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CesumPec
Member
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2011
- Messages
- 37
- Location
- Ocala National Forest, FL
- Tractor
- JCB 214 Loader BackHoe, Farm Tractor TBD
I'll support Flusher's and Soundguy's recommendations. After looking at your pics, your trees are not quite as massive as I had imagined, and maybe the attack of the killer D8's isn't really needed. A big old TLB plus Soundguy's big Ford, or the equivalent, would probably do wonders. And a good "go-to" tractor, as Flusher puts it, will be extremely useful for general daily activity. You'll still be spending a lot of quality time out there, I imagine.
No, most pines down here are harvested for pulp wood and are cut when they are well under 12". There is a paper plant not too far from here that I'm told makes toilet paper. Most people aren't willing to wait for the pines to get to saw timber size, about 14" or larger at breast height, even though the saw timber sells for near about 10X pulp wood. I can afford to wait because the trees don't really consume much space or resources when you're grazing cattle under them.