The Forestry Forum

What are the rates being paid on pine logging for custom cutting in your areas?  We've been offered a half-million board foot of white pine.  A good portion of it is large enough to use standard Doyle scale to figure it, but a lot of it is smaller and frankly not worth logging by scale.  Do you happen to know what is being paid by the ton  or what scale standard is more appropriate for just cutting, trimming and bucking smaller pine , but not skidding?  Most of what we do is Hardwood and large Pine, and so I have no idea what smaller softwoods should pay.  We need to know what our expenses are likely to be so as to venture a fair and reasonable bid.  :-/

I have no information from our mill because we are strictly hardwood. Sometimes we may have pine on a job but usually sell the logs to another nearby mill that makes log cabin logs.

One of those deals where they saw out square cants then run them back through a machine to make em round again ::)

In Texas, the cost of logging hardwood or pine is basically the same, anywhere from $20 to $25 a ton, depending on the job.   More on some tracts.