EP58:What to expect during a timber harvest on your homestead 

singleman I really like having an expert on the homestead. Definitely raises the bar on the quality of info coming from this channel!

+RTH--H ....Absolutely agree. He who is his own Dr. has a sick fool for a patient. I know a lot about a few things, and a little about many things. The hardest lesson I ever learned was to realize there's GOOD reasons WHY I need to hire 'Pros'. And THEN doing it! Case in point....Those thousands of ft PVC we discussed earlier. I dug the first 300 ft of trench myself. Took days of my valuable time. The next 300 was dug by hired labor while I concentrated on making money. The rest of it was laid by a company with a trencher. The cost per ft by the pros was pennies on the dollar compared to the previous years.....Sigh. Ignorance/ being stubborn is expensive.

How did the sale go. What was the profit

aramarine6 wow! Thanks for the high praise!

Red Tool House - Homestead My pleasure. You guys are living the life. Someday I hope to do something similar. As an Arborist this video was very informative from the Forester point of view. And I'm sure it answered a ton of questions for anyone that has thought about harvesting timber from their land.

Thanks! Good luck with your future move

Good luck!

@@RedToolHouse Troy I did sell my timber after this Video I sold it myself I sold enough to pay my 134 Acres off and get all my Money back I had in the land, and Got $5000 in my pocket after, I did get a really bad offer from Hammer Lumber they tried to low ball me thanks to your Video I knew Tony was trying to rip me off But another two guys offered three times what he tried to get it for, but any way thank you for a Great Videos you really help with the info

3Sphere I actually don’t delete the negative comments. I have deleted less than a handful only due to excess f-bomb usage. I try to keep the channel family friendly. Good luck with your channel sounds like your topic may be a bit more polarizing. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Red, that says a lot about you. My channel will be all about homesteading and the synergy going on now between ideas from the old ways, new technology, organic farming & gardening, free range managed ranching and just all the thousands of new ideas, techniques and philosophy stemming from Permaculture and free thought in the homesteading explosion. So that won't be controversial by all indications, and in most cases, seems to be one of the few refuges of peace and love in the current American experience. Now though, as a blogger and a proud and jubilant Trumpian Deplorable I am very political and I really do enjoy the fight! As you perhaps may have noticed....... (LoL) there is a civil war going on in the country, basically between irresponsible, pie-in-the-sky Socialists and traditional Constitutionalists- with everything but actual lead flying between the two sides. (with notable exceptions :) I will happily lay down my weapons (maybe, probably) when I start my homestead and channel. I suppose I will have to if I want my channel to be anything other than a battleground. Then again, I suppose most homesteaders are conservatives anyway because it takes common sense to succeed on the land. Most liberals will fail anyway at this because it is just a fantasy for them and they don't have what it takes to survive without their extensive support systems. They are city people who will fail at their fantasy and return to the safe confines of concrete and blacktop. There are many of them on RU-vid already. It's sad and they just look out of place on the land. So anyway, it's good to know that you and other Homesteaders and back to the dirt people are generally bathing in the love of the land and the better angels of our nature. In fact, that has HUGE positive portent for the future. Because when I look all about at the general decay of the society around us and the disgusting state of the food supply of the masses with its chemical pesticides and fertilizers, biological (GMO), antibiotic and hormonal contamination, I see the Homestead and organic movements as the new spring growth bursting up from below the mat of the dead and dying old paradigm. I want to be much more a part of the new solution! I want to be ALL IN! It is very exciting! Sorry I bloviate so much. This is why I blog a lot. Just don't know when to quit. I do love it so! :) I will try to curb my irrational exuberance on your channel in the future....! :) Merry Christmas!!!

Sounds like it is going to be a good channel. Let me know when you get it going and we will give you a shout out.

Thanks Red, will do!

3Sphere You weren’t kidding about “more speech”

Ezekiel reed we did a video on this very subject. My last herd of pork we just processed finished this fall of 5 acres of oak wood lot. We have a bounty of acorns this year.

Ah okay, yeah i heard the market of artisan hams revolves around acorn finished pork,especially in spain's "Dehesas"(a silvopasture system spain has) with a famous ham called Pata Negra. If you ever get into making your own special "appalachia" ham of some sorts.

Homesteaders used to fatten the hogs with American Chestnut but that's a thing of the past. So sad.

C.Ray Ratliff ll if your property is in Clay County definitely call Jeff. He manages several tracts in Clay county. His contact info is at a wvlandgroup.com

Thank you RTH Marry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your Family...

C.Ray Ratliff ll Merry Christmas to you all as well!

Too many variables to be worth it. You could have an acre of dense white oak barrel stave grade that would be worth 20 times more than a scrub acre. Species value changes almost daily. Oak has stayed up for years but it depends on the location as to how much per board ft. They take into consideration how far they have to truck it for selling to the processor.

Truer words never spoken.. Land owners are taken advantage by foresters. If you understood how much $$ these guys are taking from small property owners is appalling

If you had loggers in mind wouldn’t you tell the forester to send bid letters to them as well as the others? The forester I deal with has 12 loggers he has dealt with but I can request additional loggers. He gets 10%.