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The Timberland Investor
Приєднався 28 лют 2022
Dedicated to helping woodland owners big and small responsibly and sustainably manage their forests for wildlife, recreation, timber, and profit. By showcasing the opportunities in timberland investment, we hope to inspire entrepreneurship across rural America and beyond.
10 Things to Consider When Buying Forest Land
Buying forest land isn't like buying any other forms of real estate. There are special considerations that may not be so obvious unless you have experience. Here is what to consider.
0:00 - What Are You Buying?
2:59 - Regulations and Taxes
4:35 - HBU
6:10 - Standing Timber
7:33 - Site, Soils, and Slopes
9:02 - Terrain
12:00 - Roads
13:55 - Proximity to Markets
16:06 - Other Characteristics
17:13 - Your Vision
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0:00 - What Are You Buying?
2:59 - Regulations and Taxes
4:35 - HBU
6:10 - Standing Timber
7:33 - Site, Soils, and Slopes
9:02 - Terrain
12:00 - Roads
13:55 - Proximity to Markets
16:06 - Other Characteristics
17:13 - Your Vision
🌲Get my book for FREE: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management
🍁Join SilviCultural: silvicultural.com/sign-up/
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The Easiest Way to Navigate With a Compass
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Despite being one of the most important outdoors tools, a lot of people are intimidated by compass use, but there is need. You can master compass navigation with nothing but the basics. Get your free DIY forest management guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ Join the SilviCultural for a lifetime mapping solution: silvicultural.com/sign-up/ ...
Is Fast-Growing Wood Inferior to Old-Growth?
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Popular belief suggests that wood grown from intensive silvicultural regimes (thinning and planting) result in weak or otherwise poor-quality wood. It is nothing but a myth, but it is based on a real observation. 0:00 - Intro 2:17 - Quality Across Species 4:18 - Quality Across Ages 7:04 - Why Is Modern Wood Worse? Get your free DIY forest management guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-...
How Thinning Can Ruin Your Hardwoods
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While traditionally associated with softwoods, thinning can be a great prescription for quality hardwoods too, but you have to be careful! Done improperly, a thinning can ruin your wood's value. Get your free DIY forest management guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ Join the SilviCultural community and take the silviculture course: silvicu...
The Problem With Forest Carbon Credits
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Talk of forest carbon credit markets has been everywhere lately. Are they a real opportunity for landowners, or just another clever market "innovation" that won't stand the test of time? 0:00 - What are Carbon Credits? 3:19 - These Aren't For You 6:39 - Family Forest Carbon Program 9:12 - How Much Carbon Is in a Forest? 11:19 - Who Is This Attracting? 16:11 - Carbon in Forest Products 18:48 - H...
What's the Financial Return on Planting Trees?
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Planting is one of the most popular silvicultural treatments due to its high volume yields, but do the financial yields match up? 0:00 - Setup 7:03 - Expenses 13:49 - Revenues 16:06 - Results Join the SilviCultural community and get the analysis tool: silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Get your free DIY forest management guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-ma...
Creating a Forest Management Plan Using SilviCultural
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE: silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Today I am using the SilviCultural mapping system to create and map a management plan for a multigenerational farm and forest in New Hampshire. 0:00 - Intro 1:32 - Boundary Line 4:04 - Front Area 10:17 - Sugar Bush 13:45 - Mixedwood Poles 15:15 - Shelterwood Cuts 20:33 - Hemlock 26:44 - Feature Delineation 34:57 - Past Treatm...
I Built a Syndicate for the Forest Economy
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Join SilviCultural for FREE today: silvicultural.com/sign-up/ After 8 months of work, I'm happy to unveil SilviCultural, a syndicate of all actors in the forest economy. Currently, the platform combines social media functionality and community with a GIS system, growth modeling tools, financial analysis tools, and courses to create a means for for the forest economy to connect in a meaningful w...
How Productive Are Portable Sawmills?
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ If you haven't used a portable sawmill extensively, you may wonder how many board feet per hour you can actually mill using one. Obviously, there is no easy answer, but I wanted to try a little experiment. 0:00 - The Exper...
