Harvesting timber on 20 acres

Lots of unknowns here but assuming you have a fully stocked stand of pine, it needs to be thinned right. Letting just anyone have at it is not a good idea. Pine saw timber prices are still down but pulpwood is good. See timber mart south. Call a consultant forester.

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honestly, you need to be very careful what you agree to or you will have one hell of a mess on your property when all is said and done...

Very odd questions. Your property could go from $500/ac to $20k/ac. Could have oil, minerals, etc.

No way to just generically saw what 44ac in North LA is worth

As far as pursuing it, just depends on what you have. Trees could be at the end of their life cycle for all I know

told yall hamma time would go boss on this shite

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OP, listen to Hammer

you can't just bid a select cut without first hiring a consulting forester to mark the trees to be cut. So, to answer your question, hire a consulting forester. Tell him what kind of cut you want, and he will go out with a paint gun and put a paint mark on the tree at breast height and one at the stump that will still show after its cut. Then you get three companies to bid on the marked timber.

Believe it or not, a lot of the bigger timber companies lease out their timber land to hunting clubs. I know of a few properties that are straight plantation pine, and use game trails and food plots to their advantage. They also employ wildlife biologists to advise them on what to do because they have now found out how much money can be make for multi-use stands. I know of a couple of properties down here that make a fair amount off of letting people have bee boxes on their land.

If it is mixed HWP(hardwood/pine), you are gonna want to thin the pine and take out the hardwoods that are past their prime and may be rotting out or reducing the growth potential of other trees. One the other hand, you can also take out smaller saplings to help the larger trees grow better/faster. Trees grow in an area based loosely off of topography, which also controls soil type. You will get pine trees in more acidic soils, and in younger sections, and oak trees in other older sections.

Without seeing the property or knowing the location of mills in your area, I couldn't tell you what would come out of there as far as types of lumber and the value of it.

People who work for a timber company probably have a non-compete clause somewhere in their hiring, and wouldn't be able to cruise your property unless you had plans of selling it to them. Use a consulting forester, and to be honest, you can have 2 or 3 come out there and give you advice as to what you need to do.

Pine tree forestry is the easiest kind because their are growth numbers for your area that include things like soil type mainly. Everything is already mapped out for them and they have to do no work. Hardwood forestry is basically an art. You can have two foresters with 30 years experience, trying to reach the same objective, and they will disagree on the prescription. Mixed HWP is a little easier because you can manipulate the interior and edges to change the stand to hardwoods, making funnels for animals.


Don't know anyone in that area though, sorry. Tell them you want to maximize the property for hunting, but also need the money for something. If you don't say anything about the money, you might get ripped off. Sad to say, but people do this.




FWIW, Weyerhauser and Soterra clearcut anywhere between 17 and 24 yrs old. We have some of the best soil for pine growth in the country though.

All of that would probably go to pulpwood mills because they aren't optimal trees for being sawtimber. Water oak is the main thing of value there, and they are probably rotted out.

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