At long last I might actually make some money

[Ernie]

At long last, we who own some forests and a mill might actually make a buck or two.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/5023478/House-costs-may-rise-from-log-hike

[WDH]

I wish it were the same here but stumpage prices are still low.  Makes it frustrating to grow trees for years and get prices that were being paid 20 years ago.  But, this economic mess has been very bad for a great number of people.

[Cedarman]

WDH, you could grow cedars in Ok and then pay $75 to $100 per acre to have someone cut them and then ask us to come grind them or you could pay someone else to push them up and burn them.   We have looked at some fields we cleared 6 years ago and there is a fine crop of seedlings growing.  See, you don't even have to replant.

[pigman]

Cedarman, that sounds like a deal I would like to get into. Maybe WDH and I could be pardners in an enterprise  like that.

[sandhills]

WDH, you could grow cedars in Ok and then pay $75 to $100 per acre to have someone cut them and then ask us to come grind them or you could pay someone else to push them up and burn them.   We have looked at some fields we cleared 6 years ago and there is a fine crop of seedlings growing.  See, you don't even have to replant.

Just like this,



After renting a machine this winter to cut them I wish I could've got enough down to make it worth the while for Cedarman to come up and grind them, I would give them to him to get rid of the mess I made, but as it stands most will get piled and burnt.  The picture is ones I cut for posts and a few saw logs, I rented a tree saw and a big skidsteer later and got rid of a lot of the bigger trees but there is hundreds of thousands of little ones left for a brush saw to get.  :(

[WDH]

Wouldn't controlled burns control them?  Is it too dry and dangerous to burn?

Bob, we would make fine partners.  See, if we split the loss, it is only half bad  :D.

[tcsmpsi]

That's just plain disheartening, sandhills. 

[sandhills]

I probably shouldn't have used that picture, that was just a small bunch of cedars that were around a big old cottonwood, they're not that thick out in the open pasture and the trouble with most of them is the cattle have rubbed and mauled them down to where they won't make decent saw logs.  They usually end up with 3 or so trunks growing out of the same stump (if that makes sense), anything with one or two good logs in it will be kept for saw logs or posts, but there isn't a whole lot of them.  Controlled burns do work, but this is only on 80 acres and it has an L shaped tree line in it that we want to keep and the majority of the trees that need to go start from the tree line and spread out from there.  I really would rather not take the chance although I'm sure it can be/has been done.

[tcsmpsi]

Oh, I don't know...Actually I find it the explanation and thought behind it, more than worth the initial 'shock'.