$$$ HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE MAKING FROM CUTTING OUR TIMBER..HOW WILL WE SPEND IT?

hey there this is Josh tawny Ridge farmer I've been getting a lot of questions about timber we're cutting timber here on the farm these are some of the machines that they used to cut the timber people are asking me how much money are you actually making on the timber well I'm going to talk to you a little bit about it is it really worth it is it really worth cutting the timber you know it's a toss-up so let's talk about today what's going on over here on the farm these are the logs and what I'm making on the timber cutting operation okay and what the main goal is here too so if you're thinking about cutting timber this might be a little bit of food for thought if you're a tree hugger this could be a little bit of food for thought too this is about forest management and this is also a little bit about why I'm cutting timber on our farm so come on along today and we'll show you a little bit of the logs that we're cutting we'll talk about what the logs are and we'll talk about the timber cutting and how profitable it is come on along I think you'll enjoy the vlog today maybe you'll learn a little something you didn't know about cutting timber and also feet suck I don't want to use it I've got to use it I'll tell you why [Music] Oh first let's address deep guys I don't want to use this stuff okay this is a insect repellent that we absolutely cannot do without on the farm I'll post a link to it down below this is the max DEET 40% I also have 100% DEET the stuff is bad it's not good for you you know I like to just spray it on my clothes but sometimes I spray it on my legs sometimes I spray it on my arms the story here goes I got bit by a spider on my arm right here and it's swollen up you can't really tell but it swelled up like this big I don't know what kind of spider it was black widow brown recluse or just a regular old garden-variety spider but I am not letting this happen again if I can help it also we have what we call chiggers and I'm going to do a video about chiggers what our chiggers well one day I'll do a video about triggers triggers are the little stinging biting little insects also known as grass mites or noseeums those little guys will tear your up I'm telling you right now my legs have at least 50 bites on them from ticks tiny little ticks and chiggers something you need to know about being outside in this area at this time of year it is trigger and tick season it got really really dry and those things will latch onto you and tear you up and it's not cool and it's not fun and all the guys that are cutting timber right now are eight up with them too and the place they like to go the most kind of right and in there I like to nest I like to nest in your own little private nest not cool here's a pile of logs these are what you would call saw logs okay these logs will go to a sawmill and be cut into lumber for you to build furniture out of for you to use in your house for you to use all throughout your life things are made of wood okay so if you're a quote unquote tree hugger or tree lover believe me I'm a tree lover also but these trees need to be harvested and I'll show you why here in a minute take you and show you the ends of the trees and what's going on behind the scenes that you don't see with big trees in your force these aren't monster trees they're not this big this isn't the Pacific Northwest okay these are 40 50 60 year old trees maybe maybe 40 56 year old trees that we need to get out of here okay so we've got wild cherry we've got poplar we've got sycamore we've got oak we've got a big pretty wild cherry right there it's awesome stuff if you want to make your own furniture boy a wild cherry log about that big would be awesome to cut up and dry and make your own furniture but we're not making our own furniture we're buying our own furniture with the money that we make for timber so we're going off tripod here we're going to go over I'm going to show you why we're cutting logs okay why we're cutting timber these are poplar logs right here behind me and this is a pup ler beautiful beautiful wood the longer it sits out here the more of a chance of getting black spots in it like this area right here that's not desirable at the timber yard so these guys need to get these logs loaded up pretty quick also I'm going to take you down and show you some of the wood what it looks like on the end and the sizes of the logs you can see you know my hands about eight inches or so got pretty big hand yeah pretty decent saw log right here it's not huge but it needed to be cut because all these trees are just growth that happened after a field was neglected and we're taking back the fields these are nice healthy logs right here these are poplar logs down here I've got a little bit of oak okay and we've got some sycamore right here okay and we've got some more oak over here kind of neat we're going to go down here and show you a lot of why we're cutting what we're cutting so as a poplar gets bigger look what we have what is that it's hollow okay when these trees get so big they just get hollow inside guys and they're not doing me any good being Hollow if I want to be a good steward of the land and a good manager of my forest and a good manager of my farm I'm going to take back what I don't need I'm gonna mow what I don't need and we're getting a little bit of money for it so we'll talk about the money aspect of it okay before we talk about the money aspect of it let's look around at some of the stuff here these are bridge Timbers okay these Timbers right here are used by the logging company to put over top of water there are a lot of rules and regulations that we have to follow environmental rules in order to proceed with the logging operation so back in the old days in the 30s 40 50 60 70 s when these logging operations were all around the south water runoff and watershed was not an issue it's a big issue now okay and protecting the watershed and protecting our streams is a very big issue that's why we have these timbers when we go to cross the creek we make an area we lay the Timbers across and they cruise across and drag them with these big pieces of equipment that you'll see behind me in a second so FY logging here in North Carolina is not just a podunk hillbilly operation guys this is an operation that works closely with the u.s. Forest Service to make sure that we do the right thing that we cut the right trees that we do everything we should do to protect our streams now for what you really might have watched a video for guys the timber operation they're cutting somewhere in the neighborhood of four to seven acres of timber per week the profitability on this is I'm getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 to 2,500 dollars every week depending on the quality of timber now the timber that we looked at just a few minutes ago is very profitable timber it's good timber it brings big bucks I say big bucks but the way it works is my my timber operation we split it 50/50 they cut the trees they take them to the sawmill they sell them and we split it 50% they take the pulp wood which is wood that's undesirable you know this big that's made into paper that's also made into plywood and other types of veneered furniture I get a 35 percent cut of that so is it very profitable it can be very profitable if you have rows of pine trees this big and they're cutting rows and the guys can go snip snip snip snip snip but what I have is overgrown crappy forests that used to be fields and grew all every which way so now we're taking back those fields we're taking the Stoney Ridge farm from about 50 acres of field all the way open to about a hundred acres of pasture land and field this is an arduous chore that I'm going to have to handle so is cutting the timber going to be profitable for us absolutely not because every single dime that we make from cutting this timber goes right back into the farm it goes into equipment it goes into clearing fields it goes into grass seed I'll be planting somewhere in their neighborhood of nine to ten thousand dollars worth of grass seed after these guys leaves so is the timber operation profitable yes it is if you're replanting trees no it's not if you're putting it back into the farm but it's profiting us in the end making this farm a wonderful beautiful place to be so guys this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer I wanted to come over show you what was going on the timber operation this is what we want this is how it's going to be we have to work our way through the nasty parts in order to get the beautiful parts okay none of this comes without hard work I got a lot of people leaving comments you're so lucky you're so last not luck guys it's hard work if you're not willing to put the work in you're not going to get the results out of it and that's just everything in life okay so get to work get off your butt do something with yourself and be proud of it thanks for watching guys this is Josh Tanya Ridge farmer click that like button give me a thumbs up tell me what you think all right [Music] earrings we at least meet Billy Reed [Music]