Logger walked off the job yesterday.

[jacain]

Sorry you have had so much trouble but loggers like pavers can have a bad name. Wish I knew more about logging but that is one of many things I know very little about. By the way you have a very nice tractor

Sorry to quote you again, but he does have a very nice tractor! Where in SouthWestern Virginia are you located, btw?

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I'm in Chester. But my farm is in Albemarle county, in Crozet.

 

[Buppies]

Sorry to quote you again, but he does have a very nice tractor! Where in SouthWestern Virginia are you located, btw?

Roanoke is closest city live in small community south west of Roanoke

 

[Industrial Toys]

I hear these stories again and again and again. I guess it's a crappy business and too many young people don't have any work ethics. One friend hired a new guy in his shop. Second week he never showed up. Third week he returned as if nothng happened and was asked about it. Well, he apparently just didn't need money that week!

When we had our pre commercial thinning done on our pines a few years ago, it was a fairly big outfit, but they were here as much as not, and weather was not a factor. I couldn't understand how they could have a million bucks of equipment sitting idle.

 

[check]

Well, I have a big outfit coming to the cottage to take down a dozen big poplars and 2 big Birch trees, several of which are threatening the boat house. (Had a Beaver attack last fall, but I got to them before they actually downed the trees completely, and I limited to damage to only two trees that they took all the way down and hit my trailer.)

We will see how these seasoned professional Arborists do. I just want them to put the trees down, and I will clean up and buck the trees later myself, because I can. It's just that several of the big trees are leaners, leaning in the wrong direction. So, I wanted someone with all the right equipment, experience, ropes, and pulleys, who knows exactly how to do it with the right amount of force on the ropes, in the right direction, and with the right kind of insurance, AND Worker's Compensation (just in case).

 

[Stick895]

jacain and WoodChuckDad, I had like 25 acres near Pocahontas Park logged last year. I was real happy with the forester, the company who bought and the guy who logged it. I don't know if they could help you out but Id be glad to give you their information.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

jacain and WoodChuckDad, I had like 25 acres near Pocahontas Park logged last year. I was real happy with the forester, the company who bought and the guy who logged it. I don't know if they could help you out but Id be glad to give you their information.

I doubt they would be doing a small job like my place, that far off. Talked to forester today, and another logger is supposed to meet me out there this weekend. I drove out there this morning to check to see that he had not gone back on the property and harvested any more trees and get a look at what I am being left with. It's a heck of a mess. And his equipment is still there. That doesn't sit well with me, but he hasn't moved anything else off of it. I talked to a few neighbors while I was there trying to get a heads up if he comes back and fires up the machines.

 

[dickfoster]

I doubt they would be doing a small job like my place, that far off. Talked to forester today, and another logger is supposed to meet me out there this weekend. I drove out there this morning to check to see that he had not gone back on the property and harvested any more trees and get a look at what I am being left with. It's a heck of a mess. And his equipment is still there. That doesn't sit well with me, but he hasn't moved anything else off of it. I talked to a few neighbors while I was there trying to get a heads up if he comes back and fires up the machines.

Well if you get hard up to find someone I could ask my uncle who has or had a land survey business out of Nellysford in Nelson county. He knows folks all around that area and has lived there his whole life. If there's someone clearing land worth knowing, it's likely he knows them.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

If he knows the loggers in Nelson then he probably knows this guy.

 

[jacain]

jacain and WoodChuckDad, I had like 25 acres near Pocahontas Park logged last year. I was real happy with the forester, the company who bought and the guy who logged it. I don't know if they could help you out but Id be glad to give you their information.

That would be great! Feel free to pm me his info. I would like to have a couple/few come out and assess everything.

Btw, does anyone know what the minimum acerage required for applying for tax reduction/relief on property designated for timber? I need to do some surveying to see just how big my pine stand is. Otoh, there is a forestry office right on rt 10 on my way to work. I've been meaning to stop in there and get some info.