Any Loggers Here? Woodlot advice

Cheapshot

Cheapshot

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Im looking to cut around 40 acres of wood on my land, mostly big hardwood. Just not sure what my best options are. I can get someone to cut it, but I would end up paying alot of tax on it. Or do I quit my job and buy an old skidder to cut it myself. Any advice would be great
 
Cheapshot said:
Im looking to cut around 40 acres of wood on my land, mostly big hardwood. Just not sure what my best options are. I can get someone to cut it, but I would end up paying alot of tax on it. Or do I quit my job and buy an old skidder to cut it myself. Any advice would be great
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If theres a logging company around, they might actually pay you to harvest it.. They'd cut it ground level and haul it off and you get paid per load.. Your land is small so it would have to be very appealing to them (species of trees, size of tree, access for machines, terrain etc)..

Dependning on the tree species and size, there could be some very valuable trees in there. Species like black walnut are very valuable.. Had a guy stop by my house one day when I live in ontario and he offered 2k for a black walnut tree. He owned a saw mill and wanted to mill it.

Where are you, what types of trees are there?
 
At the very least, you might cut it down yourself and put an add up for "free firewood".. depeding on your area, you might get it hauled off for freee at least.
 
animal-inside said:
If theres a logging company around, they might actually pay you to harvest it.. They'd cut it ground level and haul it off and you get paid per load.. Your land is small so it would have to be very appealing to them (species of trees, size of tree, access for machines, terrain etc)..

Dependning on the tree species and size, there could be some very valuable trees in there. Species like black walnut are very valuable.. Had a guy stop by my house one day when I live in ontario and he offered 2k for a black walnut tree. He owned a saw mill and wanted to mill it.

Where are you, what types of trees are there?
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Well I would hope they would pay me, Wouldn't make sense to cut it lol
 
animal-inside said:
At the very least, you might cut it down yourself and put an add up for "free firewood".. depeding on your area, you might get it hauled off for freee at least.
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Not sure if this is sarcasm? Firewood goes for like 350 a cord. Lol. Im not buying a skidder and cutting it all.down to give it away..lmao
 
If you are looking to kill some time and get some exercise then a workhorse 4 wheeler, chainsaw and fuel. Cut and buck into lengths. Are you looking to heat your house or sell? If selling more of a problem as they would like 10ft lengths since they will slice, plane and turn into things. From experience anyone who does the work makes the lion's share of the money. A buddy up north got someone to cut. He got $10k and there were many truckloads of logs coming out of his property- enough to make a few dozen sets of kitchen cupboards. If for firewood then maximum money would be to get a little splitter as well and sell it that way. 350 is a big number. If you are in southern Ontario I can see that. It's $100 a bush chord in log form up north.
 
Mfg Eng said:
If you are looking to kill some time and get some exercise then a workhorse 4 wheeler, chainsaw and fuel. Cut and buck into lengths. Are you looking to heat your house or sell? If selling more of a problem as they would like 10ft lengths since they will slice, plane and turn into things. From experience anyone who does the work makes the lion's share of the money. A buddy up north got someone to cut. He got $10k and there were many truckloads of logs coming out of his property- enough to make a few dozen sets of kitchen cupboards. If for firewood then maximum money would be to get a little splitter as well and sell it that way. 350 is a big number. If you are in southern Ontario I can see that. It's $100 a bush chord in log form up north.
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No, I wouldn't be using the wood for myself. Just to cut and sell. I guess I uave a good quad now and could pick away at it. Just dont wanna get ripped off, getting someone else to cut it and they make all the money, like you said.

350 a cord, is cut and split
 
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