The Small-Scale Industrial Revolution
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ I have a lot of thoughts to share about my portable sawmill, only some of which are about the sawmill itself. We are living in an era of radical decentralization of productive capacity, and the implications are massive. 0:...
Learning the Ropes on an Off-Road Sawmill
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ There is a learning curve to sawmilling, that is for sure. But after some ruined logs and trial and error, I think I am getting the hang of it. Get your free DIY forest management guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-re...
Using a Skid Cone to Move Logs for a Cabin
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ After deciding my forwarding trailer lacked the agility needed for an effective small scale harvest, I'm experimenting with using my tractor to forward smaller amounts of wood to *hypothetical* points along a main trail sp...
Why I'm Replacing My Logging Trailer With a Piece of Plastic
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ After a few years of playing with my Chinese forwarding trailer, I've decided to switch up my operations. Here is why. 0:00 - My reasoning 2:12 - The Problems 6:08 - My Solution
How Trees Can Think Without a Brain
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ Trees have no brains, but they have a way of dynamically adapting to their environment through energy allocation. Understanding this simple mechanism is crucial for successful forest management.
Whole Tree and Cut-to-Length Logging
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Join the SilviCultural community for FREE silvicultural.com/sign-up/ Free Forestry Guide: thetimberlandinvestor.com/how-to-read-your-forest-an-intro-to-diy-forest-management/ While harvest systems utilizing a chainsaw can widely vary, mechanized systems tend to be more standardized and have two main categories: whole tree and cut-to-length systems. Each has a distinct advantage and disadvantage...
Did My Woodlot Survive Hurricane-Force Winds?
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Did My Woodlot Survive Hurricane-Force Winds?
Are Timber Values Higher Now Than 100 Years Ago?
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Are Timber Values Higher Now Than 100 Years Ago?
Recent Sawmill Closures Foreshadow a Larger Problem
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Recent Sawmill Closures Foreshadow a Larger Problem
How to Turn a Forest Into Generational Wealth
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How to Turn a Forest Into Generational Wealth
How Risky Is Investing in Forest Land?
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How Risky Is Investing in Forest Land?
The Advantage of Being a Small Forest Landowner
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The Advantage of Being a Small Forest Landowner
Timber Harvest Trails Are Destroying Your Forest
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Timber Harvest Trails Are Destroying Your Forest
Timber Harvesting Should Not Be Sustainable
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Timber Harvesting Should Not Be Sustainable
How to Make Your Forest's Growth Rate Explode
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How to Make Your Forest's Growth Rate Explode
Why You Should Buy Young, Cutover Forest Land
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Why You Should Buy Young, Cutover Forest Land
The Miracle of Serotinous Pinecones
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The Miracle of Serotinous Pinecones
My Ecoworks chainsaw started doing this on the second cut. I thought all the smoke was coming from the motor. But then I read somewhere that it’s just the bar cutting wood and was normal. Then it started throwing sparks, which really scared me, especially as we’re in a drought situation and burn ban here. I’ve been checking the oil, but maybe it’s clogged. I think it’s time to take it to a repair shop. I don’t know why this is happening on a nearly brand new chainsaw that really hasn’t gotten that much use.
Thats not a fully correct interpretation about production. For instance a wide band sawmill can with adequate horsepower can go through alarge or small log lots faster due to the fact that if there is enough horsepower to witthstand cant crowd the band with fast carriage travel . That doesn’t include the speed of a double cut sawmill band cuts both ways nearly eliminating travel speed. Returning to the cutting position .
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! 👏👏👏
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Finally have a few hours to myself to catch up on all the videos I haven't been able to binge of yours! Loving all the content, thank you. :)
works great!
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.
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
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is it because the machine is new to you as in the learning curve or lack of hydraulic power as to only one function at a time.
Definitely a learning curve. Once you get used to the controls, you can actuate two cylinders at once pretty easily. I havent reached a limit to the hydraulic power for my purposes. Keep in mind I can control the hydraulic flow, and I have it pretty restricted here to keep the motions smooth, especially as I was learning.
