re: Harvesting timber on 20 acres

Thanks guys! Very good info. I will take your advice hammer.

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you can't just bid a select cut without first hiring a consulting forester to mark the trees to be cut

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If you have a good enough logger, you dont have to mark trees. You can just tell him the density that you want and they will get it done. You can also tell him what sizes to cut and he will take care of that also without marking.

This really also depends on what type of sale you have to them. In a lump sum contract, the forester would probably mark all of the trees and send someone out to look at every square inch of the property for them. In a cut-to-yield, they only pay you for what they cut, so marking is less than likely used here except for high value stands

Companies don't bid on the marked timber per se. You sell it to mills, and the forester gets paid and then pays you. Only money coming in is the tonnage or board foot sold to the mills, or anticipated selling to the mills.