Asked Pat Hemlock 20’ are 550 a thousand board feet Canada Hemlock 12’ are 450 Pine goes to local lumber mill 20 miles Pulpwood to chip plant On avg landowner logger and trucker each get 1/3
That’s really interesting! Thank you! I can now do some math whilst driving past logging trucks when heading up 91 north! Seriously, thanks for sharing that info.
Basically cleared 2 acre of quasi flat of junk wood Poplar, pin cherry white birch it will be stumped and dozed and seeded along edges I will plant beech oak hickory and sugar maples
C'mon man, you don't want to grow more sumac there instead? Very cool thread. I like big projects like this, and it's nice to pick the trees that you want to grow there, for whatever reason.
Ya had me there for a second Good thing you bust my stones often enough to where everything is now suspect.
One of my favorite hobbies my friend. Send Ms. buZZsaw a sympathy card as after 16.5 years i still get her. The best part is when im serious and she thinks im not and finds out im not BSing! rufhipstere!
Well 16 years ago a tornado went through.. This thread started as I got wood delivered woo hoo sugar maple loggers showed up and said can we use your driveway and plans kind of changed story of my life Fire Get ready Oh yeah Aim sumac grows here on edge of fields if ya cut it 10 more grow up pull it by roots with chain is better
Today’s pics Really changing the way things look out back.. I am slow so I try to keep out of the way I was going to rent a chipper and clean 2 acres… They said no we will drag it with skidder and chip it when we chip others and leave you the chips… hell yeah and thank you
Helps being on clear sand and 5 days no rain loggers stop work in rain and give it 2 days for the trucks!
The before the after I am in front of last wood pile.. I will take tractor and save firewood some yellow birch
Pin cherry not worth the trouble? I only ask because I scored a little bit of it this past spring and plan on burning it later this fall.
I can, buddy down street was wondering if it would be good for smoking in his traeggar? Loggers told me just chip it 99% of it for speed there’s 500 feet of brush on left edge where logging roads are. They said they bring me 6 cords of real wood off the processor..
In your logging left over thread I will have half as much per acre on about 40 acres.. These loggers will chip a bunch of soft wood thrashing to send to the McNeil electrical generating plant in Burlington. Also leave main trails open and back drag with Dozer when they leave.. I take trees that die due to damage from dropping hemlock and pine. Told farmer he was getting more $$ as I had kept trails open and they didn’t need a week to re open them from brush 20 years later!! easier for them More $ for farmers I heat my house and use land with out taxes
Update; chipping is done ;the chipper they had filled a full sized tractor trailer in 3o minutes. Sorry no the ground had frozen and they were going as fast as the could. There was 15 trucks the first day.. is the land perfect? No .. they dozed what they could and it’s still sloppy with the amount of moisture under the frost… they went to the back of property line to other neighbor that’s a farmer… Crazy busy time of year.. odd thing I asked them for a favor for a friend He got 5 acres and at least 50; 100 foot hemlocks He wants gone.. I asked them look at it They did and gave him a price.. sometimes helping a friend is better than $ Maybe that’s why I’m usually broke The 2 acres behind his shop they will clear allows him to put a 1,000 sq ft home for his Vietnam vet father to be happy in. Edit to add will update pics in daylight
