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It's not easy work and every lot is different (some are just boundary flagged and you cut everything over 8" DBH) ... one can do pretty good for them but you're chopping and driving ... you have to be into it I guess , I'm not a great machine operator. Bright side is they fix it when it breaks

It's like Casinos , it always is in favor of the house , their add says owned by a "heritage family" (code for Rednecks) Buying stumpage they will either lump sum you in advance or go through the process and you'll get mill checks. Buyer actually offered me a job chopping for them which gave...

There's another mill in Mass. I have sold to that has an interesting approach. Not the highest prices but they will take just about any sound log as getting rid of low grade can be challenging , having their own Pallet Shop helps ... they will also scale Balsam Fir as Spruce (nice for the...

Though Softwoods here are a much easier game , only two Grades and mostly two lengths

Comes down to cutting and presenting the best log for value , many times it's an 8' ... in New England the money is in the Butts

Goes pretty quick for a job as they pretty much can eyeball lengths then measure DIB small end and then Grade , there's an old thread maybe still around about the one time we got Scaled on the landing while the Truck loaded ... if we liked the price he cut us a check on the spot , if not they...

Agreed , the Scalers steal with slipperystick depending on your last name ... one upside here is a mid size local hardwoods only mill that will buy and scale odd lengths (of course with 6" trim) , it can and does add up sending out 11'6" 's or 9'6" 's

With board feet the stick is the stick , where they hurt you or help you depending is on grade

In the Greens the Scalers work for the Mill , all decisions final. You do much better on Scale if you bring in a couple few million feet a year.

... here in U.S. the stealing is done by the Scalers

Also Veneer was only 10's and 12's , so if it didn't make grade it could still go even if once in awhile got made into an 8'

Now that I think on it , the big main mill here's minimal 3" and preferred 6" , though on Veneer grade (different mill) preferred 10" trim ... so anything we thought was real good we cut to Veneer spec

Depends on the Mill price and spec sheet ... here it's usually 6" trim