l86 TIMBER VALUATION 



Brush disposal so as to reduce the fire hazard and prevent 

 smothering volunteer young growth is not a universal practice 

 but it requires in softwoods not more than 20 per cent of the total 

 time. 



There is a vast deal of difference between the cost of felling 

 hardwoods and softwoods. The latter cut very much more 

 rapidly. Hardwoods may, in fact, require three times as long 

 in small logs. Ashe states (Cost of Logging Large and Small 

 Timber, Forestry Quarterly, XIV-3) that " the cost of felling oak, 

 with which are included birch, beech, maple, and other species of 

 heavy wood, is shown to be about 20 per cent greater than the 

 cost of felling the lighter and softer woods such as white pine, 

 yellow pine, poplar and basswood." This refers to relatively 

 large timber. 



Applying the facts brought out here to forest types they fall 

 into several groups. In the first are the large softwoods like: 



Redwood and sequoia. 

 Sugar pine. 

 Douglas fir. 

 Western red cedar. 



With these tne cost of felling and bucking has always been less 

 than $1 per M, i.e., the daily output for two men would exceed 

 8M or in man hours the cost per M ranges from one and one-half 

 to two. The second group includes the medium sized softwoods 

 such as are found in the: 



Silver pine type. 

 Western yellow pine type. 

 Hemlock spruce type. 

 Yellow poplar cove. 

 Cypress bottoms. 



In these stands the costs have ranged from $1 to $1.25 per M or 

 two to three man hours per M. This would reduce the daily 

 output for a two man crew to an average of eight M. 



