Selling Timber in Crisp County, GA
Quick answer
There are 8 timber businesses listed for Crisp County, Georgia: 1 consulting forester and 7 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 8 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Timber prices for Crisp County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Georgia's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Crisp County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Pine sawtimber | $22–$28 per ton |
| Pine chip-n-saw | $17–$23.5 per ton |
| Pine pulpwood | $6–$9.5 per ton |
| Mixed hardwood sawtimber | $26–$32 per ton |
| Hardwood pulpwood | $6–$8 per ton |
Source: University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025. All Georgia timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Crisp County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.
Consulting Foresters in Crisp County (1)
This forester has an office right here in Crisp County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
J.B. Faircloth & Associates, PC is a land surveying firm in Cordele, Georgia, and it also does timber work. The firm started in Cordele in July of 1979. J.B. Faircloth is both a Registered Land Surveyor and a Registered Forester, and the business is listed as a forestry consultant. On the timber side, the firm offers farm and timberland surveys along with timber cruises and sales. Two Georgia Registered Land Surveyors are on staff, J.B. Faircloth and Jason Faircloth, and the firm says they have 70 years of combined experience between them. Field work is done with Topcon total stations and GPS linked to the eGPS High Accuracy Reference Network, and drawings are produced in AutoCAD. The firm says its clients include timber companies, municipalities, GA DNR Real Estate, and private landowners. The service area covers Crisp County and Cordele, Sumter County and Americus, Dooly County and Vienna, and Wilcox, Lee, Houston, Turner and Worth counties. The firm describes this as a list that is not limited to those places. Landowners can call J.B. Faircloth or Jason Faircloth and "talk directly to the RLS handling your project." This business suits a landowner in one of those counties who wants a surveyor and a registered forester under one name, and who wants to speak with the person doing the work. From fairclothlandsurvey.com, read 17 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Crisp County (7)
These 7 are based in Crisp County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Baker Logging LLC is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Cordele, Crisp County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.
Clary Logging Co is a logging contractor in Cordele, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Griffin Lumber Company is a family business in Cordele, Georgia, that has supplied building materials since 1898. It started as Cordele Sash, Door and Lumber Company and has operated continuously since then. The company calls itself a "locally-owned family business" and has eight retail locations in Cordele, Leesburg, Tifton, Griffin, Forsyth, Milledgeville, Warner Robins and St. Marys. Its Cordele store is at 407 8th Avenue Connector, and the phone there is 229.273.2711. The business began as a window, sash and door craft shop with a big band sawmill behind its store on 8th Avenue. The sawmill burned in 1958 and was rebuilt on Highway 41, just south of the Cordele Farmers' Market. Today the company's work is building materials: lumber, windows, doors and millwork, flooring, kitchen and bath products, paint and hardware. It also runs two truss plants, in Cordele and St. Marys, and a wood treating plant in Cordele that was finished in 2025. Yellow pine is the species on record for the company, and Crisp County is the area it serves. It suits a Crisp County owner who wants a long-established local supply firm close to home, with yellow pine in its background. From griffinlumberandhardware.com, read 17 October 2026.
McKee Timber, Inc. is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Cordele, Crisp County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.
Peach State Timber Co is a logging contractor in Cordele, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Stella-Jones is listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Wood-Using Industries directory as a pole facility in Crisp County, taking yellow pine. The Commission publishes the directory; it does not rate or endorse the facilities in it.
West Fraser Inc. - Cordele OSB is listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Wood-Using Industries directory as a osb facility in Crisp County, taking yellow pine. The Commission publishes the directory; it does not rate or endorse the facilities in it.
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Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Crisp County?
8 businesses are listed for Crisp County: 1 consulting forester and 7 buyers, loggers and mills. 8 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Crisp County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. University of Georgia Extension publishes an annual timber situation and outlook report with recent quarterly figures, which tells you what the market is doing, not what your tract holds. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Crisp County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in Georgia?
Georgia has no statewide permit for cutting timber on your own land, and state law forbids a county to require one or to charge a fee for a timber harvest notification. What a county may require is the notification itself: where its ordinance calls for one, the harvester files it before entering the property if possible and no later than 24 hours after entering, and the county may ask for a bond of up to $5,000 against damage to its roads. Not every county has an ordinance, so check with yours before work starts. Georgia's Best Management Practices are not a permit programme, but following them is how a harvest stays clear of the water-quality law that is enforceable.
Permit rules in Georgia →What is timber worth in Crisp County?
No price series is published for Crisp County on its own. Georgia's latest published stumpage figures (University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025) put mixed hardwood sawtimber at $26–$32 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.