Well a honest logger is kind of like looking for a virgin at the Mustang Ranch. (Old saying of my Grand Father)
1) Hire a professional Forrester. Make sure his is in no way affiliated with any loggers you get bids from.
2)IF your ground does not drain good than I would pay the extra to have it logged by horses. They make the recovery much easier. A skidder operator seems to be the rejects from the local mud bog racers. They could tear up a concrete runway with little effort.
3) Any road they "build" will just be pushed out with a dozer. They will not rock anything. If it is that muddy they just bring in a bigger dozer to drag the trucks in and out.
4) I have never seen them do any repair/maintenance on a driveway. IF it is soft they will just gut the loges out and leave you the mess.
5) The tops and any smaller ruined trees are usually just left where they fall.
My one Grand Father used to log with horses. I would help him drag logs. He did it on the shares. All the logs where stamped before they left the farm/woods. These numbers where matched at the saw mill. Then he got a settlement sheet listing every log and number. The mills that wanted to just pay a lump sum without a settle sheet did not get any logs he cut.
I am not sure if they even do the stamping and settlement sheets anymore.
Unless you have a lot of trees I would not allow them to be cut. Most of the loggers these days will just rape the woods with zero thought of any future growth. They will be long gone by then so they just worry about today.
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