Your Questions, Answered
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We offer logging (from land clearing to low impact select harvests), sawmilling, kiln drying, and surfacing. We are one of the few vertically integrated businesses that offer custom services - we can harvest your trees and mill them into lumber for any of your building projects.
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Thanks to our selection of customized logging equipment, we can tackle a variety of niche timber harvests. We use:
A 14-ton excavator outfitted with a harvester head for felling trees from the safety of a cab. We can also switch over to a bucket for stumping or grading needs.
A forwarder for moving logs; this reduces ground impact compared to a conventional skidder.
A (relatively) small log loader that is capable of picking up an entire pine tree at once. We use this for more technical work if we need to pick trees up over existing barns / fences / chicken coops.
3-wheeled feller-buncher. This compact hot saw is great for efficiently managing small-diameter trees.
Chipper for chipping up tops and small trees. We prefer to leave this small wood onsite to maintain nutrient cycling but we can haul chips offsite as well.
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This depends on a number of variables: species, number of trees, location, quality, and current log markets.
We offer free estimates for all timber harvest inquiries.
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In New Hampshire, you need to file an Intent to Cut with the Town prior to conducting a timber harvest. A Report of Wood Cut is submitted for each Timber Tax fiscal year, which runs from April 1 - March 31. We work with the landowners to file paperwork.
Depending on the scope of your project, you may also need to obtain permits from the NH Department of Environmental Services.
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It depends on the tree! Diameter, height, crookedness, knots, and location (yard vs forest) all impact the volume of usable lumber.
We use the International Log Scale to measure the board foot amount of each log and we have 15 years of experience maximizing log volume (and grade) from standing timber.
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We do not. We find that it’s most efficient to have logs trucked to our mill - that way we can deal with all of the waste slab and sawdust and post-processing. Your lumber will get stacked neatly on sticks to air-dry prior to kiln drying and planing, resulting in a superior final product.
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Yes, you can!