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YOUR TIMBERLANDS ARE VALUABLE! SERVICES OFFERED BY FORECON, INC. • Timber Management Plans • Timber Appraisals • Timber Inventory • Timber Marking • Timber Marketing and Sales • Silvicultural Recommendations • Timber Stand Improvement • Tree Planting • Christmas Tree Management • Forest Engineering • Timber Trespass Appraisals • Estate Appraisals of Timberland • Boundary Maintenance/Posting • Timber Tax Planning Assistance • Section 480-A Planning (NY only) • Clean & Green (PA only) • Economic Studies • Environmental Impact Studies • Oil & Gas Well Drilling Consulting • Mining & Reclamation Planning • Forest Recreation Development • Urban Forestry FOREST PEST CONTROL FORECONwas successful in the suppression of gypsy LET THE EXPERTS AT moth damage involving over 25,000 acres of timber for 1985 and 1986. FORECON HELP YOU FORECONcan help you protect your forests from the gypsy moth. MANAGE THEM! Call us for further information Contact the FORECON Office Nearest You 5 Genesee Street 229 State Street MAIN OFFICE Avon, NY 14414 Lowville, NY 13367 Crown Building (716) 226-8330 (315) 376-7758 100 E. Second Street Room 311 P.O. Box 48 Jamestown, NY 14701 Cortland Savings Bank 8 Bridge Street (716) 664-5602 Cortland, NY 13045 Towanda, PA 18848 (607) 753-3113 (717) 265-7055 Circle No. I4 on Service coupon est chapter of a forest owners; maple producers; or Christmas treegrowers association and then go to meetings to meet other peo- fures ple already in the business. That will at least help you learn what Richard E. Garrett, President 11261 Apulia Road POOR SAP FLOW questions to ask and will bring Lafayette. NY 13084 (315/696-8725) In late March NH maple pro- you endless opportunities to learn Norman E. Richards, 1st Vice President ducers were hoping mild temper- about management services.) 156 W estmi nster Ave. atures following moderate over- Syracuse, NY 13210 (315/472-3696) night freezes would finally get the QUEBEC FORESTS J. Morgan Heussler, 2nd Vice President sap flow going in earnest. Pro- The Quebec minister respon- 900 Porterville Road East Aurora, NY 14052 (716/652-4856) ducers in the Connecticut River sible for forests, Mr. Albert Cote, Valley finished off about 20% of a has introduced a bill designed to Robert M. Sand, Secretary Cotton Hanlon, Inc. normal crop with color holding protect the province's woodland Cayuta, NY 14824 (607/594-3321) light in some locations and drop- reserves, of which about 90% are ping to medium in others. With owned by the Government. Tom Wolfe, Treasurer Box 57, Warners Lake Road the season advancing and expec- Wood quotas would be re- East Berne, NY 12059 tations mounting of a short crop, placed by 25-year forest supply Howard O. Ward, Assistant Treasurer prices were reported to be firm- and management contracts. 240 Owego Street ing. Barrel syrup was then steady Companies would be allowed to Candor, NY 13743 at $22 ...Retail gallons were $30 harvest in proportion to the Donald Colton, Director minimum and ranged to $40. forest's capacity and timber com- 5595 Trinity Avenue -NH Dept. of Agriculture panies would be responsible for Lowville, NY 13367 plating, And yes, cut your stumps reforestation, The new bill also low and parallel with the ground Thomas A. Conklin, Director LOVES IDS DEERE 2040 calls for a 50% increase in timber 10 Artillery Lane surface. I read Wes Suhr's good re- cutting fees. Baldwinsville, NY 13027 And what do I use? My wood- sponse to the small skidder ques- Quebec woodlands cover an Richard J. Fox, Director lot is on a hilly site. Two of my tion, and should like to contrib- area equivalent to France and RD 3, Dresserville Road skid trails have a 20% slope. I love ute from my own experiments Great Britain combined, They Moravia, NY 13118 my rig which can do what I want and research on the use of farm produce 50 million cubic yards of Robert A. Hellman, Director safely and comfortably: a John tractors as woodlot skidders. timber each year, while private P.O.Box 231, Brockport, NY 14420 Deere 2040 (40 hp diesel), While pto horsepower is im- forests there produce about 13 Allen F. Horn, Director equipped as suggested above and portant for the winch, weight and million. 