I will need to clear our new lot soon so that we can build a house on it. Fully covered in Pine trees. I have been trying to figure out what I can do with the wood, no one wants them. Also Pine wood doesn't make good fire wood.

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Pine is fine

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Originally posted by Kilroy2721:
I will need to clear our new lot soon so that we can build a house on it. Fully covered in Pine trees. I have been trying to figure out what I can do with the wood, no one wants them. Also Pine wood doesn't make good fire wood.

Good luck, I bet you're excited about building a house!

I had the same scenario when building my house and ended up paying a guy to cut them down to 11' lengths. When we got enough of them, a mill sent a truck to pick them up, the mill used them for making treated split rail fence. I got almost enough for them to pay for cutting them down.

A few years back I had more cleared, as well as thinning an area, and found a small time logger (the same one I'm using now) that took care of everything. He took some to that same mill, others to a paper mill, and the smaller ones to a mulch operation nearby. He pulled out the stumps in the area cleared where I was building a shop but left the stumps where he thinned, then ran over the limbs mashing them into the ground to rot. I was happy to get a few thousand from him after it was done.

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Originally posted by Kilroy2721:
Also Pine wood doesn't make good fire wood.

Pine isn't as good as most hardwoods, but it works just fine as firewood. The wood needs to be dry and chimneys need to be cleaned annually.

Pine is likely the primary firewood used throughout the western US.

I use pine for the people with short attention spans. I save the oak and maple for me.

I’m looking at portable saw mills.

Tell the mills those logs identify as beef and they'll sell for $6.15/lb.

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Originally posted by 10-96:
Tell the mills those logs identify as beef and they'll sell for $6.15/lb.

Let's see at an average of 16" diameter by 9' they weigh around 800# and there are 7 so 5,600# times $6.15...... $34,440, I'd be rich!