2/ There's a variety of services that he can provide from "giving general advice" to "marking the trees I should cut" to "managing the loggers who cut the trees". Going w some combo of 2 and 3.
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3/ I think I want loggers to haul 20 cords per year in log form out of the forest and to a staging area, where I will cut and split it, then haul it back to the house. I might feel frisky and choose to drop a few trees and skid them out myself, but that's not my core competency
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4/ There is some, but not much, wood that is timber grade. Not enough to justify logging it at this point. There is much more that is cordwood grade. Plan is to selectively log for firewood / to open up the forest and improve the timber grade trees.https://twitter.com/gerad_tod/status/1163825812614729728 …
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5/ We are logging mostly hardwoods, but trying to - if anything - remove pine and replace with hardwood. Soil is high quality enough to support either, so we're going to push towards the better (i.e. hardwood). https://twitter.com/RtWingScientist/status/1163825842775920640 …
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6/ Good question! Some trees, when you cut them down, will spring new saplings from the old cut trunk (googling "coppicing"). Most just rot, though. Our forest is littered with 80% rotted stumps from the last harvest ~ 25 years ago. https://twitter.com/unorthodoxxxy/status/1163853705306759170 …
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7/ And, anyway, no you can just ignore the stumps. Plenty of room around them for seeds and acorns etc to take root and form new trees.
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Managed forests are pretty awesome. I new some old boys that owned a swamp in VT and they made a tidy profit between maple syrup and firewood.
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Very nice to have this sort of capacity. Pulling down 20cords is a lot of labor for one dude, though.
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I remember you mentioning something about your heating setup at one point. Do you have one of them fancy outdoor wood-burning boiler heaters, or just stoves inside or what? I love wood burning stoves, but it might get old feeding them all winter.
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