Thought i was done for a while.

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HJsimpson

Burning Hunk
Apr 17, 2011
125
NE Indiana
Well so much for taking a little summer break.
The owner of the woods that i have been cutting in called this week and said he had 5 tree's dropped around his barn. He orignally asked me if i would do it but they where to cloe for my comfort level which he completely understood. He worked a deal with a local logger to drop them and sold some walnut log to them. This was supposed to happen later this fall but they got started earlier. The tree's around the barn were 3 ash,1 red elm and a nice large thornless honey locust in pic. I walked out to see the tops from the walnuts and amazed on how much they damaged removing 8 trees. Big ruts and jut flat shoved over perfectly good trees and broke tops out of others. It look like a bomb went off. This may be normal but i jut cant see why there was so much damage done but im also no logger nor do i pretend to be one. 2012-06-08_07-56-30_155.jpg2012-06-08_07-57-17_527.jpg
 

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Loggers aren't arborists. I've tried to sell some real nice SYP's off my property but can't find anyone that will select cut- not worth their time/fuel costs unless they can come in and level the whole place
 
Thats what i figured get in get out. One upside is i have alot more to cut for fire wood now.
 
My Dad sold a few big oaks from a building lot in preparation for building a house, and the whole three acres is trashed from removal of about 7 trees. I doubt the money he got for the logs (very large Red Oaks) will pay to fix the damage that was done. They were planning a home surrounded by woods but due to the ruts and root wads, they'll have to level and replant a significant portion of the lot. It is hard to replant a stable, maintenance-free woodland like the one they lost, so I bet they'll end up with lawn.
 
Loggers don't make a big chunk of change for thier hard work, so it has to be done fast to make it pay.
And some logging outfits are better than others. Big equipment makes a big mess. Many forests only allow winter cutting on frozen ground.
Wood profit is made by the mills & lumber yards.

It worked out for you to get more wood,
but lots of work to clean up the mess they left .
 
I thought I was done until fall too. Then the neighbor calls and says "I'm having two trees taken down...the tree service guys saw your woodpiles and asked if they could dump the trees right next to them....is that OK?" I said sure...as long as there is no brush or chips....nothing wrong with that deal.
 
There are some good loggers out there but the land owner has to be picky and best to oversee the project if you want select cut. There are also a lot of "slash and crash" loggers. The wood lot I am working now (well was working and will get back to it, in the fall) was a slash and crash job. That woods will not amount to anything again in my lifetime but it is giving me and my good friend that lives next to it a lot of firewood. Now a woods close by that property was select cut several years ago and will be ready for that again in a few more years. The land owner was present and made sure it was done right. He probably did not get the payout the same but I believe he is better off.
 
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