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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?
  • Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 19:59:41 -0700

Mike-

Is the toasty ash still suitable for firewood?

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- mikerock AT mhtc.net wrote:

From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] clearing land cost?
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 20:10:28 -050
In 1978 my neighbor hired me to clearcut 6 acres of oak forest. I did
it on shares for firewood. He sold $20,000 of really nice logs, some
good veneer (that's where the big check came from...the saw logs were
around 10K)(log prices were sky hi around here then). He then hired our
local cuthroat to clear the stumps and deroot down about a foot, with
long tines on the Cat bucket, made for that. He told him to work until
he got to $10k and then quit. Got it all cleared for that, ready to
plant. So he had make 10K on logging and he and I both had several
years of firewood.

The land has been into the normal rotation of corn/oats/beans/sod/hay.
It is good land.

On the hill to the south he cleared twenty acres over a few years. The
county ag guy came by and was skeptical. The forester came by and said
that THAT land was best left in trees. So it was replanted to white oak
and ash. Another twenty years and they can start selectively cutting.
The Ash Borer was not around then....he is now....the ash is toast.

Mike

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