Getting my 25 acre wood lot timbered this winter

[Brufab]

Awesome pics!

 

[Brufab]

Even winter time is trouble where we want to get logged out, for some reason in michigan at our property once oct 1st hits it stays flooded all winter. 2nd pic is of me standing on bridge when not flooded. See that brushpile up in the upper left of ice pic its where the ground is tilled in the summer pic river goes from 20-25' wide to almost 200' wide

 

[xraydaniel]

Once the mill tallys come in I’ll post em here. Red and Black oak is going for about $450 mbf right now. Highest I’ve seen it before.

 

[Brufab]

Thanks for that info. We have mostly red oak and maple, the guy said a mix between hard and soft maple when he did a walk through. I'm guessing alot of the trees in the bottomland the first 10-15' of trunk will be no good from rot or swelling up all the time from being submerged in water for months at a time.

 

[xraydaniel]

Thanks for that info. We have mostly red oak and maple, the guy said a mix between hard and soft maple when he did a walk through. I'm guessing alot of the trees in the bottomland the first 10-15' of trunk will be no good from rot or swelling up all the time from being submerged in water for months at a time.

Out of all the red oak that was cut on my property I can count only two stumps where one had heart rot going up about 2 feet from the ground and another one that was hollow only about 3 feet up so it’s a good thing I did the cut when I did. All the other logs had nice clean wood.

 

[Drifter2406]

My logger with his Clark skidder. He’s got an ASV too and will bring in the fellerbuncher soon. It’s still a selective cut with pretty spaced out timber. I marked a few extra high grade oak on top of the mostly low grade cuts.View attachment 961513View attachment 961514View attachment 961515View attachment 961516

Blimey, look how many logs she's felled, she knows what she's doing, start them young over there then?

 

[xraydaniel]

Blimey, look how many logs she's felled, she knows what she's doing, start them young over there then?

Pulls her own weight and then some!

 

[xraydaniel]

Lot clearing began today. About 2 acres

 

[xraydaniel]

 

[xraydaniel]

There are just a few more trees in the foreground that need to be removed and then the cleanup of all the tops and debris being chipped up through Wednesday. After clear cutting this 2 acre spot it’s even more clear that this is gonna be an excellent homesite. Job done until next winter.

 

[xraydaniel]

Nice for a starter camp

 

[xraydaniel]

 

[Brufab]

So that's the landing or your build site? Looks really good.

 

[xraydaniel]

So that's the landing or your build site? Looks really good.

That’s the probable build site. I know I said earlier in this thread that I would not be doing the clear cut but using the revenue now while the machines were there made sense. I plan for a well and grading/clearing for beginners so that at least I can get a proper campsite out of it before I build.

 

[hamesadam]

i love these types of trees

 

[ValleyForge]

Even winter time is trouble where we want to get logged out, for some reason in michigan at our property once oct 1st hits it stays flooded all winter. 2nd pic is of me standing on bridge when not flooded. See that brushpile up in the upper left of ice pic its where the ground is tilled in the summer pic river goes from 20-25' wide to almost 200' wideView attachment 971158View attachment 971159

i had to build a bridge over something similar…it’s a swamp half the year…

 

[xraydaniel]

Some spring pics

 

[xraydaniel]

Some of the mill tallys as promised. Suffice it to say that with inventory building at the mills now and prices for lumber dropping I could not have picked a better time for this harvest.

 

[atpchas]

i had to build a bridge over something similar…it’s a swamp half the year…

Beautiful bridge bridge - what did you use for support under all the planking? Steel beams? Wood beams? Logs?
I've had a hand in replacing a bridge supported by redwood logs with steel I-beams (40' long) and installing a much shorter bridge (~20' long) supported by 18-20" redwood logs, so I can appreciate the efforts involved.

 

[Bill G]

I am truly not trying to be negative but when I see that Cherry price all I can say is WOW. I know there was not much of it but the really stole that. Thank god you did not have any Walnut or I would have hated to see what they paid, The rest of the species I am do not know with the exception of the Oak seems you did Ok on , well better than OK it was very good. The Cherry ..........no