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Awesome Jacob! Thanks for posting that. I know its from 30 years ago, but it blows me away that those units were producing 60+mbf per acre. It really gives an idea of how much wood you guys have/had out there. Very good info. I wouldn't want to be the guys putting all that wood up the hill. I'll bet there was some #####in. Bucking up hill sucks and that's for the little sticks of wood I cut. I'll bet that more than one stem slipped over the stump and down the hill too. I don't believe that about the cutters thinking it as safe or safer to lay everything up hill. Thanks again!
 
Quartering up hill isn't bad especially when falling a herein bone pattern in corridor logging.IMHO. but straight up and down stinks. IMO also:msp_biggrin:
 
bitzer said:
Awesome Jacob! Thanks for posting that. I know its from 30 years ago, but it blows me away that those units were producing 60+mbf per acre. It really gives an idea of how much wood you guys have/had out there. Very good info. I wouldn't want to be the guys putting all that wood up the hill. I'll bet there was some #####in. Bucking up hill sucks and that's for the little sticks of wood I cut. I'll bet that more than one stem slipped over the stump and down the hill too. I don't believe that about the cutters thinking it as safe or safer to lay everything up hill. Thanks again!
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Some of the lower ground around here hit 100mbf per acre. I got to work in it. Big stuff and big machinery to get it out and lots of traffic on the roads. It actually took less time on our part because it was all clearcuts--no marking out corridors, not much marking at all--simple.
 
That's really amazing to me. Here in a clear cut situation with average timber we're looking at 10-15mbf per acre.
 
bitzer said:
That's really amazing to me. Here in a clear cut situation with average timber we're looking at 10-15mbf per acre.
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Our district, which was smaller then, ran 120 to 150 million board feet through the scale shack annually.
Now it is 30 million for the area that was 5 districts. That's less than 10% of what it used to be.
 
I've got a couple of stands in a sale I'm working on now that are about a hundred years old and are averaging 32 MBF/ac. We're after ~6 MMBF/yr over 100,000 ac (60,000 ac forested). Those numbers are big but not insanely so. We'll not likely see OG again but we will surely see big timber again.
 

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