Night_Stalker
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Wow,your loading that bad boy up! I just bought the lot next to me at a township auction. I gota get two 50+ ft pine trees cut down.Im afraid to call for estimates/lol!
Does this make you feel better?
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Do it yourself. Not that hard of a job-- unless you are dealing with Buildings.
I look like a logger but not one. Have cut 85' trees and fell them right where I wanted them.
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I only bought what I know I’ll use in the coming year. I carefully calculated using a estimation of time I would need to rent some certain equipment. If I figured if I would spend approximately 50% in rental fees of what the implement cost then it mad sense to own it. Based on what I see is a common return when selling - I could very well be ahead of the game later.
For example: a good Woods or Frontier Reversing PTO snow blower sells for 90% or better “used” through the fall season and in some cases if you manage to keep it clean and take care of it you can get all your money back when it’s typically 6 years old or newer. Selling privately there’s no waiting, no sales tax and the prices are going up every year. I have a brochure from 2018 and a Frontier 72” reversing blower was $5135, today its $6745. You could have bought that, used it for 3 years, maybe make a buck off it and easily resell it this fall for $5200. Since I’ll bet you anything nothing will be available if you wait too long, this will be a steel to make a grown man cry to take this home before the first snow falls!
Hell, You have to wait more than 6 months to get a new Kubota, dealers are selling low hours, clean trouble free loaders for just a few thousand less and many times even near equal to new cost just because of instant availability when you need it most. And do I dare repeat? you can use it and sell it later for what you paid because they go up 5 to 10% each year!
If you think this current supplier shortage will be over soon you are sadly mistake. Expect this to continue for another 3 or 4 years and then some. The new world order lessons learned is low to no inventory, make due with fewer employees, less retail hours open, and manufacturing do not even try to increase production because your profit margin has skyrocked since prices increased, just ask your friendly petrochemical company.
Congratulations on your lot purchase, I known how satisfying it is to pick up adjoining property.
I only bought what I know I’ll use in the coming year. I carefully calculated using a estimation of time I would need to rent some certain equipment. If I figured if I would spend approximately 50% in rental fees of what the implement cost then it mad sense to own it. Based on what I see is a common return when selling - I could very well be ahead of the game later.
For example: a good Woods or Frontier Reversing PTO snow blower sells for 90% or better “used” through the fall season and in some cases if you manage to keep it clean and take care of it you can get all your money back when it’s typically 6 years old or newer. Selling privately there’s no waiting, no sales tax and the prices are going up every year. I have a brochure from 2018 and a Frontier 72” reversing blower was $5135, today its $6745. You could have bought that, used it for 3 years, maybe make a buck off it and easily resell it this fall for $5200. Since I’ll bet you anything nothing will be available if you wait too long, this will be a steel to make a grown man cry to take this home before the first snow falls!
Hell, You have to wait more than 6 months to get a new Kubota, dealers are selling low hours, clean trouble free loaders for just a few thousand less and many times even near equal to new cost just because of instant availability when you need it most. And do I dare repeat? you can use it and sell it later for what you paid because they go up 5 to 10% each year!
If you think this current supplier shortage will be over soon you are sadly mistake. Expect this to continue for another 3 or 4 years and then some. The new world order lessons learned is low to no inventory, make due with fewer employees, less retail hours open, and manufacturing do not even try to increase production because your profit margin has skyrocked since prices increased, just ask your friendly petrochemical company.
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Is there room to fell this tree? Can you rent a long bar chainsaw, get some cutting wedges, chaps, head gear and eye wear (or face shield) and do it yourself? Does the tree have 16 feet or more straight sections? If so there are guys that take down pines if they can cut good board feet on site. Fifty foot pines have to have great girth and you can rent a portable mill beam to slice into boards and let dry.
Too bad it’s not hardwood because it wouldn’t be that difficult to find someone to take it down nearly free. Then you just have to rent a tree stump grinder for a day. Where are you located? I forget what you said once.
Watch YouTube videos, there’s probably a hundred of them about tree cutting. Oh, if it’s Cedar that’s money in the bank for sure no matter how bad the tree is.
Or you can wait for a declaration of a disaster that covers your address, then you can take down your widow - maker trees for free Or at least get all that you need to do it yourself or someone else for free!
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Night_Stalker
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Im in S-NJ 1/2 way between Philly & Atlantic City.
Im not gona chance cutten em myself.Too much stuff to wipe out if thay fall the wrong way& if thay take out the power lines Im really screwed.
My neighbor did that.
Im not gona chance cutten em myself.Too much stuff to wipe out if thay fall the wrong way& if thay take out the power lines Im really screwed.
My neighbor did that.
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Night_Stalker
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Night_Stalker
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Definitely pine.
Break off a branch, see if it has a Red core and smells. You can get a lot of dough for a straight cedar tree, even the chips if you bag them.
If it’s plain pine it’s no good for firewood, but if you can cut planks out of it you can offset the cost of cutting it down.
If it’s plain pine it’s no good for firewood, but if you can cut planks out of it you can offset the cost of cutting it down.
Night_Stalker
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Their pine.The other is to the left.All the other trees in my area are mostly swamp maples.A very few oaks.No ceders.
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Yeah, I can’t tell from this vantage point how to advise.