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Managing Your Timber Sale

Managing Your Timber Sale. Advice for landowners before logging. What’s a Fair Share for the Owner?. Understanding log markets and the jargon C,K, and J sorts, camp run Pulp wood, chip ‘n saw Log scaling and weight scale What should a logging job cost?. Understanding Log Markets.

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Managing Your Timber Sale

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  1. Managing Your Timber Sale Advice for landowners before logging

  2. What’s a Fair Sharefor the Owner? • Understanding log markets and the jargon • C,K, and J sorts, camp run • Pulp wood, chip ‘n saw • Log scaling and weight scale • What should a logging job cost?

  3. Understanding Log Markets

  4. Understanding Log Markets • Log prices fluctuate • Log market contacts are important • Perceptions of log quality vary • Know what you have in order to evaluate harvest timing and target purchasers

  5. Log Markets: Sources of Data

  6. The Jargon • Bureau grades: peeler, SM, 2S, 3S, 4S • Export Sorts: Japan, China, Korea, others • Domestic Sorts: Camp run, chip ‘n saw, diameter/length breaks, oversize logs

  7. Log Sorts: Peeler

  8. Log Sorts: Japan

  9. Log Sorts: Korea

  10. Log Sorts: Chip-and-Saw

  11. Log Sorts: Alder Sawlogs

  12. The Jargon: Sorts Revisited

  13. A final word about log exports • Source: April 2002 report by James Stevens, Campbell Group LLC

  14. Log Scaling and Weight Scale • Roll-out scale

  15. Log Scaling and Weight Scale • Roll-out scale • Puget Sound Log Scaling and Grading Bureau 1969 Rule Book “Independent” 3rd party measuring • Mill scale • Ton wood • Weight sampling

  16. What Should a Logging Job Cost ? • What is a “logging job”? • Extras Clearing debris and pulling stumps Burning piles Capital improvements Road maintenance and abandonment Permitting, engineering, surveying Marketing services Harvest administration Reforestation

  17. Logging Cost Factors • Logging systems • Timber size and quality • Road access • Distance to market

  18. More Cost Factors • Harvest volume • Silvicultural system • Neighbor concerns • Contract terms (“Extras”)

  19. What Should a Logging Job Cost ? • What is the magic “% split”? There isn’t one: logging costs commonly range from 20-70 % of gross WDOR uses the figure 35 % of gross when no records are available

  20. QUESTIONS ?

  21. Presented by: John D. Gold, Principal John Gold & Co., Consulting Foresters 619 Commercial Avenue Suite 25 Anacortes, WA 98221 360/299-8166 gold@fidalgo.net

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