I too am older not viable and not growing fast - hey ! Wait one minute's , define waste again slowly...you stay in maine plz ...you got some funny ideas
Question: I’ve noticed a significant percentage of my otherwise defect free Red Oaks have a split in the bark at the base of the tree extending three or four feet up the trunk. What causes this and what how badly is this going to impact marketability.
Another great video. It would be interesting to see one on timber theft. Eight or nine years ago I bought an additional 50 acre woodlot near 14:37 my property in Maine. Upon running survey lines I determined that it had been encroached on and timber harvested illegally by several different loggers working neighboring properties. Whereas, I didn’t own the property at the time , I didn’t have a claim against the neighbors who at least in one case legitimately was confused about the boundaries. In the other case I’d bet the logger saw a stand of large pines and figured out of state landowner would never know.
I had heard too many horror stories here in Florida ...has scared me from hiring. Plus invasive plant worries transplants from their equipment.
Good info! And the program may not really work....But what is wrong with working class taking the credits from rich corporatiins to keep their forest and all the wildlife, if the goal is to let their forest become healhier?
Will the burning pine cone explode? Will it fly 20 meters away? Will it cause another fire?
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2 QUESTIONS: 1) Would you please consider getting your book published as a hard copy? 2) What is the most profitable fast growth tree for WV. We are considering black or honey locust for fodder for our animals, but what should we be cultivating for future harvest?
I would think just as prevalent as the myth of pine firewood being more dangerous, yes? TFP!
Great presentation Zach. Amazed again by your knowledge of science, math, religion, history, psychology and whatever else I forgot. Do you have an Elon IQ? Without blowing up the internet, I would love to have a little more of your thoughts on the environmental impact of the corn ethanol industry.
Well...I'm another commenter with over 40 plus years in the world of traditional woodworking (et al professions) that also has worked as a Sawyer, Arborist, and I'm still a traditional Timberwright who sadly gave up on debating folks regarding this topic unless they are one of my students or giving a client bad information....OLD GROWTH...IS NOT STRONGER...at all...PERIOD...!!!...It can be denser, and it can be more rot resistant in some species...It can also have other modules of resistance from a engineering perspective depending on how it is milled, processed and depending on species. This topic goes along with the nonsense that trees are cut down in winter because they have less sap which is also too common myth often repeated even in books by "experts" (???)...Thanks for a great and informative video...let the debate comments begin...for all the "trolls" and armchair ultracrepidarian experts bond to say otherwise...LOL!!!
Thank you, will try to figure this out! I find my compass jumps in all directions on my land. On related topic, maybe not relevant to your great site, NYS great GIS Lidar data with contour lines at 2 feet in elevation. Is there a way to create a Geo PDF that I could use in Avenza? Thanks for the great info.
You'd have to do it the technical way with a traditional GIS system like QGIS. I'm looking to bring on LiDAR-derived data onto SilviCultural, but it's not my priority project right now.
@@thetimberlandinvestor thank you. Very useful channel.
Very nice! Thank you.
Thank you from Alabama!!!
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You guys are the terrorists of the forests.
Fallout New Vegas certainly is a videogame.
App not on the App Store?????
Excellent blend of genuine knowledge, passion and insight.
At 2:15 ae we getting Little Mermaided? Mermaided, yeah. Cuz that illustration sure looks like 2 genders and their shared butt.
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I’ve heard this strategy summarized as “worst first”
Wow man, incredible video and break down of a subject not very well understood. As the owner of 330 acres of mixed douglas fir hardwood timberland, I appreciate your channel. Keep up the good work!
Show us a decent tree
Firewood all the way up
I suppose the premium that lumber companies get for higher density wood (tighter rings) is based on a misunderstanding. Areas of the Province of BC with high, dry, cold climates tend to produce denser, stronger, more valuable softwoods. www.google.com/search?q=Effects+of+wood+density+on+value+chilcotin&client=ms-unknown&sca_esv=8e5d42b73fd5d89d&ei=T-wLZ7u4Kri90PEP3dnYoQk&oq=Effects+of+wood+density+on+value+chilcotin&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIipFZmZlY3RzIG9mIHdvb2QgZGVuc2l0eSBvbiB2YWx1ZSBjaGlsY290aW4yBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUiPaVDZCFiaYnAHeACQAQCYAZoBoAGvD6oBBDEuMTa4AQPIAQD4AQGYAhegAskQwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICBRAhGJ8FwgIHECEYoAEYCpgDAIgGAZAGCJIHBDcuMTagB-VD&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
Actually The headline should say "How NOT thinning WILL ruin your Hardwoods"
You can still get quality hardwoods from not thinning, it will just be slower. However, thinning at the wrong time will ensure none of your hardwoods will have a nice, clean stem.
