Logging Rant/Venting

[N80]

The rest of the story:

I called the forester and the loggers and told them if they did not come back before the contract expired then they cannot come back at all. They waited two weeks of totally dry weather then came back three days ago right before this tropical storm moved in.

The forester says he could not work things out with my neighbor for access. I call my neighbor and he says there is no problem. I let the forester know AND told him I'd pay for road improvements AND culverts for even easier access. He says the loggers are moving out anyway.

The bottom line is that the forester totally misjudged the weather, repeatedly, he had no control over the loggers, did not make proper access arrangements and the end result is that they took everything that was easy to get and left me with the hard stuff unsold and now unthinned.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I will never let this happen again.

I won't mention names here, but if you live in this area and are having work done, PM me and I'll tell you who NOT to work with. Both this forester and this logger will get bad "reviews" from me. It probably won't matter but I do know a lot of landowners in this area.

 

[RollingsFarms]

I can't remember but did your contract include a clause in it where if a certain deadline wasn't met you were paid so much money? I have a contract out right now that says the loggers have until December 31, 2016 to get my job done or they pay me $25,000.

 

[N80]

No. There was not much in the contract the benefited me. Again, this was a low paying job. The forester said the loggers were losing money towards the end. I think his full of it, but the point is, you can't get much in a contract when the stakes are so low for the logger.