A3B-Umcaster Farming. Saturday, October 14, 2000 Meiser Family (Continued from Pago A 37) The Timber Leads wheels begin to turn when a landowner makes contact with the business. “We schedule an appoint ment to take a look and see if there is commercial timber there,” said Nathan. It could be 5 acres or 100 acres, but if 5 acres has good timber and we can work with it, we’ll try to get it sold.” Checking out the land has led the Meisers to large and small tracts of land, and farms all over Pennsylvania. Pockets of woodland can be found almost anywhere, such as the timber hidden on an old homestead, according to Terry. “Most farms had a tract of woodland somewhere, in case they wanted to repair the barn,” said Terry. 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During this trip they also estimate the feet of logs in a tree, a number judged from the stump to where the tree begins to split into branches at the top of the tree. According to Terry, who en tered the timber business in 1976, “Timber used to be cut a lot smaller, but rising produc tion costs made younger trees not really worth taking in,” he said. “Starting in the ’Bos smaller trees weren’t worth any thing, so people starting leaving them, which is good. So now the economics of the thing took care of itself.” The time needed to check out a lot depends on the size of the lot plus the terrain, said Nathan. “If it’s only five acres you can Class 38 - Mare, 1 Year And Under 2 1 Thomas Taylor 2 Thomas Taylor 3 Rutter- Alexander Class 40 Mare Foal 1 Vicki Schmidt 2 Pat Pitkin 3 Dennis & Joan Woodhead Class 42 Junior Champion Mare & Reserve Junior Champion Mare Champion, Ron & Lisa Young Reserve Champion, Thomas Taylor Class 43 - Grand Champion Mare and Reserve Grand Champion Mare Champion Gene & Vicky McCaffrey Reserve Champion, Ron & Lisa Young Class 53 - Get of Sire 1 Ron & Lisa Young 2 Rutter-Alexander 3 Dennis & Joan Woodhead Class 54 - Produce of Dam 1 Ron & Lisa Young 2 Robert 0 Skaggs 3 Rutter-Alexander Class 55 - Stallion and Three Mares 1 Ron & Lisa Young 2 Gene & Vicky McCaffrey 3 Dennis & Joan Woodhead Class 56 - Mare and Foal 1 Ron & Lisa Young 2 Vicki Schmidt 3 Gene & Vicky McCaffrey business, workshop We Build Ag Buildings! Schick Enterprises 1-800-527-7675 ireenhouse, and more tool, iarai get in pretty quickly to deter mine if it’s an option for a com mercial sale,” said Nathan. “The terrain also makes a dif ference. If you’re walking on the side of a mountain, it takes longer.” Although larger lots pose more of a challenge, Tim ber Leads checks out much of the acreage. “If you have a 70-acre lot, 20 acres may not be as nice, but there may be 20 acres that are,” said Nathan. Although five acres are a benchmark amount for Tim ber Leads, smaller amounts of acreage can be sold, said Nathan. “We try to work with people who have less than that. It may just take longer to make a sale,” said Nathan. Meiser also said that terrain is a consideration on which lots are bought by the sawmills. “If it’s really rough terrain and hard to get into, there’s much more expense involved in the logging operation,” said Nathan. The Meisers give a landowner packet to the producer, which gives step-by-step information on the Timber Leads buying and selling process. The packet also includes forms for the land owner to fill out with basic infor mation on the acreage, determine their goals for the timber sale, and information the landowner should get from the timber buyer. Landowners have the option of letting the timber buyer mark and take out the timber, or hiring a consulting forester to handle everything for the land owner. ‘We try to tailor our service to whatever the landowner wants ■nr to accomplish,” said Nathan. bought, to take advantage of the Timber Leads charges sub- business. “When we changed scribers an initial start-up fee that (commission versus and a percentage for each lot the monthly subscription charging), subscriber buys, rather than the - we signed up a lot of them in a previous monthly subscription hurry,” said Terry. fee. According to Terry, this al lowed the “niche mills,” with a narrower scope of timber To reach people outside the Meisers’ immediate area, Timber Leads utilizes the connections of retired county agent Tony Dobrosky, left, who makes contacts with pro ducers In the York county area for Timber Leads. Lancaster rP ==f==f= = T =: ] Poured Walls • Agriculture •Commercial •Residential ij. - Call for Prices On: • SCS approved Manure Storage • Basements • Retaining Walls Customer Satisfaction Is Our Goal Lancaster Poured Walls 2001 Jarvis Rd. • Lancaster, PA 17601 • (717) 299-3974 For additional information, the Timber Leads Website is lo cated at www.timberleads.com.
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