ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Just wondering what cutters are getting per ton just to lay them down and cut to spec. Is 5 per ton using your own saws and fuel a decent pay in fair timber?
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joesawer
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Thatis about $100-$125 per trailor load. It would have to be really good wood (Arkansas' standards) and good ground for me to do it.
It is hard to compete with a fellerbuncher.
If the timber is to big for a buncher then the buyer should figure in extra expense for falling.
It is hard to compete with a fellerbuncher.
If the timber is to big for a buncher then the buyer should figure in extra expense for falling.
Buzz 880
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What kind of timber are you cutting?
Southern Ar. has some nice pine stands. I have cut over four loads a day average and I am not fast. This is tree length, not cutting to length.
Then there are some places that it is hard to cut one load a day. In this area (central) probably two load a day average.
Are you making logs or tree length?
Then there are some places that it is hard to cut one load a day. In this area (central) probably two load a day average.
Are you making logs or tree length?
joesawer
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Driving through Arkansas I would pay money not to drive I-40. So I often take Hwy 82 through southern Arkansas. Near the Mississippi River there used to be the best stands of SYP I have ever seen. Man the log trucks would roll by with about 10 to 16 logs, 44' GP peelers, and it was all they could legally carry. I would love to cut that kind of timber on that kind of ground for $5 per ton.
Yea, parts of I40 are kind of like one of those offroad motorcycle tracks with all the humps. But its a lot better than it was a few years ago.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
cut to lenth
timber to be cut 20ft 6" and 16-6 I heard good timber
and in central Ar. I have been slow and this may be part time
I was looking for, I feel I can cut three loads if good timber
maybe four not what I normally make but better than not
working!
timber to be cut 20ft 6" and 16-6 I heard good timber
and in central Ar. I have been slow and this may be part time
I was looking for, I feel I can cut three loads if good timber
maybe four not what I normally make but better than not
working!
joesawer
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Yeah, almost anything is better than not working.
Look at the timber before you agree.
$300+ per day is not bad, as long as it doesn't take 9 or 10 hours to do it.
Look at the timber before you agree.
$300+ per day is not bad, as long as it doesn't take 9 or 10 hours to do it.
Buzz 880
ArboristSite Operative
If you can make $300 aday that's pretty good money.
joesawer
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If you could make it every day it would be great money, But with the way things are it seems that I am lucky to work half the time.
Not to mention the liability and overhead of being a contract cutter.
Not to mention the liability and overhead of being a contract cutter.
Just guessing here, but in this part of the country cut to length logs probably mean small equipment and small jobs. Lots of property lines,power lines and roads, houses etc. More interesting but more time consuming.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Well thats good for some I actually should make at least
750.00 per day but just sawing not bad and beats biding and not getting.
