About 15 years ago, I had all the large pine trees logged on my 20 acres. The log price on large Ponderosa pine was supposed to have been the best it EVER had been, and there was talk about the mill that handled the large (3 foot thick butts) logs was going to quit in the near future. So I got talked into having some guys with a skidder take the trees down and put them in a deck for logging trucks with self loaders to haul them to the mill.
They were supposed to do the limbing in only several spots and pile the slash for burning. When all was said and done, they just left the limbs and tops where they happened to fall. I worked part time for 2 years cleaning up my property. The trails the skidder dug are still there.
But the worst thing was that I only got about $7k after the loggers and haulers were paid. And that $7k came in a year that I had very high income because I retired from my career because of health reasons. I ended up paying a large share of the logging proceeds as income tax. I realize that was my fault for not planning my tax impact very well, but it all seemed like I wasted my big trees and was left with a he!! of a mess.
I was told that lots of the large trees were very mature and that they would not grow much larger, and might start dieing off. Maybe. And I was told of the high log prices offered then and that the mill might close.
If I had it to do over, I would not have cut a single tree. I didn"t make any money from the logging and had to do a whole lot of work to clean up the mess that wasn"t supposed to have ever been created.
I would think long and hard about how bad you want to tear up your place and how much you will NET from the logging. Good luck!
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