Pike Lumber Company, Inc.
About Pike Lumber Company, Inc.
Pike Lumber Company, Inc. is a forestry firm based in Carbon, Indiana, with offices in Akron, Auburn, Carbon and Milan. Its Timber department works with private forest landowners, and its procurement foresters serve Indiana, Eastern Illinois, Southern Michigan and Western Ohio. The company has operated since 1904 and has won the NHLA National Forest Stewardship Award. More than 20 college trained foresters are on staff. The foresters can create and carry out a forest management plan built around the owner's own goals for the land. They also mark timber for harvest, recommend Timber Stand Improvement work, and offer a free consultation and inspection. The logging crews use Best Management Practices meant to protect water quality in forest streams. Pike also provides "ready markets for your timber," and it manufactures hardwood lumber under the Pike Brand name. The firm works with White Oak, Walnut, Cherry, Poplar, Ash, Basswood, Hickory, Hard Maple, Soft Maple, Red Oak and Sassafras. Pike Lumber Company, Inc. suits a landowner with hardwood stands who wants one firm to plan the woods, mark the trees, and handle the cutting and the sale. From pikelumber.com, read 8 October 2026.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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