T'was watching AxMen the other night and sure enough, they were averaging 4.5 MBF per truckload of mixed fir and hemlock. Where I would be logging south of here, there are no scales. Here in OR, there are miles of paved roads to nowhere, like the road into where I still live now, just for logging trucks. There are gobs of mills around there parts. The trees have pretty low taper; fairly straight, grew as a stand. No wolf trees. Not quite pole quality, but maybe a truckload or two of pole trees. There is a poll mill in Roseburg. Problem with that is the latency of payment. I may just sell it as a stand, and let them deal with cutting, logging and taxes though. I am still trying to figure it all out.
Where I would be logging is not on a steep slope, so not too many pistol butt trees. Unlike this property that was high-graded, and all the crap was left. Pistol butts, split tops, forks, wolf trees, bent and broken tops. Though Grand fir if fetching more than Dougs here now, she has enough to do a grand fir cut and get maybe a dozen trucks off of this property. I would do that if I owned this place. I would also fell the alders in the canyons and let the younger red cedars grow more. They are getting old (alders). Alder is fetching a good price now as well. Previous owners cut all the old and big cedars there and the alders grew in their place.