zogger
Tree Freak
a hundred bucks?
I don't care how careful or how small this skidder is, he is talking giving the property owner only a hundred dollars after making some big ruts and damage through a REAL SMALL acreage. He'll be destroying a significant part of the original posters future wood. He indicated he didn't just reject it out of hand, he said he bought wood from the guy before and he seems nice and all, it is just the reality on the ground. To me, a hundred dollars wouldn't be enough to replace what would get ruined. Now if the guy had a hundred acres and not just ten, then maybe, sure, plenty left over.
OR, if the timber guy would agree on delivery at some future date of a lot of similar wood, something that would compensate, then...go ahead.
Hundred bucks, nope, and I think you are off base a little thinking the guys here are anti woods work or work in general. They are just looking at it as small property owners.
But, then again, maybe the poster wouldn't mind an eventual access jeep road there. If the skidder guy can use a blade and back out and flatten it when he is done, so it isn't two foot deep ruts.
Bet some of the people in here have "POSTED: NO TRESSPASSING!!" signs every 10' around their property.
I personally would never say no right up front as a matter of course.
I'd walk the part of the lot he has already cut and then decide- if I was as anal as all that.
But I'm not. I'd walk the route he wants to use, designate the rub trees and the trees to be avoided like quality growing timber, then let the guy earn a living.
If the guy was as bad as all that, he wouldn't STILL be cutting. He'd have been shut down already.
In this economy we need every man who is willing to work TO work, and more to the point, to earn a PROFIT so he can then spend the money.
I would have thought a forum full of wood nuts would be far more inclined to help a logger than this. Typical "NOT IN MY BACK YARD" thinking. People want things to happen, for things to change and evolve, just not within 50 miles of where THEY are.
Bugs me.
I don't care how careful or how small this skidder is, he is talking giving the property owner only a hundred dollars after making some big ruts and damage through a REAL SMALL acreage. He'll be destroying a significant part of the original posters future wood. He indicated he didn't just reject it out of hand, he said he bought wood from the guy before and he seems nice and all, it is just the reality on the ground. To me, a hundred dollars wouldn't be enough to replace what would get ruined. Now if the guy had a hundred acres and not just ten, then maybe, sure, plenty left over.
OR, if the timber guy would agree on delivery at some future date of a lot of similar wood, something that would compensate, then...go ahead.
Hundred bucks, nope, and I think you are off base a little thinking the guys here are anti woods work or work in general. They are just looking at it as small property owners.
But, then again, maybe the poster wouldn't mind an eventual access jeep road there. If the skidder guy can use a blade and back out and flatten it when he is done, so it isn't two foot deep ruts.