Prices-- what is it about hardwood pulpwood?

[DirtForester]

 

[Samuel]

There is even another level of confusion with our operations as the bunchers and skidders get paid by the m3, the chippers and trucks get paid by the BDT (bone dry tonne).  Most of the loggers here talk m3 not cords anymore.  Thats more of an eastern thing now.

[DirtForester]

There is even another level of confusion with our operations as the bunchers and skidders get paid by the m3, the chippers and trucks get paid by the BDT (bone dry tonne).  Most of the loggers here talk m3 not cords anymore.  Thats more of an eastern thing now.

  

[SwampDonkey]

Samuel, that is only true because your on crown land operations. So it's thrust upon them. Here there is a lot more private ownership as far as the percentage of the land base. Most loggers are over 50 and most landownership in their 60's +, so imperial units are imprinted like in stone. Mills still pay in metric, but it still gets converted for any meaning to them. On crown lands here it is also metric as it is in the west. Your just dealing with a different set of circumstances out there.

[Samuel]

Perhaps the farmers/private land holders are more with the times as the speak metric as well out here.  I guess we pay less attention to religion and politics and get on with life.   

[SwampDonkey]

I don't think metric ever stopped anyone from getting the job done.  I'll bet wheat is still sold in bushels, potatoes by the barrel or hundred weight.