What’s My Timber Worth?

On this page you will find information and resources to assist in marketing your native forest resource.

There are a broad range of products and accessible markets for your timber.

It is worth investigating the value of your product and scoping the range of available goods.

Potential timber products on your property include:-

Sawmill

House framing
Bearers
Joists and beams
Trusses
Rafters
Tongue & groove and shot edge flooring weather boards
Chamfer boards
Panelling
Finish timbers
Fence palings
Pallet timber

Round Timbers

Poles (Australian standard)
Piles
Girders
Treated round timber
Round and split posts
Marine piles
House stumps
Property poles
Landscaping timbers
Hollow logs

Other Products

Bark, chip and sawdust
Seed
Eucalypt leaves
Charcoal
Firewood
Biofuel
Wood for turning
Paper bark
Honey, beehive sites
Termite bed
Black wattle–boomerang blanks
Supple-jack and lignotuber-walking sticks
Foliage/flowers, bush tucker

Marketing Guides

PFSQ Native Forest Stand Products and Marketing Guide

This guide provides information on the range of timber products that may be available from your native forests and the options you have to sell them.

Hardwood Sawlog Classification Guidelines

The purpose of these guidelines is to outline the specifications that a log must meet in order to be regarded as a compulsory sawlog, and provide procedures to assist accredited cutters and landholders in classifying and presenting different types of sawlogs.

Marketing Articles

Private Native Forest Productivity

Is it the key to the Future of Queensland’s Timber Industry?

Private native forest production is low cost with a broad range of environmental outcomes. It has a low risk of outright failure due to its uneven age status, broad species and size class mix and widespread distribution. At present it has productivity problems due to poor management over a prolonged period. This has been aggravated by a processing industry largely disconnected from and apathetic to good forest management principles.

Marketing: Ensuring a Return

The forest product marketing process needs to identify and anticipate customer needs in an efficient and profitable way throughout the forest management cycle. Profitability takes into account all costs – Including the costs that are incurred after harvest and sales, due to the consequences of a poorly managed process.

Spotted Gum Production

How much Spooted Gum can a Queensland private native forest produce? A galloping guess based on real data.

This is research done by Bill Schulke, previously in research with the Qld DPI and now involved with PFSQ and other NRM organisations. Here he explores the spotted gum resource in Qld.

Timber Stand Improvement

An Austrlian Timber Editorial

“The fundamental rule of productive native forest management is to always leave a forest in a condition that allows it to regenerate and improve its productivity over time”

On Farm Value Adding

A Cost Comparative Study

The better the returns from the sustainable management of our native forests, the more forests will be retained as a viable alternative to other agricultural pursuits that require the clearing of the forests, ie, a better environmental outcome. The simplest, and in the end, most effective value-adding is to ensure that the timber stand is in a healthy, vigorous state with optimum stocking and few defective trees.

Techniques to Restore Productivity

Investing techniques to improve producivity in a ‘High Grade” Dry Eucalypt Forest SEQ.

Management involving private native forests in Queensland varies widely, with ‘High Grading’ being the most common form practiced ie. harvesting all merchantable stems to a tree diameter limit, usually 35cm. ‘High Grading’ harvests, particularly badly managed ones, leave a stand in a very unproductive state. The residual stand usually comprises a high percentage of defective or suppressed stems that in turn inhibit and suppress the regeneration that may follow. These forests can be brought back into high productivity with selective treatments using high retention standards and optimum spacing regimes for little economic outlay.

Private Forestry Service Queensland

8 Fraser Rd, Gympie QLD 4570

Phone: (07) 5483 6535

Email: admin@pfsq.org.au

Open weekdays: 9am - 5pm

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