Private Sale
It starts with a phone call. Someone has seen a Duberville Logging ad, or visited the website, and has decided this is the team they want to handle their logging needs. Jake Duberville will listen carefully to what is wanted. He knows there are all kinds of reasons, and all kinds of circumstances, to prompt a person to contact a logger, and he is always ready for what he is about to hear.
A couple has been talking about managing the woods on their property for years. This will include over story removal as well as select cut harvesting. They have done their research. They know the woods will improve, and they will come out with a profit.
Another couple wants to do a hardwood thinning in the woods around their home. It will open up their woods, and they believe they will then have enough to purchase the new camper they have their eye on.
In another state, a woman inherits a tract of land she will never see. She does a search and makes a decision.
After their ninety-two-year-old mother passes away, their father being gone going on twenty years, four down-state siblings decide to keep the farm but log the timber. They will split the proceeds.
A new metal roof being needed for his seventy-year-old barn, a farmer decides to log the woods alongside his fields but stopping short of the shore area and creek that runs through the north part of his property.
A man wants to improve the land he owns and hunts on, for better white-tail deer habitat.
Jake listens kindly to what is being said. Questions are asked. Usually, one of the first things out of his mouth is, ‘What are you trying to accomplish?’
He will offer to cruise the property.
He will take in what he sees there, report back, offer his insights, and give his estimated value of the timber harvest.
If the landowner agrees to proceed, a Timber Sale Contract is drawn up. It will be a Lump Sum Contract, with 10% paid upon signing, and the remainder paid up front before the logging begins.
Everything will be laid out in the Timber Sale Contract, to protect both the seller and the buyer. Good communication and trust must be established, leading up to the signing of the contract, and then through the entire logging operation, and even after. Jake is good at listening, explaining; and then he will make sure the job is done right.
While the logging of wood on a property is the end of a long process—first there was the idea of the harvesting; next the securing of the logger—it is the beginning of a new one—the rejuvenation of the woods.
The logger is part of this cycle, and you can be, too!
Patrick Grasiewicz