Timber Procurement
Hatchers Timber buys timber throughout Northeast Florida in Clay, Duval, Alachua, Putnam, Baker, St. Johns, Bradford, Union, Flagler, and Nassau county. We buy timber from private landowners, developers, and forestry consultants. Contact us and we can cruise your timber and develop a logging plan. Both Randy & Boone Hatcher are Florida Master Loggers.
Timber procurement process
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The Timber Cruise
The first step to developing a logging plan is to cruise the timber. While cruising timber our goal is to identify the following
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Stand/property boundary lines
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Stand density
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Age and type of timber
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Road access and loading ramp locations
After cruising your timber and identifying your goals we will submit our bid.
2
Contract/Logging Plan
Once our bid on a stand of timber has been accepted we will provide a written contract to the Landowner. The next step will be going over the logging plan which includes where we plan to start cutting and where we will ramp on the property.
3
Logging Begins
Now the logging can began! First we will move the buncher to start cutting out a ramp where we will load the trucks. Next the skidder and loader are moved in and we're ready to load our trucks and get your wood to the mill.