Investing in Timber

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matty

You asked about the date of the message. I received that message about 6 weeks ago (about paying for thinnings).

I had sent a message earlier and was told that thinnings would be started in roughly last week of February (they said, 4-6 weeks from date of my email). I was told that thinnings couldn't start until the rainy season was over and the ground had dried sufficiently for them to safely use their equipment or oxen teams.

I waited until April to check up on the thinnings and the quote I posted is from the response I got at that time. So - a pretty fast 180 from "thinnings are about to start" to "we will do no thinnings before we get paid, there is no market, etc. etc."


Your post about the semantics of "already thinned trees" is the same I was going to say - the fact that they say they are selling trees that have been thinned doesn't indicate that the thinning has actually been done yet. Steve himself posted on this board something to that effect.