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Started by Woodhauler, February 11, 2015, 02:48:31 PM

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Woodhauler

Got 45 acres of planted red and white pine, plus another 60-70 acres of woodland! We thinned the pine in 1989, stuff is nice now! Going to cut 50% now! Allm the crap white pineand leave the log trees. Going to have the red pine marked for poles and see how many we need to cut after that!
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mad murdock

Congrats on that!! We always would try and have a "breakup job" line up each year so we had cash flow coming in during that time.  Depending on the year, sometimes the weight limits would take a long time to come off, and guys that couldn't get wood moved really had a tough time.
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HiTech

Hand cut red pine a couple times. In the winter it wasn't bad. The summer was terrible. lol Pitch all over everything. lol If you got some good poles they pay really well. Treat them with kid gloves. lol We sold all the small red pine to a place in Canada...above Quebec I think it was. They sent a tractor-trailor over and took all of the wood we had. It was 4 loads. They took down to 5 or 6 inches on the small end. Got around $1,100 to $1,200 a load for that stuff. I remember the truck that came for the poles had a special grapple on it so it wouldn't damage any of the poles. Wish I could cut poles everyday. lol Never in my life have I seen a tree that will bend like a red pine and not break. lol Some I know we bent like a U while pulling them out and they never broke. lol

deastman

Let me know when you want me to move the processor and forwarder in! :D
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Warped

Quote from: HiTech on February 12, 2015, 09:59:39 AM
Hand cut red pine a couple times. In the winter it wasn't bad. The summer was terrible. lol Pitch all over everything. lol If you got some good poles they pay really well. Treat them with kid gloves. lol We sold all the small red pine to a place in Canada...above Quebec I think it was. They sent a tractor-trailor over and took all of the wood we had. It was 4 loads. They took down to 5 or 6 inches on the small end. Got around $1,100 to $1,200 a load for that stuff. I remember the truck that came for the poles had a special grapple on it so it wouldn't damage any of the poles. Wish I could cut poles everyday. lol Never in my life have I seen a tree that will bend like a red pine and not break. lol Some I know we bent like a U while pulling them out and they never broke. lol
I'd be curious to know what is "really well" for good red pine poles and how big of a load brought $1,200? Also what length did they desire?
I looked into selling some but haven't been able to find out much. Doesn't seem many loggers locally deal with pole stock and had little information. I see you're in upstate and if you knew of any pole buyers. Thanks for any info you can provide, it's very appreciated.
Good with the rough stuff and rough with the good stuff

tj240

3b timber in booneville, ny buys poles and pays decent. they will even come and mark them so you know what lenght to cut them,then they truck them but you need to load, i believe. i always loaded them, but they may have loader trucks
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Warped

Good with the rough stuff and rough with the good stuff

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