@@thetimberlandinvestor When talking about broadleaves / hardwoods, the rule is that the with of the ring, plays no or little role for the technically quality of the wood. All of us should remember, that greed is the way to poverty. When tending a young stand of broad leaves, you should keep a high number of steems, to ensure, that branches are killed by the shadow from neighboring trees. In general you should aim for a clear bole, length as 1/3 of the total height of the mature tree. When we have a clear bole of this length - (Could be helped with artificial pruning of branches). From here you just thin hard / strong. In the first thinning I would aim for a remaining number of trees, not bigger than twice the number of trees to be clear cut in the end. Some will argue, that you will lose increment, by thinning this radical. Thats not case. The effect on the increment is that your primary trees - the one destined for a sawmill, each and every on will grow a little more. "Surplus" increment will happen in the ´2 story. The 2 story, should be tended by regularly harvest for energy wood. The life of the stand could be described as early, no thinning only taking wrong spiecies, and distorted trees. When trees has grown 5 meters higher, that the wanted bole, you start thinning for real. If needed pruning will happen now. For light demanding species like Quercus sp. we would aim for 50 trees/ ha ind the end (DBH 60 cm), meaning that our early thinning would aim at 100 trees/ha. For shadow tolerant species as Fagus sp. we will aim for a end stock of 100 trees/ ha, (now DBH 50 cm) meaning we will thin for 200 trees trees/ha. The difference between the end number and the number we start thinning for, will become small logs, with a fairly good pay. But remember quality - Straight and no knots is what makes the price.
As a carpenter, its been my observation over the past 40 years that the tighter grain from slow, old growth is stronger than faster growing trees that have larger growth rings
I don't doubt it, but that's because the faster growing wood has been harvested from younger trees.
@ 2:40 The red maple looks to have a lightning scar. It appears to have healed above about 8 ft. Other explanation?
All they want on our property is pulp wood, we have hardwoods but they are difficult to get to.
Very insightful. Great explanation on age, growth, density and timber quality
Your channel has been a great refresher and expansion on what i learned in school. I mostly worked in urban settings and ecosystem restoration after graduation but I'm starting to incorporate more traditional forestry work as well. You've been a great help!
The stand is a variable cost. If you sell more lemonade, overhead is reduced. Lemons are a fixed cost, they cost the same amount with every glass sold, unless you're able to buy in volume at a discount.
No, you have that wrong. Fixed and variable costs refer to nominal costs, not normalized on a per unit basis. You only have to buy the stand once, so its fixed. The expense of lemons will always increase with production, even if the per unit cost goes down, so it is variable.
@@thetimberlandinvestor No, you have that completely backwards. A fixed cost is the same no matter how many units are produced. The raw ingredients will be the same on every unit. A variable cost is one that can be divided among all units produced. If you produce one glass of lemonade, the total cost of the stand+ is the overhead for that glass. If you produce two glasses of lemonade, the cost of the stand, per glass, is reduced by half. That's a variable cost per unit. The price of the lemon is the same on every glass produced. That's a fixed cost per unit.
No, it has nothing to do with per unit cost. It's all about nominal cashflow. You can google this pretty easily.
@@thetimberlandinvestor Okay, per unit of cash flow. The larger the cash flow, and the longer the flow, the smaller the cost of the capital investment. There's nothing "fixed" about it. If you leave the machine idle, and produce no cash flow, the cost is fixed at 100%. As you produce income, the cost is proportionally reduced with each additional dollar. This cost is only fixed if you never use the machine.
Fuel would be a fixed cost, if the price doesn't change.