re: Milling Lumber

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there’s no market for the trees and it’s running $500-$700 per load to dump them, not counting fuel.

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I would challenge this....or at least the wording of it.

Is he saying that they would cost that much to dump once you have them loaded? Or that much to cut them down and get them loaded on the truck?

Because once they're loaded on a truck they absolutely have value. If they're average common logs they're worth $35 a ton delivered to a sawmill. If they're old growth grade pine logs, then probably closer to $65 a ton. And that's fairly common from Southern Virginia to East Texas.

They're basically worth $1000 to as high as $2000 per load delivered depending on quality. Of course it might cost you that much to cut them down and haul them off.

And by "load" I mean a full 28 ton log truck load.