Logging company wants to rent "yard" space on me

A 1200 acre tract of timber borders my property. The consulting forester called to lease some pasture space for a log yard. Its the nicest part of the pasture and has a nice view, so I declined, but advised I had some ground on the outside of the fencing.

I met with the logger and told him to cut down any trees and change the contour to his needs, and leave it in a way that another land owner could use it as a yard when they begin logging. He said he will measure and buy any tree he takes down (only about two or three I think)

I also asked if they would drop a couple of dead trees for me. Good risk mitigation- let the professionals do it.

In the end, I will have an area leveled out and cleared to put a shed on for my farm equipment and better use of the ground. Plus, I told him to leave any junk logs at the yard, and I will cut them up for my boiler.

Looks like my wood cutting will be within eyesight of my boiler this Winter. I will post pics as the operation goes along. Come to think of it, it may be my new wood stacking location!

 

I have made arrangements like this myself, and it turned out well.

My neighbor was cutting his woodlot off and at the farthest point, the skidders would be twitching wood over a mile and a half. The recommended distance is only a half mile, so I went and saw the guy. If they cut across me in a 1/4 mile length, they could get to the main road. So they did, and after they were done they bulldozed the twitch road and made the yard really nice.

To this day we are still good friends.

 

It's not Etienne Timber is it??

 

cross your I's and dot your T's, I did a job at a guys house, they hauled the last tree out and hauled A$$ out of town. His little lot has a lot of damage.

 

No, it is Knepp, out of Daviess County. “Aichin” is down in Perry, I believe- where my tree farm is located. I don’t know if my father or grandfather used them. Werner did some cutting for us in Perry a few years ago.

 

It out!

 

Was gonna tell you to have Wade put you on one of his Youtube videos.

 

It sounds like this deal is working out well. A common bit of insurance is a “performance bond”, where they put some of the cleanup cost into escrow. Government jobs (parks, etc) often make this requirement of the logger. Often simply having to have the cash available seems to weed out some of the worst actors.

 

I might look into that, but these guys are return loggers for this property. Apparently they were off the best bid by 3,000 dollars, but the owner went with them again, due to a positive past experience.

 

They have begun operations. Graded the small lot, that I think they will just use as a way to get the truck and trailer turned around. The actual yard is about 80 yards down the lane. Already have a nice junk pile going. Some already cut into rounds

 

Is this part of the 'junk pile' Sour?

 

That would probably affect their profit margin if I went to cutting it.

 

Bummer!

 

Chatted with the fellows today. It’s an Amish operation. Spent a while watching the grappler machine handling logs and doing the cutoffs

I got to talking about chain saw sharpening and the owner pulled out some square files and gave me a quick lesson on sharpening with a square file on a full skip chain.

They prefer to use jonsered saws. Say they don’t vibrate like Husqvarna does.

They have about four days of cutting, then the cutoff pile is all mine!

 

I have one full skip square ground chain I usually use on bigger trees. It takes a good bit longer to sharpen, but man, that thing will cut. I put it on and sharpened it up the other day. Cut one nice round off a 25" white oak log, started on the second round, saw a few Sparks, did a little checking, found a marble size quartz rock stuck in the bark. Luckily it only chipped a few teeth...

 

I laughed aloud at that myself.

 

Must be the handle angle and the improved counterbalancing attributed to the cosmetics.