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Do you Really Save Money When you Do It Yourself? Seldom...
Do you Really Save Money When you Do It Yourself? Seldom...
 
It pays many times over to hire a Forester to manage your timber sale
 
 
 
  It really does pay big money to hire a forester
 
 
 
  I recently had a man call me and ask for some advice in selling his timber.
 
 
 
  A logger had approached him and offered him $5000 for a "selective thinning" of his forest, cutting everything with a 10 inch stump or larger, and he was concerned about how this would look.
 
 
 
  And he should have been concerned, because what this logger was proposing was not a selective thinning, but rather a severe high-grade, and nearly a clearcut.  This would have destroyed his forest, leaving only the very poorest quality stunted trees to regenerate his future forest.
 
 
 
  I walked through the forest and quickly determined that we could get the landowner far more money and only remove the poorest quality trees, leaving the best quality trees to regenerate where these poor quality trees were removed.
 
 
 
  We went on to remove 30 percent of ... more

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