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Post by terrifictom on Feb 7, 2017 14:20:42 GMT -6
It shouldn't hurt regrowth. They were logging close to one of the bear baits that I take care of. The parts that they had logged the previous year with the biomass removed was so fricken thick you couldn't walk thru it.
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Coda1
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Location: Hunting north of Staples, MN
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Post by Coda1 on Feb 9, 2017 21:55:43 GMT -6
Thanks for posting the prices. I have searched the web before but there is very little info on what you can expect to make by logging some of the trees. About all I could find was the price the mills paid per cord.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 9, 2017 22:50:12 GMT -6
Thanks for posting the prices. I have searched the web before but there is very little info on what you can expect to make by logging some of the trees. About all I could find was the price the mills paid per cord. I hear what your saying Codal. Hard to find many facts on logging numbers. That's why I wanted to share my numbers. Hope its something useful to the next guy. As said.....I believe I could have been paid another $5 / cord.....or maybe more. But to me, getting the right logger was invaluable to my property. Many of my acres were selectively harvested about 10 years ago......so with higher density timber stands you may expect a higher price per acre than is shown in my numbers. I went into my sale with my Forester guessing a $30,000 + sale. He hit pretty close to home.....and told me he wanted to be a bit conservative. The mills buying the timber buy everything by the ton. They arrive at a scaled price per ton based on an estimated weight per cord. Having sold lots of metal in my past.....I sold it by the foot, by the lb or by the length. In all cases we had good math on our side and could squeeze a few points of margin out of the customers. I'm sure the timber buying works much the same. |
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Post by wiscwhip on Feb 10, 2017 5:18:25 GMT -6
Having sold lots of metal in my past.....I sold it by the foot, by the lb or by the length. In all cases we had good math on our side and could squeeze a few points of margin out of the customers. Good luck with that ^^^ right now foggy, the whole fucking industry is nuts, we are having to sell shit at zero margin right now just to get work in the door and hope the parts processing, welding, and coating guys overperform in the shop to get us in the black on jobs. General contractors are calling us every day asking if we can shave a few pennies per pound off the price. Even our Joist and deck suppliers have told us they are selling jobs at no profit right now. It's fucking ridiculous. Lots of work out there, but everyone is giving it away. We turned down a couple commercial projects recently because the GC came back asking us to lower our pricing and we were already pretty much down to cost plus a couple cents and it's easy to go belly up on a commercial building. On our industrial projects, at least those are easier for the shop to overperform on and make us a couple cents a pound. |
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