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Murray Hall Forestry Technician R.R. # 1, Wingham Ont N0G 2W0 Ph. 519.335.6768 |
"IF YOUR WANT YOUR FOREST TO LOOK JUST GREAT" |
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Hello,
My name is Murray Hall, and I'm a forestry technician. I grew up in Owen Sound, but now reside near Wingham. After high school, I attended the Forest Ranger School at Dorset, specializing in forestry. Following graduation I worked for the department of Lands and Forests (subsequently called the Ministry of Natural Resources) in Owen Sound, Stratford and Wingham. After almost 30 years in the forestry section I took early retirement in September of 1994. About this time, the ministry stopped providing a free service of marking woodlots for private landowners. I felt that this was a needed service to protect landowners from unscrupulous loggers and to ensure that they got their fair market value for their trees. In October of 1994 I started Wingham Forestry Service. Most of my work involves the marking of woodlots for landowners that want to sell standing timbers, but I have also marked woodlots for fuel wood cutting, appraised woodlots for estate purposes, and have done some pruning in white ping and black walnut plantations. I love marking woodlots and am happy to educate landowners on the benefits of good forest management practices. When selling standing timber it is important to have the woodlot marked so you know exactly what you are selling. By advertising this timber to several potential log buyers you know you are getting the best price. My timber sale notice that is mailed out at the end of every month, reaches forty log buyers. In one case in 1996 a landowner was offered $ 15,000 for all the legal-sized timber in his 20 acre hard maple woodlot. Instead of selling to him, he had me mark the number of trees the other person could have legally taken, for the trees I marked he got $46,000. The cost of marking the woodlot at that time was $ 279, or about the price of one tree. Refer to the fee schedule attached. I usually mark about one hundred woodlots per year mainly in Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth and Wellington counties, but I have done work all over Southwestern Ontario. Fee Schedule $ 200.00 administration fee per trip or woodlot. This covers: - travel time both ways - time it takes to work up tally and send you a report on what was marked - making a trip to either Clinton or Owen Sound to get a copy of the aerial photograph that covers the woodlot. - Cost of advertising your timber on my timber sale notice (to approximately 40 log buyers) Plus: $ 40.00 per hour for each hour I'm on your property marking trees if you do the tallying or supply a tally person. Or $ 52.00 per hour is I supply a tally person ** I am consistently marking 5 acres per hour.** If more than one woodlot is marked during one day, there is an additional fee of $ 50.00 to cover the extra paperwork. G.S.T. is applicable on the above prices. Murry Hall, Forestry Technician |
