Posted by sixtyninegmc on March 08, 2014 at 02:50:35 from (166.147.88.28):
In Reply to: Woodlots posted by JD Seller on March 04, 2014 at 05:41:34:
Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see I have cleared land, currently I have been using rented equipment and operating it myself, and my cost per acre is averaging $550/acre and a lot of sweat, logging off the big stuff myself which makes the dozer work go quite a bit faster.
As for the suitability of the ground, and legality, we are still basically on the frontier as far as agriculture is concerned, the state of Alaska is still selling raw sections as farmland, to be cleared from scratch. My place was never cleared further because the original owner was basically a hobby farmer, and only cleared enough to prove up his homestead. In my area there has been around 20,000 acres cleared since the '80s, and still more being cleared.
What I was wondering about was not so much the feasibility of clearing, I know that it can be done, but rather wondering how many leave a wood lot just for the pleasure more than practical reasons. I like being able to walk in my own woods, and if I was strictly after the most money, I would stay working in the oilfield where I am this winter, it is way more money for less work than farming!
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