[msredneck]

I planted about 90 acres mostly by hand back in 86, 87 and '88

Time to harvest...or thin

Prices are pitiful....fun to watch the cutter, skidder and loader however....

Loggers have a terrible time keeping equipment running which is why most of em are broke

This is a pic of the cutter....Bad a$$ machine $250,000

 

[msredneck]

Money on the ground ...waiting to be loaded....

Damn Loader breaks down a lot







Loader is practically new...$250,000 and breaks down continually...really slows things down...it don't matter how fast you can cut em and drag em if you can't put em on the truck

:wallbash:

 

[msredneck]

a thinned row...

Pretty....like thinning corn

Can't make much money on pine these days...This is my 2nd thinning....aint making jack at $7 a ton for pulpwood....some chip and saw in here

Trying to make it just right....trees gotta have space to grow...waiting for the big clear cut in about 6 years...Then I can hold out for prices to be good ..make some real $ and maybe think about retiring or doing something different...like a gun store :lol3:

 

[DirtyWorks]

Yep. Logging is tough business these days. Or any days for that matter. The old saying is...Quickest way to a million dollars is to start with two million and start logging! This also holds true for mulching.

 

[msredneck]

Yeah my logger grossed 1.2 mil last year...trouble is He spent 1.4 mil.

Just his notes on his gear is 20k mo...every month...working or not...a 250K skidder is worth 20K trade in in 3 years....just enough for him to roll the note and start another...

asked him why He did it....says He luvs it...and He don't give a sh!t about being broke...He says I didn't have sh!t coming in and I don't plan on leaving with any sh!t....

Lot to be said for that I guess....Many days I hate getting up in am to go to work....

 

[msredneck]

Another thing...I've waited 20+ years on this $

Mills paying $29 a ton

Timber Co makes about $3 a ton, Landowner makes $7...a whole lot of the rest is fuel costs transporting it....Some of mine is trucked over 2 hrs one way to Columbia or Taylorsville...

well at least I'm creating jobs in the logging, trucking and milling industry for a little while

Unless U R big time...there aint no $ for a small timber owner either...Trust me...Maybe when I have a bunch of saw logs in 4 or 5 years I can sit em out and wait for higher prices

when ya'll go to grocery store and they ask u paper or plastic....demand paper!

 

[DirtyWorks]

Great bumper sticker......."Those of you who object to logging should try using plastic toilet paper"

 

[quigleysharps4570]

A man sure wouldn't make much of a living logging in my neck of the woods.

 

[DirtyWorks]

A man sure wouldn't make much of a living logging in my neck of the woods.

Thats for damn sure. I had a buddy invite me to Kansas to make make some change during the wheat harvest. I said why the hell would I want to go to Kansas? He convinced me that "in Kansas there is a pretty girl behind every tree" so I went.
There were NO TREES!!
On the other hand, I did get to watch a dog run hisself to deth looking for a tree to piss on.! :thinking:

In Kansas the range finders for deer are marked...one day...two day.. three day when you spot through them :lol:

 

[msredneck]

Despite what all the tree hugger alarmist tell you...We got more timber in the USA today than we did when only the indians were here.

Pine pulpwood is a cheap commodity now I'm afraid...Its still fun to grow em...my land was washing away with cotton and soybeans...at least I stopped that...I'll clear cut em in 6 yrs...replant and my daughter can enjoy the land....

Yeah....ya'll have fun wiping your a$$ with plastic :128:

 

[sidroski]

What county's your land in? Sounds not to far from Grandmother's, had some family land down in Walthall County but it was sold when she died. Your's must be closer to the MS river, west side of 55. Her's had nearly a mile along the Bouge Chitto, 360 acre's or so. They'd cut it in sections every few years, kind of making a loop around the property. Had two Aunts in FL, one Uncle who was down there with cancer, and the other three brothers lived in Jackson so they sold it. One uncle who worked for GA Pacific said later he had thought about taking it to court to stop the selling of the land since there were a few on the fence, but that was a while back (80's) so it must have been a better market. Hated they sold that, spent a lot of time down there hunting. Lawyer from N.O. bought it but that's another story.

 

[msredneck]

Its in Hinds Cty near Utica Give me a check for about $450,000 and its yours

 

[bubbat]

You just made some nice shooting lanes. Been waiting on by BIL to cut some in his pines.

 

[sidroski]

Its in Hinds Cty near Utica Give me a check for about $450,000 and its yours

Little short this week, catch me next payday.

 

[RIVERBILLY]

a thinned row...

Pretty....like thinning corn

Can't make much money on pine these days...This is my 2nd thinning....aint making jack at $7 a ton for pulpwood....some chip and saw in here

Trying to make it just right....trees gotta have space to grow...waiting for the big clear cut in about 6 years...Then I can hold out for prices to be good ..make some real $ and maybe think about retiring or doing something different...like a gun store :lol3:

looks a lot like da shed shooting lanes

 

[Joe S.]

yea neck, that looks like you are doin it right...

wait till prices are up. if i have the option of paper or plastic, i ask for paper. problem is i dont get asked that EVER...

 

[jakeg823]

yea neck, that looks like you are doin it right...

wait till prices are up. if i have the option of paper or plastic, i ask for paper. problem is i dont get asked that EVER...

It's policy not to ask now. At least at kroger it was when I was working there in high school. They want people to stop using paper altogether because one paper bag costs somethin like 10 or 20 of the plastic ones...but you can also fit way more in paper....so it should even out....but grocery stores are run by greedy b!+ches too...just so y'all know