I spoke to a forester recently about timber values near where I live in
the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area of NC. He told me his company
generally pays around $800-1200 per acre to come in an cut down your
trees and take the wood. For good hardwoods, it could be as much as
$2000 per acre; for scrub pines it could be as little as $250 per acre.

It's a pretty small amount of money compared to the worth of that wood
as lumber, but it's also a hell of a lot of work to get it to that
point. It's nice to just let somebody else take care of everything and
give you a check when they're done.

Josh


Locutus wrote:
I've purchased some acreage to build a house on, and where the house is
going to be built it is mostly woods. The trees are mostly maple, birch and
oak. Probably 30-40 trees will need to come down, most of them are 1-2'
wide, a few larger.

Do these trees have any value? I'm not interested in "making money" off of
these tree per se, but anything to help offset the cost to have them removed
would obviously be helpful to me. Anyone have any idea how much I can
expect to pay to have these trees removed? Should I have the stumps dozed
out or ground down?

Comments/Suggestions/Advice appreciated.