Help with log ID, please.

[stavebuyer]

It's worth exactly how much someone else is willing to pay. In this case $0, and if it has to be moved its worth $0-loading and hauling.

In this case I would offer something to pay him for his time and trouble and pick it up if I wanted something different to experiment with and let him know as much.

[doc henderson]

I could be wrong, as we are getting this through your explanation of what has been said, but it sounds like he wants you to think you are competing for the log.  It does not sound like you are.  If the veneer guy does not want it, and you do not want it... what is he going to do with it.  give him a few bucks and he may keep logs coming that he cannot get rid of.  pay a pretty price and he will expect the same in the future.  
I found a log on craigs list 8 years ago.  It was the proverbial very valuable walnut log.  It was a tree guy, wanting a bunch of money but the buyer had to pick it up.  It was still in the customer's back yard.  It was in the city of Wichita in a residential area.  He wanted I think a thousand dollars for a "veneer" log.  We spoke on the phone, and he was holding to his price.  I said Well keep my number and call me if you change your mind.  I got the call, and he needed it gone the next day.  I was able to and took my son.  we hooked up the gooseneck and loaded the track loader with a grapple.  30 to 45 minutes.  Drive to Wichita 60 minutes.  pull down the street with cars parked on both sides.  I had offered him 100 bucks.  turns out he had a car trailer he was loading limbs on by hand.  The log in the back yard was straight and about 14 feet long.  the drive to the back was 8 feet wide with a gate.  about 12 feet between the houses.  the yard was full of all the limbs.  there were actually 3 logs.  I had to unload and put the loader in the back yard.  Jack knife and work my trailer back the long narrow drive to load the log from the side, as it was too long to carry down the drive sideway.  I then offered to pick up all the piles of branches and load it on the trailer.  I showed him how to put a chain on the trailer.  I cleaned up the whole mess.  he gave me the other two lesser logs.  sweep and not as big.  I gave him another 20 bucks each and a total of 140 buck for the three logs.  I was there for several hours.  the homeowner was uber religious and brought out a booklet from his church and wanted to quiz me on my Christianity.  I pulled out of the drive, again making a 16-point turn.  loaded the 277C.  secured the load and back home to unload.  so spent fuel, time & patience, 140 bucks for 3 logs.  It turned out to be a great log.  prob. was veneer quality, but no other buyers.  I saved him hours of work and multiple trips to the land fill.  He had no way to lift the log and would have cut it up into firewood logs.  I compacted all the limbs to one load, and he could pull them off in mass.  a tangle of limbs takes longer to unload than to load.  We both got a deal.  If my time and equipment is worth 100 bucks an hour, he got his thousand bucks worth.  Or you can offer milling, or to split the lumber with the logger if he is so inclined.  Ok so add another 10 minutes to the tally of time I spent on that very valuable walnut log.