Reasons for Tree Harvesting (Hollow/Defective Wood)

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