Selling Timber in Fannin County, GA

7 businesses work this county

Quick answer

There are 7 timber businesses listed for Fannin County, Georgia: 7 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 6 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 Fannin 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 Fannin 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 Fannin 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.

Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Fannin County (6)

These 6 are based in Fannin County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.

4.3(8 reviews)
Morganton, GA

Cruse Lumber Company is listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Wood-Using Industries directory as a sawmill-hardwood & softwood facility in Fannin County, taking yellow pine, white pine, yellow-poplar, red oak. The Commission publishes the directory; it does not rate or endorse the facilities in it.

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5.0(1 reviews)
Epworth, GA

Patterson Logging is a logging contractor in Epworth, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

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4.6(8 reviews)
Morganton, GA

Robinson Stave LLC is a stave mill in Morganton, Georgia, with its Georgia mill on Loving Road. Its main work is turning white oak logs into staves for bourbon barrels, and it lists Fannin as the county it serves. Its trades are sawmill or mill work and timber buying. The business works in white oak, including Appalachian white oak. It says it will "secure renewable white oak logs from all over the southeast." Those logs become staves for 53-gallon barrels, and the inside of each barrel is charred. Because timber buying is one of its trades, a landowner with white oak to sell would be dealing with a mill that already buys logs for this kind of barrel work. The business began in 1958 as a family business run by C.B. and Imogene Robinson in a small stave mill in southeastern Kentucky. Its listed locations are Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee. This suits a landowner in Fannin County or nearby with white oak to sell who wants a buyer whose main work is making barrel staves. From robinsonstave.com, read 4 October 2026.

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4.5(19 reviews)
Blue Ridge, GA

Sisson, Dupont & Carder is a sawmill and timber products maker at 75 Appalachian Highway in Blue Ridge, Georgia. They describe themselves as a vertically integrated organization that takes lumber from standing trees to hundreds of log and timber products, so the work runs from the tree to the finished piece in one place. Eastern white pine is the species listed for them, and they serve Fannin County. Timber is their main line. They cut beams and timbers up to 32 feet long, along with round timbers from 3 to 16 inches across. "Square timbers are our specialty," their site says, and they back that with a sawmill, planers and a profiler. They also offer round cuts, log ends, dovetail work, hand hewing, and timber plates, bolts and rods, and they say they can mill to your specifications. Their name on the site reads as a log home and timber product manufacturer, so building material is their trade. This suits a landowner whose trees are headed for long square or round timbers for a building project. From sdclogandtimber.com, read 17 October 2026.

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4.8(39 reviews)
Mineral Bluff, GA
Pick-up + Delivery Available

Toccoa Lumber Mill and Building Supplies is a lumber mill and yard at 7011 Appalachian Hwy in Mineral Bluff, Georgia, in Fannin County. The business was founded in 1996 and describes itself as a fully operational lumber mill. General manager Stephen Cruse runs the operation. It stocks rough and planed white pine and yellow pine, along with framing lumber, pressure treated lumber, tongue-and-groove boards, d-log siding, chink siding, shiplap, plywood, posts and beams. It also carries building supplies such as nails, deck screws and joist hangers. The yard is open to the public Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4:30pm, and it offers pick-up and delivery. The service area is given as Northern Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and the Carolinas. The business puts its own tagline as "Built On Tradition." This suits a builder, contractor or homeowner who needs finished lumber, siding or beams and wants a local yard to buy them from. From toccoalumbermill.com, read 17 October 2026.

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Mineral Bluff, GA

Ware Logging LLC is a logging contractor in Mineral Bluff, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

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Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (1)

Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Fannin County, working from a nearby town.

McCaysville, GA

W. H. Allen Contracting is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at McCaysville, Fannin 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.

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Questions landowners ask

How many timber buyers and foresters serve Fannin County?

7 businesses are listed for Fannin County: 0 consulting foresters and 7 buyers, loggers and mills. 6 of them have offices in the county.

How much is my timber worth in Fannin 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.

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Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Fannin 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.

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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.

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What is timber worth in Fannin County?

No price series is published for Fannin 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.