Land Clearing and Strategic Timber Management

off the land this again is on a nurse's salary do you feel like I'm feeding you with a fire hose yet I am going to feed you with a fire hose and if you need to go back and watch more go back and watch more if you need to prove to your wife or your husband that we can do this honey go back and watch it again so 60 Acres here 90 acres here we bought that land over there we built up enough equity that we had 25% down in equity on that land over there and we bought this with zero money down now we eventually ended up paying that land off over there and 50 more Acres came up for sale a year later over here across the road I didn't need any more land or any more work guys and I'm going to tell you a little bit about the quality of the land here in just a second so I bought that land over there in the midst of cutting Timber on this farm so there was only on the 60 acre tract over there about seven or 8ish Acres of cleared land all the rest of it was overgrown in 40-year-old Brushy Forest we needed to get rid of that we needed to start another Farm I talked to the oldtimers that used to live in the neighborhood here and I said man it used to be beautiful Rolling Hills right down through there all that was Fields all that was in corn and tobacco an old tobacco farm so we got to talk in a little bit so we cut all the Timber on this piece and we cut the Timber on this piece so we cut about 100 acres in total on Timber now you're looking for land and you're thinking man that Timber's worth a bunch of money trees this big aren't worth a bunch of money trees this this big aren't trees this big are okay so that being said we netted about 400 bucks per acre is on the land cutting the timber we took that money about $42,000 and we started clearing I had a guy come and start clearing land a guy that knew what he was doing he moved fast and he got a lot of land cleared very quickly but you need to pay attention and you need to have good conversations and good communication with the person that's going to clear your land I failed to tell them think Golf Course don't think cow pasture so when you're clearing land you think golf course you want a big beautiful park-like setting that is the goal when you're clearing land and this fella didn't know so I had to hire somebody else to come in behind him to straighten it up and to fix it up Frank Frank's probably watching right now so that all being said uh we started clearing Land We cleared uh right around 85 acres of land and…