BloodOnTheIce
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Ok I've got a few questions about milling and harvesting of wood for something other than firewood.
On my parents property there are several black walnut trees, they had a couple different foresters and
loggers come out and give them a price on harvesting the trees.
For the 25 or so trees the various outfits wanted to harvest they were offered anywhere from 2,500-3,500$ or about 100$ a tree.
I checked with the NYS DEC and this was well below, the going rate for the wood, when confronted with this all of the outfits looking at the trees,
blamed the low price due to
1. All of the trees are about 1000 feet off the road, and would be more difficult to harvest and get on the trucks
2. In general small number of trees to be harvested, all said 25 trees was barely worth coming out for
3. Only one of the trees was veneer quality so all of the other wood was of little value.
My parents decided to pass on having the wood harvested.
I've got plenty of saws and plenty of free time.
I'm looking to help out my parents and see if I can get them some money for these trees.
How would I go about getting the most money for these trees possible? Would I be better cutting the trees and doing all of the labor myself and line up buyers for the logs myself?
I have a Stihl 084 and could get an Alaskan Mill for it and cut them custom for a buyer.
I'm just trying to help out my folks and not really sure which method of turning these trees in cash would be the most profitable.
I appreciate any advice on the topic.
On my parents property there are several black walnut trees, they had a couple different foresters and
loggers come out and give them a price on harvesting the trees.
For the 25 or so trees the various outfits wanted to harvest they were offered anywhere from 2,500-3,500$ or about 100$ a tree.
I checked with the NYS DEC and this was well below, the going rate for the wood, when confronted with this all of the outfits looking at the trees,
blamed the low price due to
1. All of the trees are about 1000 feet off the road, and would be more difficult to harvest and get on the trucks
2. In general small number of trees to be harvested, all said 25 trees was barely worth coming out for
3. Only one of the trees was veneer quality so all of the other wood was of little value.
My parents decided to pass on having the wood harvested.
I've got plenty of saws and plenty of free time.
I'm looking to help out my parents and see if I can get them some money for these trees.
How would I go about getting the most money for these trees possible? Would I be better cutting the trees and doing all of the labor myself and line up buyers for the logs myself?
I have a Stihl 084 and could get an Alaskan Mill for it and cut them custom for a buyer.
I'm just trying to help out my folks and not really sure which method of turning these trees in cash would be the most profitable.
I appreciate any advice on the topic.