How to sell pine trees from your property
HOW TO MAKE MONEY on YOUR HOMESTEAD - Selling Timber
there are many videos on YouTube that
will show you how to make money on your
homestead today we're going to show you
one way that I hope you pay the mortgage
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timber harvesting is just one way that
you can make money on your homestead
that will bring in a sizable amount of
cash
if you have enough timber for them to
haul off now we have about 10 acres that
they were able to harvest and that
translated to a few thousand dollars so
if you have timber on your property and
you can get a hold of small tract or
even large tract loggers you can make a
sizable amount of money just for having
trees on your property
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so far they've done one tree it's gone
in the direction that they wanted right
now they're putting some heavy-duty rope
around the tree so that they can pull it
with a skid steer which is parked about
200 yards away what they're going to do
is they're going to tie that rope to the
skid steer and pull it ever so slightly
as the loggers underneath the tree
cutting it with the chainsaw
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so in addition to being able to harvest
your own timber on your property this is
uh there's a pretty good way to get rid
of trees that you don't want and not
have to pay anybody to do it
in fact you're getting paid to get rid
of your trees so if you have a lot of
big trees around your house we're in the
piney woods so we have a lot of huge old
pine trees that can bring in a good bit
amount of a good bit amount of money so
instead of having to pay somebody to
take down trees around your property you
can actually make some money to get
people to take down the trees around
your property
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if I was to give you any more advice on
processing timber on your land it would
be to go through a forestry service and
have someone come out and just really
walk you through the process it's really
important that you know who you're
working with make sure that they're
insured bonded licensed all that good
stuff you don't want to just hire any
old Joe on Craigslist who says that
they're a logger you want to make sure
that they are credible they have a
reputation and a good way to do that is
to consult with your local forestry
services someone will come out generally
free I'm assuming I didn't do that but
they'll come out and walk you through
what you have on your property how much
it should be valued at and also call
around to the mills and see what they're
pricing out lumber for generally
speaking you get paid two ways when a
logger comes out or a timber buyer comes
out you get a lump sum or they do it by
the tonnage what that means is that
they're hauling off all the you timber
they're taking it to the mill they weigh
it they get a ticket and it lets you
know how much timber that they process
for that load most logging trucks will
take anywhere from 15 to 20 tons of
timber so depending on the price per ton
let's say it's $35 you do the math
you've got 60 pounds worth or 60 tons
worth of timber what about $35 you know
the loggers take their cut the timber
buyer takes their cut and then you get
the remainder of that so it becomes a
pretty lucrative enterprise if you have
enough land and if you have enough
timber for it to make sense so I hope
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hey guys something I forgot to mention
I'm editing the video right now and I
just noticed that I forgot to mention it
you just need to really really provide
yourselves are a huge mess that's all I
got to say be prepared for a huge mess a
good large logging company will come out
and clean up behind themselves but if
you're going to go for a smaller
operation that is strictly there to get
the timber and haul out just be prepared
for a mess
