Types of Harvest
Marked Tree Selection, Patch Cuts, Diameter Limit By Species, Overstory Removals Clear Cuts
Marked Tree Selection
Trees to be harvested are marked with blue paint for removal.
Hemlock Thinning
Eastern White Pine Thinning
This particular woodlot was harvested leaving primarily red and sugar maple for a sugarbush maple syrup operation.
Northern Hardwood Thinning
Overstory Removal (OSR)
This silvicultural system is used to release abundant regeneration in the understory.
Clear Cut
Often done for the benefit of landowners to regain their views.
Harvest Preparation
Layout and Marking timber
Timber Harvest Layout
Significant property features are flagged in designated colors — their representations known to the logging contractor.
Visibly flag corners (three flags).
Flag existing survey pins to retain legal and historical landmarks.
250' & 75' Zoned Waterbodies and Wetlands (Orange and Blue)
Wet Area Buffers Flagged (Double Blue)
Brook Zones Flagged (Single Blue Centerline)
Boundary Lines Flagged (Single Pink)
Marking Wood
Unique to our standard of operation, we visibly mark harvestable timber on two sides…at the base and at breast height for the logging operators to clearly see. Thus the tree is visibly seen from any direction which produces a better end product. Sometimes wildlife trees are marked with a “W’ for retention.
Logging Variations and Forest Equipment
Done to your preference and according to your goals and objectives
Fully Mechanized Chipping & Tree Length Operations
In Woods Processing
Hand & Skidder Crews
Fully Mechanized Chipping and Tree Length Operations
Because this is a whole tree operation there is little debris left in the woods.
Ghosting - harvesting wood in between main skid trails and carrying the wood to fewer trails which allows for less disturbance of the forest floor.
Forest Equipment
Feller buncher - cuts and accumulates trees and puts them into bunches.
Six Wheeled Extended Grapple Skidder - drags bunches of trees from the woods to the landing.
Stroke de-limber rapidly removes tree limbs on landing.
Crane - processes the wood from tree length to various products on the landing.
Processed wood on the landing.
Crane feeding chipper with tops.
In Woods Processing
Trees are cut from the stump, processed into various product lengths, and then forwarded out to the landing.
Tracked processor with fixed head that cuts the tree from the stump, then carries the tree and processes it into merchantable lengths in the woods.
Forest Equipment
Feller Buncher - cuts and accumulates trees and puts them into bunches.
Forwarder - carries the processed wood out of the woods to the landing.
Tracked Dangle Head Processor - cuts trees to specific product lengths in the woods.
Wheeled Dangle Head Processor - cuts trees to product length in the woods as well as cut trees from the stump.
Hand & Skidder Crews
Trees to cut are marked with blue paint or a general prescription is given to logging operators as to what the landowner wants cut via diameter and species.
Harvested trees are laid down to be de-limbed by hand before being skidded to the landing by cable skidder.
Hand crew with grapple skidder.
Forest Equipment
Merchandising
We pride ourselves in generating the highest value product for the timber harvested.
Why spend the extra time to merchandise timber?
Whether it is slicer, rotary, or specialty veneer, sawlogs, mat logs, pallet logs, pulpwood or biomass chips, it is our goal for the landowner to earn the highest value for every product harvested.
Birdseye Maple
The bark peeled back reveals this "birdshot or eye" like pattern. The larger and more frequent the eyes the higher the value.
Notice all the white bicycle spokes or rays stemming from the bark to the heart. Each ray seen is one eye of the birdshot. The more rays the higher the value.
Curly Maple
Large Diameter High Quality Sawlog
