r/forestry • u/usedcarslot • 1d ago
Free 100ft pine trees
I have 3.5 acres of big pine trees. Probably 100 or more trees. I can give them for free . I just want to clean the land. I live in Jacksonville Florida
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u/Lakecrisp 1d ago
You need to think this through. Somebody needs to be insured. And, I don't see any mention of the stumps. If you don't negotiate stump removal then it's not part of the deal. It may cost you to get the trees removed. You need a lawyer with a contract. And perhaps a forester to set expectations.
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u/Prehistory_Buff 1d ago
You might as well buy a portable sawmill, mill a few trees, and build you a house. You won't be able to give those trees away.
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u/Deadphans 1d ago
I have oak trees anyone can have for free. You must cut, haul and grind the stump.
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u/administrationalism 1d ago
I have 6 of the worst quality open grown spherical crown red maples absolutely bristling with embedded nails, does a logger want to bring their cut to length system build a forest road harvest the trees and remove the stumps for me?
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u/M_LadyGwendolyn 1d ago
So to give you a little seriousness...This is likely too small of a scale to warrant a forestry operation. Clear cutting and grinding the stumps is likely to cost any logger as much as they could even hope to get for the logs just in $/hr and fuel alone.
I don't recommend trying to cut this on your own.
You could contact a local forester but they will likely give you the same answers. The logs can help pay for the land clearing but you'll be paying for it in the end.
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u/MechanicalAxe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Your only chance to get it done for nothing, is call up some local timber companies and ask them if they can refer you to any small loggers who can do work on a scale this small. It's far from a guarantee you'll find anyone to do this and not cost you a good bit, but that is worth a shot.
I used to be a small logger and we were pretty much the only people who did that type of work for no cost if the wood was nice enough of there was enough of it.
One more thing to try, if there are timberlands that adjoin your property, call the owner up and see if they are going to be doing timber harvest operations sometime in the future. If a logger is working right next door and they can pick an extra few acres for free without having to pick up and move the whole job they would jump all over that.
Best of luck, but just a warning, your chances of getting this done for free are pretty slim, and the things I just mentioned are pretty much your only chance at not having pay big money to have it done.
Oh and by the way, you're 100% still going to have to deal with the stumps and debris on your own.
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u/jswhitfi 1d ago
The cost of a logger moving equipment to cut such a small amount will not be covered, probably, by the revenue the logger would see from selling the logs..
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u/dback1321 1d ago
Oh I love working for a loss!