To the right person they may have some value, fence post, fencing and if large enough furniture. assuming it was used for a fence row and they are free of nails and wire. I cut several old growth off my property and made some rustic furniture.
To the right person they may have some value, fence post, fencing and if large enough furniture. assuming it was used for a fence row and they are free of nails and wire. I cut several old growth off my property and made some rustic furniture.
It's an interesting process, i had about 25 acres thinned a couple years back, i grows back really quick, undergrowth especially.I agree...cedar is a beutiful wood...it's just an area this size is intimidating....and I considered attacking it myself...don't mind running a chainsaw one bit....just don't know with work schedules if I would ever complete the project....hoping this company can come in and complete the thinning in a reasonable amount of time.....but if there isn't enough tonnage I guess we could offer it to others....it's just not easy to find people who want that volume of cedar....or that can handle cutting that much....my understanding is this company trucks it to a mill in Kentucky to be processed.....looking forward to learning more about the process.
It's an interesting process, i had about 25 acres thinned a couple years back, i grows back really quick, undergrowth especially.
How many acres we talking DR?
If I remember correctly, when Dr. Woods cut the cedar glades on his property, Mennonites did the cutting, keeping the larger cedar for split-rail fences and fence-posts.
That's great! Hoping it works out for you this year. Everything happens for a reason.Update on the cedar harvest/thinning project....Met with the Forester today and walked the property....very knowledgeable guy...he believes we have enough cedar to bring a crew in....some logs big enough to saw for lumber....smaller stuff will be chipped....all of it will be trucked to Kentucky for processing....only challenge he is seeing is with him getting the big rig that hauls logs to the location deep in the property but he said he'll figure it out..... according to him the cedar market is strongest in the summer so that's when they do the most of their work...plus he doesn't like to get his equipment in the timber in the wet winter months...ruts, etc....in reality our job is small for this outfit but he said we caught him at a good time.....we are located inbetween two big contracts ....one of which is close is wrapping up so he's going to "try" to squeeze us in....but if he can't get it this summer....then it will be next summer...but when the time comes he said his crew will be in and out in one week..no more than two... weather permitting.....next step is he's going to put a proposal together describing the project and email it to me for review next week.....I'm hoping we can get the harvest complete this summer to get the canopy open and sunlight on the ground....but I know habitat improvements take time and we have to be patient....it just I've been studying on this project a while and am just anxious to get going.
LOL Ive cut 30" poplar out of corn rows before. Now granted, the average person cant see them, but if you've done this stuff as long as I have, you learn a few things. "Hillside turning plows" leave a distinctive signature if you know what to look for. It also helps to be old. Ive literally watched places go from pasture fields to decent timber.Historic aerials is indeed an excellent resource; I found one from 1946 of my farm. Also, go for a walk with a logger or forester sometime...you talkin'bout someone who can read the land. Amazing what their eye and experience can see that we don't pick up on immediately.
Text him or give him a call. Sometimes things slip our minds. I try to keep an actual list on paper of the jobs Ive looked at and traded for. Don't hound him to death but a call isn't going to hurt anything. Our jobs are very much weather related and we cant control that.Well....as mentioned....back in March I met with the owner of the company who harvest cedar....super nice guy, seems very knowledgeable....when we parted ways he said he would be in contact with me and would email me a management plan for our stand of cedar..... unfortunately I hadn't heard a word from him since that day? I know at the time we met he had two crews working on two large jobs...and I understand in his world our project is small....but was still hoping to hear something? Trying to be patient being there are not logging operations standing in line to take cedar..... knowing he was slammed when we met I've tried to leave him alone but may try to reach out to him soon if I don't hear anything..... anyway, I started this thread and got allot of great ideas from you guys....felt I owed y'all an update.... hopefully more information on the topic in the future.
Text him or give him a call. Sometimes things slip our minds. I try to keep an actual list on paper of the jobs Ive looked at and traded for. Don't hound him to death but a call isn't going to hurt anything. Our jobs are very much weather related and we cant control that.
I wish I knew somebody around here that did cedar. I could keep them very busy. Unfortunately for me, my overhead is too high and the volume of production is too low with cedar for me to be able to do it.