Ton Of Hardwood Logs

Prices shown are based on per ton stumpage price.

Ton of hardwood logs.

Approximate weight conversion for hardwood pulpwood from cord measure to weight measure thousand board feet of hardwood sawtimber to pounds and tons. Also if you are buying by the ton crooked logs will yield less. 1 cunit 2 8317 m3. For the purposes of firewood hardwoods are most commonly oak ash elm beech birch sycamore aspen cherry and alder.

Prices are based on an average calculated from a sample of timber buyers across the u s and only intended to provide an estimate of trends and current prices. These scale images show a 1 cubic metre pile of loose logs the same quantity of logs neatly stacked taking up 2 3 cubic metre and a builder s bag of loose logs containing 0 7 cubic metre of loose logs. Southeastern average stumpage prices us ton. 22 74 24 56 1 82 29 41 6 67 mixed hardwood sawtimber.

Cord or hardwood pulpwood to pounds and tons. Historically hardwood pulpwood volume to weight conversion was established at 2 7 tons per cord for soft hardwood species 2 8 tons per cord for mixed hardwood species and 2 9 tons per cord for hard hardwood species ms code 75 27 39. At present the average price for pulp wood is hovering around 25 00 per ton the average price of pine saw logs is around 30 00 per ton and the average price for hardwood saw logs is around 35 00 per ton. The tms market news bulletin 2q2020.

Scragg mill operators have told me mixed hardwood small logs take about 6 7 tons for a thousand board foot. For convenience mills commonly settle on a fixed conversion factor when procuring logs for example from 8 9 tons mbf for hardwood and from 7 8 tons mbf for pine. 1mfbm 5 1282 m3. This is the mill price for those woods if you own land with timber and sell the.

Also called dumpy bags or bulk bags the most common size can hold about 0 7 cubic metres of logs which being less dense than sand or gravel will weigh considerably less than a ton. Hardwood logs come from broadleaf woodland. Of imperial units x conversion factor metric units conversion factor imperial units. 2q20 2q19 up dn 2q10 up dn pine sawtimber.

1 cord 2 4070 m3. Hardwood logs or softwood logs. 30 65 30 82 0 17 23 43 7 22 source. As the log size diameter goes up your percentage of waste slabs goes down.

However as tables 2 3 and 5 illustrate using a fixed conversion factor requires making an accurate assumption about average log or tree diameter. 1 cord 128 ft3 x 4 x 4 x 8 85 ft3 solid wood 15ft3 air and 28ft3 of bark 1 tonne 1000 kilograms 1 1023 tons. Of course there are many more hardwood species.