Hurricane Damage

[Backpain]

Evening. Been to look at some hurricane damage in some local woodland. The owners are devastated and don't know what to do with it. I too am at a loss as I can't work out how the work could be done without huge costs. There's 3.5 acres and approx 400 tons, 30% maybe hardwood beach/oak and the rest is softwood. Not sure if it''s larch maybe someone can confirm it from the picture. It's all felled but would anyone be able to level it for the value of the timber? The softwood is upto 30"! What prices is softwood fetching? It's all over the place so I can't see how it can be done without a 5 ton forwarder and something to winch or grab through the mess. Access isn't too bad and roadside is about 500m.

It's a sad site and I'd love to help but I can't make it pay just for next years timber.

Any extimates on volume of timber? Not easy I know.

[Backpain]

Evening. Been to look at some hurricane damage in some local woodland. The owners are devastated and don't know what to do with it. I too am at a loss as I can't work out how the work could be done without huge costs. There's 3.5 acres and approx 400 tons, 30% maybe hardwood beach/oak and the rest is softwood. Not sure if it''s larch maybe someone can confirm it from the picture. It's all felled but would anyone be able to level it for the value of the timber? The softwood is upto 30"! What prices is softwood fetching? It's all over the place so I can't see how it can be done without a 5 ton forwarder and something to winch or grab through the mess. Access isn't too bad and roadside is about 500m.

It's a sad site and I'd love to help but I can't make it pay just for next years timber.

Any extimates on volume of timber? Not easy I know.

[Backpain]

Evening. Been to look at some hurricane damage in some local woodland. The owners are devastated and don't know what to do with it. I too am at a loss as I can't work out how the work could be done without huge costs. There's 3.5 acres and approx 400 tons, 30% maybe hardwood beach/oak and the rest is softwood. Not sure if it''s larch maybe someone can confirm it from the picture. It's all felled but would anyone be able to level it for the value of the timber? The softwood is upto 30"! What prices is softwood fetching? It's all over the place so I can't see how it can be done without a 5 ton forwarder and something to winch or grab through the mess. Access isn't too bad and roadside is about 500m.

It's a sad site and I'd love to help but I can't make it pay just for next years timber.

Any extimates on volume of timber? Not easy I know.

[slack ma girdle]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

[slack ma girdle]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

[slack ma girdle]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

[Backpain]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

 

It must have been a massive twister, it went up a field which is 100m wide and it schedded to oak trees on either side. Imagine walking the dog and one of those comes up behind you. I was in the area at the time and we expected rain but nothing on the scale we got.

[Backpain]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

 

It must have been a massive twister, it went up a field which is 100m wide and it schedded to oak trees on either side. Imagine walking the dog and one of those comes up behind you. I was in the area at the time and we expected rain but nothing on the scale we got.

[Backpain]

Holy cow that is a mess.

You need big machines to sort that out, and you might even make some money !!

 

It must have been a massive twister, it went up a field which is 100m wide and it schedded to oak trees on either side. Imagine walking the dog and one of those comes up behind you. I was in the area at the time and we expected rain but nothing on the scale we got.

[Chris Sheppard]

360 based harvester would be my suggestion, but 3.5 acres isn't a huge area though so might not be the most viable.

 

Someone would more than likely have paid for it standing before it blew down if it was reasonable timber - there's half a chance there's still enough reasonable timber in there for someone to do it in return for the timber.

 

Bad to say without actually being in among it.