Selling Pipeline and Power Line Timber

Throughout a large portion of Ohio’s Utica and Marcellus shale, an incredible energy boom is taking place.Selling pipeline and power line timber has become increasingly important as the impressive volume of oil and natural gas coming out of these new wells quickly transforms America into the number one global energy producer, ahead of even Saudi Arabia.

The Fracking Boom

Advances in drilling technology, along with increases in the price of other fossil fuel sources, have made once unobtainable gas economically extractable. As a result, investment dollars, major energy companies, and countless contractors have flooded into the area to prepare the necessary infrastructure to accommodate the region’s rich gas deposits.

Selling Pipeline and Power Line Timber

An important part of preparing this infrastructure involves clearing timber to make room for pipelines, roads, and other easements. Due to the dense forest areas in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, workers are piling up a tremendous amount of valuable timber, leaving it behind and forgetting about it.

Many landowners assume the timber is worthless or only valuable as firewood, but the truth is that pipeline crews are clearing many trees that are actually commercially valuable hardwood! Timber Works specializes in purchasing the timber that these pipeline crews leave behind.

Selling Cleared Timber

Selling Pipeline and Power Line Timber

The land clearing process these crews use is fairly straightforward. First, they use large cutting equipment known as feller-bunchers to indiscriminately cut trees up to a certain width along the energy company’s easement. Crews often encounter trees that are too large to be brought down with the feller buncher. They either hand cut the largest trees in the forest with chainsaws or push them over with large bulldozers or track hoes.

We encourage landowners to demand that their timber be either handcut or cut with a feller buncher. When heavy equipment pushes timber over, it often splits and splinters. Even worse, timber tends to break near the base of the tree, damaging the most valuable portion of the entire tree stem.

If you have a pile of logs left on your property by a land clearing contractor, give Timber Works a call for a free, no hassle assessment of their value today!