One of my administrator's father had a 400 yard swath of timber flattened. figures about 100,000 dollar loss. A log buy is coming by, but I am assuming between the splits and twists of the logs, there won't be much marketable stuff. Considering the challenges of getting good logs out would affect value too.
Depending on land use and designation, if a natural disaster is declared in your area you may be able to make a claim and receive a cash payment or interest free loan to assist with cleanup.
Had a small one f1 go through my woodlot 12 years ago. The number of widow-makers was scary. I hired a Logging Company to coming and fix it. They made a lot of firewood, and it didn't cost me anything for the feller buncher to come in. I'm glad the damage is only property and not people.
That's what I was thinking, alot of stress cracks and weird random lengths would probably be hard to sell.
Pulpwood is about the only thing they will buy it for. We have had that happen several times down here in GA. Hard to find a logger to even do it sometimes.
Tornadoes are so frightening. They come with all that wind, rain and the load train sounds. We had an ice storm in Jan of '98. Went a few weeks without power. All the trees around us were heavily damaged or destroyed altogether. I had to get someone in here to help take care of the mess. Lots of fuel for the wood burners for years to come. It was amazing to see the trees come back. The ones that lost all their smaller branches (arm size) came back with a huge canopy of growth. Others like white berch struggled for a few years, then gave up the battle. My fruit trees were beyond hope. So grateful you and your family were not harmed, and that your home can be repaired.
I would put my efforts into getting the totally down stuff cleaned up first in log form and stacking it. I would be afraid to allow any one to come on the place were it mine to cut and clean up. Sorry to say in todays sue happy world some fellow you have chatted with on a forum or in a chat room may just use you to make a quick dollar killing in court. After all you know how those twisted splintered trees can suprize you. Nope only help I would allow is once I got them all piled into a safe stack some place and was ready to cut into fire wood. Yes we, every once in a while get a Tornado here in Michigan isn't like other parts of the country. it is the aluminum of trailer parks that seem to draw them here too. Al
Why is it the owner of the trailer is always wearing a "wolf shirt" when they are interviewed on the news?
I remember that storm savemoney We got a small amount of ice in Southern CT but you guys got slammed. Any before and after pics? Im curious to see how nature rejuvenated. Theres an section of I-84 through Sturbridge, Mass where the June 2011 tornado crossed the highway. The trees are slowly coming back.
Ive got a wild tornader story my self. An EF3 nearly wiped out my home town November 17 2013, i was in my Grandma's garage for the whole thing. The first houses hit in town were directly behind our property! It was on the ground for nearly 30 miles.
We get hit with tornadoes and hurricanes occasionally here in GA. Bunch of trailer parks here as well.
It's going alright as far as I know, I actually live in Plainfield so I'm about an hour away from the property down there. I was going to go down tomorrow and do some cutting but the unending rain this year is keeping me from doing much of anything productive outside. I can't wait until this weather pattern is over and things dry out a bit.
It looks like the weather pattern is about to change for the better. I hope so for all our sakes. I planted some clover yesterday. Figured with rain coming every third day or so it would be a good time to plant and hopefully it will come up before any heavy downpours come. That sometimes happens in July.
