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I wish I had all this information four years ago… in a way we got lucky, but certainly some of the issues you talk about seem familiar by now. Would I still buy our land? Absolutely! But I would have gone into it with more realistic expectations. Excellent video, thank you! 👏👏👏
Wow, I was just thinking about asking you for a video like this. I’m definitely looking for hobby/generational. I’d like to find a parcel I can pull firewood and my own lumber from and slowly replace those trees with something that will be a great asset to pass on when I’m gone.
I’m from New Hampshire and you are correct. It is called “current use”. Property must be 10 acres or larger. If someone plans on purchasing 10 acres of raw land and building a home on it, one acre would need to be removed from the 10 making it only 9 acres. So that would not qualify for current use.
Wooded land tends to be rocky, which is why it wasn't turned into farmland to begin with. So if you want to do agriculture with it then you want to take that into consideration. It's not impossible to use it for agriculture, it just will have more limited possibilities and will take more work to improve it for agricultural use.
ooo please share a video about the cable logging systems in mexico! are they similar to the cable systems in the pacific northwest or is it a small scale logging system? i have a small woodlot with steep hollows so i'm gonna have to get creative. i have a portable winch but i've been curious if a cable system would work for a small scale operation...i'm not an engineer so i can't think of anything that would work ps very informative video, thanks!
I bought 3 pieces of property sarting when i was 20. For timber. 80 acres in B.C., Canada. During Vietnam, ya. 1972 45 acres of pasture and woods western Washington, doug fir, cedar. 1980 20 acres western washington hakf timber.2009 1) do not buy where soil is shallow, drainage suspect. You are better off buying less land that has perfect soil. ...i was young when i got a great deal on 45 acres. The soil was to wet , slowed timber down. Produced bad garden crops additionally. The 20 acre piece was deep soil , called red clay bybthe county-- it was wrongo-- the soil coukd take 2 inches of rain and be tillable in 2 days. Gravity septic system. PLUS .the timber company was set to log on my old fenceline..i asked the to survey it...i paid half $ 189 bucks in 2010. The fence line was off by 75 feet fot 700 plus feet in my FAVOR. I got 75 big douglas firs and more land $ 189 bucks ya. To recap ...if you buy old time property the fence line is probably wrong...get it surveyed. If you can dig down at least 8 feet and not hit grey clay... thats a plus. Remember soil and water are crucial if youvare tryin to build a legacy holding. Fat finger spelling errirs
Don't buy land in winter, when the ground is frozen and covered in snow, you might be buying a swamp. Also don't buy a piece that was planted as a mono culture.
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I wish I had all this information four years ago… in a way we got lucky, but certainly some of the issues you talk about seem familiar by now. Would I still buy our land? Absolutely! But I would have gone into it with more realistic expectations.
Excellent video, thank you! 👏👏👏
Wow, I was just thinking about asking you for a video like this. I’m definitely looking for hobby/generational. I’d like to find a parcel I can pull firewood and my own lumber from and slowly replace those trees with something that will be a great asset to pass on when I’m gone.
I’m from New Hampshire and you are correct. It is called “current use”. Property must be 10 acres or larger. If someone plans on purchasing 10 acres of raw land and building a home on it, one acre would need to be removed from the 10 making it only 9 acres. So that would not qualify for current use.
Same in PA. Just named as Curtilage. And hope you have a larger lot for less impact. Say 25 acres.
Wooded land tends to be rocky, which is why it wasn't turned into farmland to begin with. So if you want to do agriculture with it then you want to take that into consideration. It's not impossible to use it for agriculture, it just will have more limited possibilities and will take more work to improve it for agricultural use.
ooo please share a video about the cable logging systems in mexico! are they similar to the cable systems in the pacific northwest or is it a small scale logging system? i have a small woodlot with steep hollows so i'm gonna have to get creative. i have a portable winch but i've been curious if a cable system would work for a small scale operation...i'm not an engineer so i can't think of anything that would work
ps very informative video, thanks!
I bought 3 pieces of property sarting when i was 20. For timber.
80 acres in B.C., Canada. During Vietnam, ya. 1972
45 acres of pasture and woods western Washington, doug fir, cedar. 1980
20 acres western washington hakf timber.2009
1) do not buy where soil is shallow, drainage suspect.
You are better off buying less land that has perfect soil.
...i was young when i got a great deal on 45 acres. The soil was to wet , slowed timber down. Produced bad garden crops additionally. The 20 acre piece was deep soil , called red clay bybthe county-- it was wrongo-- the soil coukd take 2 inches of rain and be tillable in 2 days. Gravity septic system.
PLUS .the timber company was set to log on my old fenceline..i asked the to survey it...i paid half $ 189 bucks in 2010. The fence line was off by 75 feet fot 700 plus feet in my FAVOR. I got 75 big douglas firs and more land $ 189 bucks ya.
To recap ...if you buy old time property the fence line is probably wrong...get it surveyed.
If you can dig down at least 8 feet and not hit grey clay... thats a plus.
Remember soil and water are crucial if youvare tryin to build a legacy holding.
Fat finger spelling errirs
Me and my buddy have been buying vacant land at tax sales so far we’ve got beavers moving in to two of our lots 😅
Albeit we haven’t been buying for timber , maybe in the future. We’re in NS.
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Don't buy land in winter, when the ground is frozen and covered in snow, you might be buying a swamp.
Also don't buy a piece that was planted as a mono culture.
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