The main reason I'm in this patch is because of the diameter, much past 32" anymore and they don't pay you much. We have stuff with 6+ rings an inch half way from the heart but I have to watch the diameter on the butts with that stuff as well.
a lot of my firs have rings like that ,think its is from growing too fast .
I wouldn't say too fast, it's from thinnings in years past to keep them at a steady rate if you look you'll see it hasn't slowed down at all. That stuff is averaging 125 to 150 ft in height at 32".
they dock you for over size? that sucks. bigger the better i say.......until the equipment won't handle it lol.
Mike this is my personal family land.
Max standard export Doug fir is 32" butt until you get into temple sorts that go till 46" but the kicker there is you have to have 6 rings half way out from the heart. Domestic they don't hardly pay you for the big wood at all, and the little side 32" on down I have one mill that'll do 32" butts the rest do a max of 22" and rumors of them dropping down to 18".
5" is the minimum top for domestic and 9" for Japanese export and 8" for Chinese export. They are running a 40 year rotation on company ground around here so the wood is smaller so the mills are scaling back on their sizes as well plus you'd be amazed at what they send for export now it's nothing like what we use to send.
That's why we get those special orders still is there isn't much if it left anymore we still have a bunch of that big long tight growth ring wood. I have one oversized mill left near me that'll do anything you can bring them but they only pay 300 for 40's is what the last price sheet I saw which is more then hosed, and the other is Zippo in Eugene but they weren't accepting any wood right now.
Sounds like a Scrag Mill I worked at about 18 years ago.
It is like that in most buisiness'
