TN woodcutter
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Come on down to TN! Plenty of good wood to cut, nice mountains, a little snow here and there, a bit of fire. Everything a man can want, to be honest.
Been Thinking About Moving to the United States
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It's hard telling whether moving here would be a good idea or not, timber cutting wise. Maybe get in on the Big Thorne sale in the Tongass? I have heard quite a few calls for cutters on that project.
1270d
ArboristSite Guru
That's only a thousand acre clear-cut isn't it. Probably wouldn't pay to chase small jobs like that.
I believe one of my cousins is falling on big thorne now.
I'm not real familiar with the Tongass, but its south east Alaska, 1000 acres would keep guys going for quite a while, big timber, and thick too, also going to be steep ground.
Not as simple as driving a feller buncher through and clearing 2-3 acres a day per machine.
Likely going to be a lot of hand falling and bucking, once down to a manageable size the tops can be processed but not much else.
Also likely to be a bunch of Helicopter units, imagine if you will line skidding 80 acres with one skidder that can only drag 3-4 logs at a time, and has a 10-20 minute turn time. Just this skidder is flying and burning about 900 times the fuel.
Couple that with it being in Alaska, you only get about 6 months in a good year that is workable, or less.
Some of the 80 acre units here can take months to complete, longer if road building is involved.
Not as simple as driving a feller buncher through and clearing 2-3 acres a day per machine.
Likely going to be a lot of hand falling and bucking, once down to a manageable size the tops can be processed but not much else.
Also likely to be a bunch of Helicopter units, imagine if you will line skidding 80 acres with one skidder that can only drag 3-4 logs at a time, and has a 10-20 minute turn time. Just this skidder is flying and burning about 900 times the fuel.
Couple that with it being in Alaska, you only get about 6 months in a good year that is workable, or less.
Some of the 80 acre units here can take months to complete, longer if road building is involved.
You might have use another strategy to get the girls down there, they love the lumberjack thing but the lumbersexual craze means they have to go through a lot of dead wood before they get the real thing.
Realmanski
Big_Wood
westcoast dweller
John, did you forget that your not even allowed across the border? lol
1270d
ArboristSite Guru
I posted in jest. The thousand acre cut is huge in my book, let alone the size of big thorne in reality.
Not sure where I had picked up that number but it sure was off. Thanks for the link madhatte
Yer welcome!
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
That should be about 300 big trees right? Give or take?
around 42000 trees if they are around 3500 bf per tree... ish... or 1,260 weeks of labor at roughly 1 hr per tree, probably more, much more
Those numbers sound about right to me, especially after you factor in helicopter time and bucking, since most of this will be on roadless land.
bitzer
******** Timber Expert
Like you nerds did the numbers. I figured half a million feet a tree. They will be done in no time!
John come on down to Georgia. You would be raising the average I.Q.!
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Just realized I'm a democrat in a reblicans body.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Would really love to visit Georgia, but so hot there. New Jersey has alot of wood as does New York , I have seen it before and it is growing faster than we can cut it down.
Tenderfoot
ArboristSite Guru
There is a lot of wood in CT too, I get 10 cords at a time dumped on me for free. More then the mills will take, honestly. It will be a different market then you are used to, but you can make it work. The Taxes are high in CT, NY, and NJ. Lots of iron in the wood too. Spend a lot of time with damaged chains. The North East is not a good place to be for a logger. Lots of small lots and not a lot of money plus high taxes. I would go west or south, but that is just me.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
The super sexy lead singer of the Pretenders just told me I need to move to Ohio. Wow, do I ever love her. Wish I had the honour of her being in the same room as I.
Chrissie would eat you alive man...
ye ever notice how there are only 2 songs about Ohio, neither one of them are like really proud of Ohio...
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