Dad just had 40 acres done. It could have gone worse, could have gone alot better. The contract was so short it was almost a joke. We added a good bit to the contract. Here are a couple points. -We made them cut the tops up so that nothing was standing more than 5 ft high. Otherwise you can have giant tree tops hanging that can fall on you at a later date. -We gave them 3 months to get the work done. Their contract didnt have a settime frame for completion. -When they say "restore roads" it means whatever they can do with a dozer. They logged 40 acres over about 2.5 weeks. It took the dozer operator a sat morning to do the restoration work. -Make it know that you wont tolerate trash left anywhere. Our guys left their bar oil jugs,lunch trash, and grease gun tubes right where they were done with them... -If you are at all fussy prepare to do some restoration work yourself because fighting to get the loggers to restore it how you want it isnt worth the hassle. I rented a tracked skidsteer to do the work. If I had hired it out I probably would have had 10% of the logging money spent on restoration. -I agree that you should get an independant forestor to evaluate it. We didnt, and it was a mess. The forrestor said it was the loggers problem. The loggers passed the blame to the truckers etc etc. A giant game of finger pointing...
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Today's Featured Article - Usin Your Implements: Bucket Loader - by Curtis Von Fange. Introduction: Dad was raised during the depression years of the thirties. As a kid he worked part time on a farm in Kansas doing many of the manual chores. Some of the more successful farmers of that day had a new time saving device called a tractor. It increased the farm productivity and, in general, made life easier because more work could be done with this 'mechanical beast'. My dad dreamed that some day he would have his own tractor with every implement he could get. When he rea
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