Alrighty, exploring a new venture. I know its going to be a nightmare of hard work, mostly hoping some of you folks will talk me out of it.
Anyway, have a project lined up that is a full cleanup scalp it to the bone type stumps and all. Anywhere else on the Planet I could just burn the slash... (which I may still be able to do... IF DNR is being nice) But in the event that I can not burn the stumps and slash, I'll have to haul it off.
So the plan is to hand cut the Fir and Hemlock tops for pulp, as now there is still one pulp mill in the area and they are paying 33-35 a ton (which is pennies I know).
Or to haul it off would be about one load of junk per load of logs, at approximately $550 per load (I'd probably be getting around 1500-2000k for each load of logs(I say that now...)).
Fire wood is just too much work and no market for it this year anyway, very mild winter last year and no one burned much wood. Still have 9 or so dumper truck loads on a previous project that haven't sold.
So to the question of the day, is it worth it to spend probably 3 days limbing and bucking the tops for pulp? or should I just cross my fingers and hope they don't take up too much room in the dump boxes. (I'm figuring on getting 6-8 load of logs from this project so prob, like one maybe two loads of pulp logs?)
P.S. I will likely be renting an excavator on this job (unless I buy one first), so the loading of said stumps and digging of said stumps won't be the issue.
Anyway, have a project lined up that is a full cleanup scalp it to the bone type stumps and all. Anywhere else on the Planet I could just burn the slash... (which I may still be able to do... IF DNR is being nice) But in the event that I can not burn the stumps and slash, I'll have to haul it off.
So the plan is to hand cut the Fir and Hemlock tops for pulp, as now there is still one pulp mill in the area and they are paying 33-35 a ton (which is pennies I know).
Or to haul it off would be about one load of junk per load of logs, at approximately $550 per load (I'd probably be getting around 1500-2000k for each load of logs(I say that now...)).
Fire wood is just too much work and no market for it this year anyway, very mild winter last year and no one burned much wood. Still have 9 or so dumper truck loads on a previous project that haven't sold.
So to the question of the day, is it worth it to spend probably 3 days limbing and bucking the tops for pulp? or should I just cross my fingers and hope they don't take up too much room in the dump boxes. (I'm figuring on getting 6-8 load of logs from this project so prob, like one maybe two loads of pulp logs?)
P.S. I will likely be renting an excavator on this job (unless I buy one first), so the loading of said stumps and digging of said stumps won't be the issue.