[quote:6a34c64bd8]3. What is the best way to find an honest logger?[/quote:6a34c64bd8]
There's got to be a few out there. I've never met one. My dad has 40 acres of woods, and every time when having a few older trees cut out always had loggers that stole or tried to steal more trees, and damaged countless others. He bought a Wood-Mizer sawmill and never let a logger in again. He can use most of the lumber on the farm, though.
We had a tornado very close by in 2001. It was a F-2 or F-3. In the same storm we had alot of straight-line winds, too. Suddenly everybody and their mother from every adjoining state were timber buyers. They hung around for about 2-3 weeks, and after that, didn't want any more storm-damaged timber. Some woods that were hit were completely destroyed, some had some salvagable logs. The ones that were hit the worst, not even the firewood would be usable.
From what I've seen, unless they can get them for next to nothing, or you have some exceptional old-growth trees down, loggers aren't going to line up and fight for storm damaged trees, even if they look like the storm didn't hurt them. Those that are partially or totally laid over can be dangerous to cut off the stump/cut to length. They can do all kinds of strange things. Many are found to be bad when sawed into at the mill from the twisting/bending of the tree. We had a nice white oak "explode" on the bandmill that a tornado took down. When sawing the third side trying to get down to a cant, the log relieved itself and split apart about seventeen ways.
If you have insurance, now's the time to make a claim. If you clean this up yourself, be careful. If you get a logger, make sure he/she is at least insured. Get a contract before they make the first cut. If you ever only want certain trees to be cut, mark those yourself.
Sorry about your woods. I hope everyone made it through the storm ok.
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 07:55:16 06/01/11.
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