American loggers show and storing timber in the woods for years

[akkamaan]

Hello everyone.
Have been lurking around here for a few years. Great forum. Now I have a question.
One of my Swedish friends told me he was watching a couple of episodes of the American Loggers TV-show. He noticed that they were storing cut timber "in the woods" for a year or longer until they got an order from the sawmill. What is the reason for cutting and storing instead of storing alive "on the root" and then "cut and deliver"?
In Sweden this would be illegal due to stored timber will attract insects that later will attack live trees. Also, the timber will be affected fungi and start a rotting process.
Can someone lease give my some relevant input on the "Maine way" of doing this?!

[schmalts]

It's just a guess,  but I would say it's about contract lengths and fluctuations in log prices.

[thecfarm]

One of those reality show?  :
I saw 2 men pick up a 500 pound alligator and put it in a back of a pick up on one of those shows.  :  I would think it was a mistake.

[Woodhauler]

Hello everyone.
Have been lurking around here for a few years. Great forum. Now I have a question.
One of my Swedish friends told me he was watching a couple of episodes of the American Loggers TV-show. He noticed that they were storing cut timber "in the woods" for a year or longer until they got an order from the sawmill. What is the reason for cutting and storing instead of storing alive "on the root" and then "cut and deliver"?
In Sweden this would be illegal due to stored timber will attract insects that later will attack live trees. Also, the timber will be affected fungi and start a rotting process.
Can someone lease give my some relevant input on the "Maine way" of doing this?!

Lots of your bigger contacters stock pile pulpwood, mostly hardwood. Never stockpile logs or softwood pulp. It don't set around for a year either. Maybe from late fall to mud season.

[akkamaan]

Thanks all for answers. I want to clarify, this was supposed to be sawmill timber, not pulpwood that they stored....
I can see hardwood pulpwood being stored like that even though it might lower the quality with time

[Onthesauk]

Big mills in the NW do it all the time.  Sort it and stockpile it; have a backlog for fire season or snow season.  Doubt that it ever gets held longer then a year, they rotate through it.  May put it under sprlinkers during the summer.  But in a yard, not the woods,.

[akkamaan]

Big mills in the NW do it all the time.  Sort it and stockpile it; have a backlog for fire season or snow season.  Doubt that it ever gets held longer then a year, they rotate through it.  May put it under sprinklers during the summer.  But in a yard, not the woods,.

Thanks Onthesauk,
I live here in PNW as well. Have a couple sawmills here in Port Angeles and of course they stock pile timber certain period but not for a year and espicially not without sprinkling water on it... But usually we have rain that provide most of that...