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.
Shire Horse Show
(Continued from Pago All)
Class 21 - Grand Champion Stallion &
Reserve Grand Champion Stallion Champion
Gene & Vicky McCaffrey Reserve Champion
Ron & Lisa Young
Class 33 ■ Brood Mare, 4 years and Over 1
Ron & Lisa Young 2 Vicki Schmidt 3 Dennis &
Joan Woodhead
Class 34 - Yeld Mares 4 Years and Over 1
Gene & Vicky McCaffrey 2 Angela L Cook 3
Dennis & Joan Woodhead
Class 35-Mare 3 Years and under 4 1 Ron
& Lisa Young, 2 Gene & Vicky McCaffrey
Class 36 - Senior Champion Mare &
Reserve Senior Champion Mare Champion,
Gene & Vicky McCaffrey Reserve Champion,
Ron & Lisa Young
Class 37 - Mares 2 Years and Under 3 1
Ron & Lisa Young 2 Rutter-Alexander 3 Sharon
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Either the Meisners or Dobro
sky will make the initial trip to
the woodlot to determine the
type and value of the timber
available. 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
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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
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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.
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