 312
16 15-Dec 1 C/L 104 1/4" 2X4 #2 $ 335
17 15-Dec 46,000' 92 1/4" 2X6 #2 Sold $ 330
18 22-Dec 1 C/L 104 1/4" 2X6 #2 $ 340

2X4 STUD ESLP-AF
23 22-Dec 1 C/L 92 5/8" $ 278
24 Ready 29,376' 96" Sold $ 288
25 22-Dec 1 C/L 104 5/8" $ 319

2X6 STUD ESLP-AF
28 22-Dec 1 C/L 92 5/8" $ 293
29 Ready 22,464' 96" $ 303
30 22-Dec 40,000' 104 5/8" Sold $ 324

2x4 STUD HEM FIR
40 29-Dec 1 C/L 92 5/8" $ 271
42 29-Dec 1 C/L 104 5/8" $ 316

2x6 STUD HEM FIR
43 29-Dec 1 C/L 92 5/8" $ 273
44 Ready 5,120' 96" $ 285
45 29-Dec 1 C/L 104 5/8" $ 330

FINGER JOINTED STUDS
47 Ready 1 C/L 2x3 - STUD 120" M/S PW $ 230
48 22-Dec 1 C/L 2x4 - ESLP-AF $ 320
49 22-Dec 1 C/L 2x4 - Hem Fir $ 320
50 15-Dec 1 C/L 2x4 - W/W Sold $ 310
51 5-Jan 1 C/L 2x4 - DF&L $ 345
52 29-Dec 1 C/L 2x6 - ESLP-AF OR HF $ 300
53 Ready 1 T/L 2x6 - 116 5/8" $ 290
54 22-Dec 1 C/L 2x6 - DF&L $ 305

1x4 4&Btr KD
56 Ready 40,000' 96" Hem Fir end waxed $ 245
57 Ready 36,000' 96" DF&L end waxed $ 235

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Wally,

I was kinda expecting a Board Foot sale report, and the Ton Report was not expected. I guess if you know the specie, then the Ton is a good way to go, for both seller and buyer.

The $25-30/ton seemed kinda low, but at $350/1000bf, maybe not. Thanks for the pricing report.
 
Gunner, it all depends on the species of tree and the part of the country they come from...
Most generally the reason tons are given is because the wood is to small to really scale well and would take forever, or it is just junk wood any way...Example...Cottonwood in the Seattle area is far heavier than that out here in Mt. If the wood has big wow's in it they just throw it in the chip and saw pile to be turned into pulp, or OSB. Same goes for a lot of the little lodge poles out here, if they go to the mile they get turned into one of the above or some thing simuler. I don't know if this answered your question.
Tonage means you don't get as much, but you don't measure any thing and it just goes to the mill as is, scale gets more attention becase it is worth the time...
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