Patterson Specialty Hardwoods, Inc.

About Patterson Specialty Hardwoods, Inc.

Patterson Specialty Hardwoods, Inc. is a hardwood log buyer and merchant in Spencer, Indiana. They are "a hardwood lumber merchant specializing in veneer and saw logs for domestic and export manufacturing," working with Walnut, White Oak, Hard Maple, Cherry, Hickory, Sassafras, Red Oak, Black Oak, and Poplar. They buy logs two ways: "gate logs" delivered to their Spencer yard, or by sending a buyer out to inspect larger parcels at logging landings and other yards within 175 miles of that yard. Logs are scaled by the Doyle Rule, must be solid, sound, and straight, free of metal, and meet a minimum small-end diameter of 12 inches for saw logs and 14 inches for veneer logs. Payment on gate logs delivered by Thursday noon is scaled and paid the same week; logs picked out at a landing are paid the Friday after delivery is complete. The owner, Richard (Dick) Patterson, has a forestry degree from the University of Montana and more than 30 years in the trade, and the business holds an Indiana DNR timber buyer license and FSC certification. There's no stated minimum acreage. Since they deal in logs rather than standing tracts, the practical floor is whether your logs meet those diameter and quality standards, not acreage at all. This fits a landowner in or near Owen County who already has logs cut or ready to haul, and wants a straightforward log buyer rather than someone to walk a whole property and sell standing timber. From pshwoods.com, read 8 October 2026.

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