1. Managing Your Timber Sale Advice for landowners before logging

3. What’s a Fair Share for the Owner?  Understanding log markets and the jargon  C,K, and J sorts, camp run  Pulp wood, chip ‘n saw  Log scaling and weight scale  What should a logging job cost?

4. Understanding Log Markets

5.  Log prices fluctuate  Log market contacts are important  Perceptions of log quality vary   Know what you have in order to evaluate harvest timing and target purchasers

6. Log Markets: Sources of Data

7. The Jargon  Bureau grades: peeler, SM, 2S, 3S, 4S  Export Sorts: Japan, China, Korea, others  Domestic Sorts: Camp run, chip ‘n saw, diameter/length breaks, oversize logs

8. Log Sorts: Peeler

9. Log Sorts: Japan

10. Log Sorts: Korea

11. Log Sorts: Chip-and-Saw

12. Log Sorts: Alder Sawlogs

13. The Jargon: Sorts Revisited

14. A final word about log exports  Source: April 2002 report by James Stevens, Campbell Group LLC

15. Log Scaling and Weight Scale  Roll-out scale

16. Log Scaling and Weight Scale  Roll-out scale  Puget Sound Log Scaling and Grading Bureau 1969 Rule Book “Independent” 3 rd party measuring  Mill scale  Ton wood  Weight sampling

17. What Should a Logging Job Cost ?  What is a “logging job”?  Extras Clearing debris and pulling stumps Burning piles Capital improvements Road maintenance and abandonment Permitting, engineering, surveying Marketing services Harvest administration Reforestation

18. Logging Cost Factors  Logging systems  Timber size and quality  Road access  Distance to market

19. More Cost Factors  Harvest volume  Silvicultural system  Neighbor concerns  Contract terms (“Extras”)

20. What Should a Logging Job Cost ?  What is the magic “% split”? There isn’t one: logging costs commonly range from 20-70 % of gross WDOR uses the figure 35 % of gross when no records are available

21. QUESTIONS ?

22. Presented by: John D. Gold, Principal John Gold & Co., Consulting Foresters 619 Commercial Avenue Suite 25 Anacortes, WA 98221 360/299-8166gold@fidalgo.net