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yote1 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2008, 01:28:23 am »

hello all,
roger 4400 if you have any amount of this 16-18 inch yellow birch you may well be setting on several tractors. word in my area is yellow birch is hot now sawlogs and up. i was told last week veneir was upwards 4000.00 mbf. dont know weather true or not, i've only seen a hand full of yellow and none of which were close to that 16" range. any how food for thought. TRACTOR!!! i dont have any reason to dought my buyer as he asked me if i new anyone with yellow birch. hope this is usefull info.

thecfarm · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2008, 04:15:43 am »

yote1,welcome to the forum. Stay awhile.You will like it here.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2008, 06:56:30 am »

Hi Yote1:

How much will this one fetch, it's 25 inches at breast height and 68 feet tall. It's not on an optimum site, it's a harvested cedar stand. But, it's a pretty decent site because there are 26 inch aspen 77 feet tall. According to NB standard volume tables it's about 1 cord of wood or about 500 bf. First limbs are at 20 feet. What's that worth?

Sometimes trees are worth more than $$.

roger 4400 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 31, 2008, 11:03:01 am »

Hi everyone!
Thecfarm, you and Ron are right 100%.....many loggers work right, others want to do as much money they can and don,t care about the mess. My uncle did not watch that logger and as I told you I had to pay for the damages....but I,ve learned. On your site, the pines were yours ? must get nice clear planks,,,,very nice logs.

Swampdonkey, I,m wrong when I call my CLEARANCE a prairie (mon petit accent francais hahaha) my french accent....but between us (family) we called it this way.
Over here buyers will buy 50% heart hard maple BUT the price will go downnnnn quite fast (I never sold any up to now but the prices are the one in the syndicat (union) book) october 2007
hard maple 14in +, foot log, heart 1/3 $3,200 mbf
14in + heart 1/3 to 1/2 $2,200 mbf
but for others it will fall from $3,000 to $1,100 mbf a nice drop. But I never experienced it (sold any).
the 25 in. yellow birch is very nice

Yote1, welcome on the board, you,ll find a family over here, I,m new also and everyone were very kind with me . Where are you from.....
Over here in Quebec, white birch some times worth more $ than yellow. My big yellow birch is the only one that big (+- 40 in. and +- 50ft before first limbs). but I,ve read that for veneer the mills can take to 30in.......and all the infos we can get are usefull. In fact I have a few nice yellow birch but I have more hard maple...but with hard maple you only know the value when it is down (small heart or big heart) and some veneer buyers also look at the size of yellow birch heart.... see you all.
Roger

yote1 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 31, 2008, 08:48:28 pm »

thanks for the welcome, i'm from north central WI, as for the yellow birch i must correct myself, they are buy for saw logs note veneer, i dont know the buyer or as i said before if this is true, but have heard it from 2 different people. i asked what the finished product was (cabinets, floor,ect...) no info. none the less them are for sure the largest birch ive seen. and 26" aspen WOW been alot of years since there was anything like that around here. spent most of my winter taking aspen (easy access and pills up fast) i should be hauling a load first of the week, i will see if i can get any more info on the y-birch.
just for you all to compare:
hard maple: veneer-900.00, #1-575.00, #2-400.00, cull-200.00
50-60% hearts drop1 grade, over 60-70% drop 2 grades, over 70 is cull
this buyer buyes mainly saw logs resells veneer, as also cut way back and has become real tite on scale last couple weeks.
veneer buyer:
hard maple grade 1-3500.00, #2-2500.00, #3-2000.00, #4-1400.00, #5-1100
this buyer is strict when grading but is also very fair. dont know as to if the have cut back yet.

we have hade a real good winter here other than a few days high temps below zero have had little snow, which has melted 2 different times. makes the mills fill up fast. i find it very interest to see the difference in timber markets throughout the regions. Thats all for now

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #25 on:** January 31, 2008, 10:17:19 pm »

This yellow birch is not real old (well that's relative) because the whole place burnt in the early 1900's when my grandmother was very young. I also found old cedar stumps that were burnt out. So maybe 100 years old, they live a lot longer than that. The aspen would be the same age and are dying off now, dad cut 300 cords of aspen alone on 10 acres in 1984. The regrowth is 6-8 inches now at dbh. I thinned a stand of mixed growth by my house that had large tooth 45 feet tall and 8-10 inches in circular clumps into it. It was cut in 1994. Sure fast growing stuff. We were spacing hardwood and fir and some trembling, the trembling were nowhere near the growth as the large tooth.

Here's a 32 inch large tooth