Selling Timber in Lancaster County, PA
Quick answer
There are 13 timber businesses listed for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: 3 consulting foresters and 10 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 13 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 Lancaster County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Pennsylvania's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Lancaster County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Red oak | $456–$609 per thousand board feet |
| White oak | $677–$750 per thousand board feet |
| Black cherry | $255–$848 per thousand board feet |
| Hard maple | $356–$500 per thousand board feet |
| White pine | $49–$287 per thousand board feet |
| Hemlock | $24–$86 per thousand board feet |
Source: Penn State Extension, Q1 2026. All Pennsylvania timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County (3)
These 3 foresters have offices right here in Lancaster County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Beiler's Sawmill is an Amish-owned sawmill and timber buying business in Quarryville, Pennsylvania. They buy standing timber and logs, run their own mill, and also offer forestry services, including timber management, logging, vegetation management, and horse/mule logging. They buy hardwood species: walnut, white oak, red oak, poplar, ash, maple and cherry. Their buying process starts with a call, then a visit from their forestry team to survey your trees, followed by an offer. If you accept, their crew handles the cutting and hauling, and you get paid once it's done. They say "We Buy Standing Timber and Logs" and are "currently paying a premium for white oak and walnut" if you're within 100 miles of Lancaster County. They serve Lancaster County and reach into Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey as well. They've been in business over 40 years. They mostly want larger timber sales, 50 or more trees, though they'll look at smaller amounts of walnut or white oak if the trees are good ones. The smallest job they mention on their own pages is thinning and timber work at Innabah Camp and Retreat Center, which they describe as a "medium-to-large scale timber harvest project." This fits a landowner in or near Lancaster County with a real stand of hardwood, especially walnut or white oak, who wants one buyer to assess, cut, and haul the timber and pay out when it's done. From beilersawmill.com, read 5 October 2026.
Scalpy Hollow Timber is a timber buyer in Drumore, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a consulting forester. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Stoltzfus Forest Products is a timber-buying business and sawmill in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania. They buy standing timber and process it at their Lancaster County sawmill, and they also handle the logging and forest management work that goes with a sale. They buy Black Walnut, Red Oak, Hickory, Cherry, Yellow Poplar, Red Maple, and White Oak. Their process starts with a phone call, then a meeting to walk through the harvest plan, which they say balances top prices with the long-term health of your woods. Their own crews mark and cut the trees, haul the logs to their mill, and turn lower-grade logs and trimmings into mulch and firewood. They say "we pay in full before one tree is cut." Their forester holds a Maryland forester registration and belongs to the Society of American Foresters. They work in Lancaster County and other counties nearby, including York, Chester, Dauphin, Lebanon, Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, Philadelphia, and Berks in Pennsylvania, plus several counties in Maryland. The business was founded in 1990 in Peach Bottom by Samuel Stoltzfus, a dairy farmer who turned his interest in sawmills into a side business, so they've been at this a long time. They say they can work with landowners who have at least 50 trees to harvest, rather than setting a minimum by acreage. That makes them a fit for someone with a smaller stand who isn't sure if their acreage alone would qualify, as long as the tree count and species line up with what Stoltzfus buys. From stoltzfusforestproducts.net, read 5 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Lancaster County (10)
These 10 are based in Lancaster County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Belmont Hardwoods is a sawmill in Paradise, Pennsylvania. They run a band saw mill and a Lucas slabbing mill, both portable, so they can come mill logs right on your property. They also have an on-location dehumidifying dry kiln and a molder that can plane lumber four sides and cut tongue and groove flooring up to 12 inches wide. They work with logs up to 36 inches across and 21 feet long on the band saw, and up to 54 inches wide and 20 feet long on the Lucas mill, so this covers a lot of what a landowner might have standing or already down. Species they handle include maple, cherry, walnut, poplar, oak, sassafras, catalpa, and hickory. They describe themselves as "a one-stop sawmill operation for those who value attentive service and appreciate the skilled handling of customized projects and unique needs." They serve customers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, and TimberClear has them listed as serving Lancaster County. Besides sawing, they turn out live edge slabs, furniture-grade hardwood, custom live edge tables, coffee tables, and bar tops, along with kiln shavings for animal bedding and firewood logs. They can also re-saw barn wood beams into flooring. This fits a landowner who already has logs, whether from their own land or reclaimed, and wants them custom sawn, dried, and planed into something usable, rather than someone just looking to sell standing timber outright. From reallancastercounty.com, read 5 October 2026.
Ben Shirk Sawmill is a mill in East Earl, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Guy Sexton Logging is a logging contractor in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Keenan Slab Works, Sawmill and Vacuum Kiln is a mill in Manheim, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
MMB Portable Sawmill, also known as MMB Custom Sawing, works out of Lititz, Pennsylvania, and serves Lancaster County. They call themselves a "Professional Portable Sawmill Service," and the setup is simple: the crew will drive the mill out to your place and saw right there, or they'll pick up your logs and bring them back to their own facility to cut. They work in oak, ash, maple, cherry, walnut, and sycamore, and can saw boards in any dimension up to 21 feet long and 38 inches in diameter. That covers quarter-sawn timber, live-edge boards, and standard lumber dimensions for cabinet making, framing, cladding, flooring, and fencing. Once the lumber is cut, they'll help with off-stacking it, and they can bring a forklift along for material handling so you're not doing that part by hand. Pricing is worked out job by job over the phone rather than posted ahead of time, so a call gets you a number specific to your logs. This is a fit for a landowner who already has logs on the ground, or standing trees they plan to drop themselves, and wants them turned into usable boards rather than sold off as standing timber. From mmbportablesawmill.com, read 5 October 2026.
Noah Shirk Sawmill is a mill in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Riverside Wood Processing LLC is a mill in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Ridge Sawmill is a family-owned sawmill in Holtwood, Pennsylvania. They cut custom lumber, buy standing timber, and also sell firewood, fence boards, and trailer bed lumber, working with homeowners, contractors, farmers, and businesses. If you've got timber to sell, their team looks at species, quality, accessibility, and market demand, and says they provide "fair pricing and professional service from start to finish." They buy hardwood species including white oak, red oak, poplar, hickory, ash, maple, beech, birch, gum, and walnut, plus hemlock softwood. On the milling side they cut custom thicknesses, widths, and lengths from 6 feet to 18 feet, turning out timbers, beams, posts, and boards, and say "no order is too small or too large." They serve Lancaster, Chester, York, Harford, Cecil, and Baltimore counties, along with Southern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland more broadly. They mention working with private landowners, estate executors, developers, investment property owners, and hunting property owners when it comes to standing timber, and offer a property evaluation where they discuss your goals and inspect the timber before making recommendations. This fits a landowner in Lancaster County or nearby who wants a local, family-run outfit that handles both the timber sale and the milling side, whether that's a few boards for a project or a standing timber harvest. From timberidgesawmill.com, read 5 October 2026.
Whiteoak Sawmill is a mill in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Zooks sawmill is a mill in Kinzers, Pennsylvania. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Lancaster County?
13 businesses are listed for Lancaster County: 3 consulting foresters and 10 buyers, loggers and mills. 13 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Lancaster 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. 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 Lancaster 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? →What is timber worth in Lancaster County?
No price series is published for Lancaster County on its own. Pennsylvania's latest published stumpage figures (Penn State Extension, Q1 2026) put black cherry at $255–$848 per thousand board feet. 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.
Forester listings for Lancaster County come from the county register, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.