Logger/Land Owner $ Split..What's normal

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So I am looking at having 40 acres of land logged. Some good saw logs and lots of firewood. Had some other land logged in the same area (but not the same land) 15 years ago and did a 50/50 split with the logger. Current logger wants to pay me $15 per cord for firewood and 1/3 of saw log proceeds. What's a normal range on revenue split for logger/land owner?

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50/50 is great on sawlogs for both parties. fire wood i wouldn't give you 15 but i'm betting he can sell it for more there than i could here. 1/3 seems cheap for the saw unless its really marginal.
 
1/3 is robbery especially on 40 acres, unless the timber is crap, then yeah... its ok

assuming that the ground is fairly hard and the timber is good, 50/50 would be my start, and I've seen guys go so far as to give 60%

Lately I've been doing a 10-20% on cottonwood, and 40-50% on better timber, owner gets more the better the timber is, also depends on how many loads I can get out of it. But with 40 acres, thats a lot of wood.
 
30 (landowner)/60 all the way to 60 (landowner)/40 around here. timber, access, ground, acreage, skid distance, and distance to mill will all play a roll in the split. personally im not real sure how to determine the split since i was never involved in that end of my step dads logging.
 
50% of what? Be careful. 90% of the gross is often in made in the veneer.
Also the rougher the ground, the better the timber.
Lots of variables here to consider.
 
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