JoseCuervo
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Can anybody help me with the conversion from Tons to Board feet? My guess is $25/ton is a $1000 per Logging Truck Load. Am I close?
Hey Paul, what are you paying for framing lumber these days??? And is that Canada or US lumber?
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Trees downed in fire season sold to highest bidders
By MICHAEL JAMISON
The Missoulian
KALISPELL – When firefighters took to the woods last summer, they were joined by loggers, who helped in the effort by cutting down trees to create fire lines and to remove hazardous trees that might fall across roads.
On Monday, the Forest Service sold another batch of that downed timber, 3,426 tons of trees dropped during work on the Robert fire.
It was the Flathead National Forest’s fifth sale of timber cut during the fire season and went to Northend Timber, located west of Whitefish. The company bid $32.81 per ton for the timber.
The Flathead’s first sale of wildfire-related timber was made Oct. 28, with Seeley Lake’s Pyramid Lumber bidding $28.78 a ton for 3,349 tons of trees downed on the Crazy Horse fire. Work on that sale is already complete.
The Ball Creek fire, located on the western shore of Hungry Horse Reservoir, produced some 581 tons of timber, bought on Oct. 30 by Columbia Falls-based Stoltze Lumber Co. for $25.55 per ton. Work is in progress there.
Timber giant Plum Creek Timber Co. outbid the competition for logs cut during efforts to contain the Wedge fire, taking in 4,968 tons at $30.60 per ton. The fire burned just south of the Canadian border, on both sides of the Glacier National Park border.
And two days before Thanksgiving, Plum Creek bought another 4,104 tons for $19.49 a ton, clearing up trees cut along the reservoir during the Blackfoot fire.
Forest officials expect work will begin soon on hauling logs to the mill from the Wedge, Robert and Blackfoot sales. Additional trees will be sold from the Blackfoot and Robert fire areas by spring.
The trees, forest officials said, are easy to harvest, as most were cut alongside roads and remain neatly stacked not far from the roadways.
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Hey Paul, what are you paying for framing lumber these days??? And is that Canada or US lumber?
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Trees downed in fire season sold to highest bidders
By MICHAEL JAMISON
The Missoulian
KALISPELL – When firefighters took to the woods last summer, they were joined by loggers, who helped in the effort by cutting down trees to create fire lines and to remove hazardous trees that might fall across roads.
On Monday, the Forest Service sold another batch of that downed timber, 3,426 tons of trees dropped during work on the Robert fire.
It was the Flathead National Forest’s fifth sale of timber cut during the fire season and went to Northend Timber, located west of Whitefish. The company bid $32.81 per ton for the timber.
The Flathead’s first sale of wildfire-related timber was made Oct. 28, with Seeley Lake’s Pyramid Lumber bidding $28.78 a ton for 3,349 tons of trees downed on the Crazy Horse fire. Work on that sale is already complete.
The Ball Creek fire, located on the western shore of Hungry Horse Reservoir, produced some 581 tons of timber, bought on Oct. 30 by Columbia Falls-based Stoltze Lumber Co. for $25.55 per ton. Work is in progress there.
Timber giant Plum Creek Timber Co. outbid the competition for logs cut during efforts to contain the Wedge fire, taking in 4,968 tons at $30.60 per ton. The fire burned just south of the Canadian border, on both sides of the Glacier National Park border.
And two days before Thanksgiving, Plum Creek bought another 4,104 tons for $19.49 a ton, clearing up trees cut along the reservoir during the Blackfoot fire.
Forest officials expect work will begin soon on hauling logs to the mill from the Wedge, Robert and Blackfoot sales. Additional trees will be sold from the Blackfoot and Robert fire areas by spring.
The trees, forest officials said, are easy to harvest, as most were cut alongside roads and remain neatly stacked not far from the roadways.
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