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?
 
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
 
Whart types of trees is it? What's their diameter?

Location also dictates wood price.. Not just firewood price, but also to a lesser degree wood that might be better to go to a mill for lumber. I understand not wanting to put your location out for everyone, but a province and a north/south would be beneficial.. For example, souther Ontario..

If your selling firewood and got the space, you get about 30-50% more $$ if the fire wood is split small, dried and ready to burn.. Might be worth it to buy a nice splitter if you are doing 40 acres of firewood.

If you got the motivation, a chainsaw mill and a planner would make some very high end boards if you have the right trees.

City people go insane for "live edge" boards.. They pay big $$.. and a chainsaw mill can hammer out live edge boards quite quickly.

Honesty, make some live edge boards about 5 feet long and 30 inches wide out of some nice hardwood, screw some nice coat hanger hooks on it and throw on line for 200$.. You'd be shocked.
 
Cheapshot said:
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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You'll probably want to have it marked and put up for tender unless you have a longterm plan to do this past this project.

At least look into it. May be a better route if you don't have the equipment and manpower. A company will come fall the tress and take the logs (buy them) and leave you the tops. It will be good for the bush overall assuming you want to keep it.

You'll have more than enough to cut and sell for quite a while if you're a one man show and theyre good mature hardwood trees.

Know what trees you can take and what you can't. Saw a company here in ON clear a small stand of of butternut trees as part of a larger clearing and it cost them a small fortune once the MNR ( whatever they are called now) caught wind of it.
 
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