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Thank you for putting this all together for us small landowners And putting a cords or tons button in here in canada everthing is sold by the ton And when you talk cords i have figure out how many tandam loads it woud be at 10 cords per truck and 2 tandams per log truck at 40 tons each it gets confusing 😂😂😂
This idea is sort of how I am imagining operating my forest. Slightly larger scale but something like 20 acres every twenty years. Douglas fir with some non-merch hardwood. Would it be Reasonable to do something like 20 different micro clear cuts each about an acre? They would be spread out across our 330 acre Ranch. The thought Behind it is that it would make the timber cutting easier than a select cut but spread out the damage more than a single twenty acre cut.
Yeah, that's absolutely reasonable, and a system that I think can work well. You would have to design the harvest well to ensure the patches can be accessed easily and efficiently, but that's not too difficult. Im drafting out a video covering that sort of thing in the next few weeks.
I tried something similar to what you're describing and long term it didn't go well. The thought was to find a 1-2 acre area that really needed clearcutting due to maturity, poor stand composition, whatever, and clearcut that small area. For illustration, let's say it's a 1.5 acre clearcut and it was square, so it was 255' x 255'. (I'm being a little too precise here, but bear with me) The problem came when 10-20 years later you go to that 1.5 acre clearcut and there's little or no desirable regeneration in the perimeter area because quality regeneration needs light on the ground. The outside 50' of the clearcut essentially had no desirable regeneration. The outside 50' perimeter is almost exactly 0.5 acres, meaning one third of the original 1.5 clearcut acres were a dud for regeneration. But it gets even worse. When cutting the adjacent, uncut trees, those trees were now leaning into the clearcut. Loggers sent one tall tree after another into the clearcut, absolutely hammering the regeneration out to 60-90' from the perimeter. That meant that the regeneration in about 0.75 acres of the original 1.5 acres was wiped out in a later, adjacent harvest. When you need to clearcut, do it in larger blocks. My experience in central hardwoods, anyway. Good luck.
@@marknussbaum8394 It's actually surprising to me that you had more problems with the outside perimeter. Usually those are the more heavily regenerated do to what we call the "edge effect"--exposure to seed drop from mature adjacent stands. As for damage to regen, that's always a problem to a degree, but Id argue you generally have less issues in that regard with clearcutting vs, say, a selection cut. In any case, these are details that shouldnt be ignored.
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Thank you for putting this all together for us small landowners
And putting a cords or tons button in here in canada everthing is sold by the ton
And when you talk cords i have figure out how many tandam loads it woud be at 10 cords per truck and 2 tandams per log truck at 40 tons each it gets confusing 😂😂😂
Another name for this a "Normal Forest " IFS forest estate planner well done
Looks like a great tool.
This idea is sort of how I am imagining operating my forest. Slightly larger scale but something like 20 acres every twenty years. Douglas fir with some non-merch hardwood. Would it be Reasonable to do something like 20 different micro clear cuts each about an acre? They would be spread out across our 330 acre Ranch. The thought Behind it is that it would make the timber cutting easier than a select cut but spread out the damage more than a single twenty acre cut.
Yeah, that's absolutely reasonable, and a system that I think can work well. You would have to design the harvest well to ensure the patches can be accessed easily and efficiently, but that's not too difficult. Im drafting out a video covering that sort of thing in the next few weeks.
I tried something similar to what you're describing and long term it didn't go well. The thought was to find a 1-2 acre area that really needed clearcutting due to maturity, poor stand composition, whatever, and clearcut that small area. For illustration, let's say it's a 1.5 acre clearcut and it was square, so it was 255' x 255'. (I'm being a little too precise here, but bear with me) The problem came when 10-20 years later you go to that 1.5 acre clearcut and there's little or no desirable regeneration in the perimeter area because quality regeneration needs light on the ground. The outside 50' of the clearcut essentially had no desirable regeneration. The outside 50' perimeter is almost exactly 0.5 acres, meaning one third of the original 1.5 clearcut acres were a dud for regeneration. But it gets even worse. When cutting the adjacent, uncut trees, those trees were now leaning into the clearcut. Loggers sent one tall tree after another into the clearcut, absolutely hammering the regeneration out to 60-90' from the perimeter. That meant that the regeneration in about 0.75 acres of the original 1.5 acres was wiped out in a later, adjacent harvest. When you need to clearcut, do it in larger blocks. My experience in central hardwoods, anyway. Good luck.
@@marknussbaum8394 It's actually surprising to me that you had more problems with the outside perimeter. Usually those are the more heavily regenerated do to what we call the "edge effect"--exposure to seed drop from mature adjacent stands.
As for damage to regen, that's always a problem to a degree, but Id argue you generally have less issues in that regard with clearcutting vs, say, a selection cut.
In any case, these are details that shouldnt be ignored.