Hello everyone!
Before we start, I’m located in NB, Canada so I understand there’s a lot of variances in the answers to my questions but I would still like some insight.
My family and I currently live off grid in a small cabin on 100 acres. We are planning our future homestead area and realistically would have to fall into some money for us to comfortably build our desired home.
Long story short..
We are hoping to harvest some of our acreage on our second lot (50 acres). The access is fine. We considered a CC but would prefer 2-3 strip cuts across the lot. This would probably get done through someone private with machinery I’m guessing? We have big SW such as balsam fir and spruce there and also decent size firewood (mostly red maple). Any tolerant HW and EWP would not be cut (there wouldn’t be enough worth their work)
How big of an area is normally worth their time? Does this depend on what kind of machinery someone has? Does a CC offer a much greater income than strip cuts? Realistically, how much money would a private landowner like myself make if all I do is flag the appropriated areas to be cut? Am I responsible for anything safety wise or anything else?
I’m also in touch with friends at work so hopefully soon I’ll have LIDAR information, volumes, dimensions, etc that should facilitate whether we do strips, CC, or a combination of both?
We don’t want to feel like we’re cutting all of our land (we love trees, I’m a forest ranger and we live off grid after all) but understand that a prescribed cut isn’t bad and we would like to make some money to help with our situation.
Thank you!
Before we start, I’m located in NB, Canada so I understand there’s a lot of variances in the answers to my questions but I would still like some insight.
My family and I currently live off grid in a small cabin on 100 acres. We are planning our future homestead area and realistically would have to fall into some money for us to comfortably build our desired home.
Long story short..
We are hoping to harvest some of our acreage on our second lot (50 acres). The access is fine. We considered a CC but would prefer 2-3 strip cuts across the lot. This would probably get done through someone private with machinery I’m guessing? We have big SW such as balsam fir and spruce there and also decent size firewood (mostly red maple). Any tolerant HW and EWP would not be cut (there wouldn’t be enough worth their work)
How big of an area is normally worth their time? Does this depend on what kind of machinery someone has? Does a CC offer a much greater income than strip cuts? Realistically, how much money would a private landowner like myself make if all I do is flag the appropriated areas to be cut? Am I responsible for anything safety wise or anything else?
I’m also in touch with friends at work so hopefully soon I’ll have LIDAR information, volumes, dimensions, etc that should facilitate whether we do strips, CC, or a combination of both?
We don’t want to feel like we’re cutting all of our land (we love trees, I’m a forest ranger and we live off grid after all) but understand that a prescribed cut isn’t bad and we would like to make some money to help with our situation.
Thank you!