Harvest
On this page you will find resources to assist in managing the harvest phase of a private native forestry operation. Whether you are planning to contract the harvest and sale from beginning to end or somewhere in between there is information for you.
Marketing-Ensuring a Return.
In SE Queensland we are fortunate to have a significant range of forest product types and application options. The range of products is mainly due to a wide selection of species of high natural durability and strength. Many States and certainly most individual properties are limited in their product range mainly due to the inherent nature of the available species suitable for marketing.
PFSQ Native Forest Stand Harvest Guide
The harvest of a native forest is one of the most significant events within a timber stand’s management cycle. Harvesting, after the many years of managing the forest using fire, thinning and other forest management activities is the culmination of the forest management cycle but unfortunately is frequently not treated as such.
The PFSQ Native Forest Stand Harvest Guide is an excellent resource for planning and executing a private native forestry harvest.
Click here to download the full guide.
(pdf document, requires acrobat reader or similar)
Forestry Measurement Tools
One of the first steps in managing any successful harvest is determining how much timber you have to harvest. The Forestry Measurement tools are a collection of spreadsheet tools that will assist in calculating inventory, stand volume, tree log volume, log volume, tree basal area, stems per hectare and more.
To download the full toolset in Microsoft Excel format Click here
(Microsoft Excel spreadsheet document)
Sawing and Stumpage Comparison Tool
The Sawing and Stumpage Comparison Tool allows the landholder post harvest or during harvest to evaluate how succesful the harvest operation has been. Using this tool you can calculate sawn timber recovery rates, processing costs, percentages of select and standard grade, stumpage return in dollars and more. All the tools are contained in a easy to use Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
To download this valuable document Click here
(Microsoft Excel spreadsheet document)
On favourable sites, these species grow to 45 m in total height and 1.3 m in stem diameter, but attain only half these dimensions on poorer sites. They have straight slender trunks with smooth bark. This is shed in patches leaving slight depressions in the surface, which give a characteristic spotted appearance.