3978 Pompey Center Road with a Farmi JL 330 winch. No Manlius, NY 13104 traction are essential to skidder -Quebec Government House chains, Recently I skidded out a movement. Get a compact, heavy NY City R. Dean Frost, Director 23" DBH, 16' long ash butt log, RD I, Box 80 tractor with four-wheel drive. one end off the ground, up a 13% Whitney Point, NY 13862 Use the largest combination of slope. Bigger equipment will do GAS LEASES William H. Lynch, Jr., Director tires recommended by the manu- more; smaller, less. You can do We are in the process of draw- 100 Whitestone Drive facturer. Put tubes in all tires and Syracuse. NY 13215 good skidding safely with a cus- ing up a contract on our hunting have them all fitted with calcium tomized farm tractor. grounds in PA. How can we ob- Stuart McCarty, Chairman solution. Try your rig without Long Range Planning -Peter Levatich tain the 29 point addendum for a chains first. 4300 East Avenue Brooktondale, NY gas lease mentioned in the Janu- Rochester, NY 14618 You need front weight to lift ary/February Forest Owner? logs in the back. Determine the -Martin Hamsted Harold Petrie, Director maximum front weighting for WHERE TO BEGIN? RD I, Box 117, Parish, NY 13131 Hawthorne, NJ your model (and tires) and con- Our family has some wooded Earl Pfamer, Director struct an equivalent weight of acreage with a variety of trees (Editor's note: Try calling Robert Allen Road, Chaffee, NY 14030 steel and reinforced concrete growing on it, especially black Heppner at 716/326-4701.) Alec C. Proskine, Director shaped as a bumper between the walnut. None of these trees has 9370 Congress Road Trumansburg, NY 14886 front wheels. This will also serve ever been farmed, but I would to bend saplings forward as you like to start. Where does one be- Robert O. Richter, Director RD 3, Box 254A approach them protecting your gin? Should we contact a man- Greene,NY 13778 steering components, agement service? Are there any Evelyn Stock, Director Seatbelts and rollbars are im- pamphlets or books you might Ike Dixon Road, Camillus, NY 13031 portant. Mount all wheels lateral- suggest? Everyone has to start Lloyd C. Strombeck, Director ly out as far as they will go. Sur- somewhere! 57 Main Street, Owego, NY 13827 vey the underneath of the tractor, -Kevin Woodruff Wesley E. Suhr, Director Some makes, as John Deere, Wolcott, NY Ranger School, Wanakena, NY 13695 have most controls internalized, others have wires, tubes, levers, (Editor's note: This letter is typi- John Thorington, Director Rt. 2, Skyhigh Road, Tully, NY 13159 filters, etc., hanging out. Slash calof dozens we receivefrom curi- will pry these off unless you pro- ousforest owners, We suggest as Sanford Vreeland, Director 1707 Rush-Henrietta Townline Road tect them with closely fitted steel afirst step that you join the near- Rush. NY 14543 Ruth J. Thoden, Executive Secretary P.O. Box 123 Boonville, NY 13309 (315/942-4593) May/June 1987 3 added features usually only found in me- chanical winches. It is clutch-operated so the cable free-wheels out fast and easily. The clutch enables smooth and gradual engagement. The operator can, in fact, choose any pull from zero to 6,600 pounds. The winch can be remotely con- trolled and has a drum brake which works also if hydraulic pressure is lost. The winch can be bolted to any machine WOODLOT with hydraulic outlets. Circle number 53 on the Reader Service Coupon. KIOTI: NEW TRACTOR BRAND The Kioti LB 2204, imported from trees since trees are a woody species Korea, is a 22 hp diesel tractor with a which will be killed. number of design features intended to in- Spike is also available as a wettable crease operating efficiency, improve op- powder. Circle number 51 on the Reader erator comfort, and simplify mainte- Service Coupon. nance. In mid-1987 Kioti will add a 17 hp model to the line-up. The Kioti features front-wheel assist G&S WOOD FIRED and a fuel-efficient, water cooled 3-cy- FURNACE linder, 4-cycle low-vibration diesel en- The G&S Model KC36 hot air fur- gine. It comes with both front and rear nace, a new compact system rated at pto, 3-point, category-I hitch, and wet 800,000 Btu/hour output, is now avail- disk brakes. Under the top-opening hood, able from the G&S Mill Inc. of North- all service points are easy to reach. Op- borough, Massachusetts, a leading manu- tional equipment includes a power steer- facturer of high efficiency, industrial ing kit, front-end loader, and turf tires. wood energy systems. The Model KC36 A division of L.B. Industries of Boise, furnace can be used in woodworking Idaho, Kioti, an American-owned firm, SPIKE HERBICIDE shops, garages, greenhouse facilities, and has been working with representatives of Now you can eliminate brush and other small buildings. Korea's largest producer of agricultural weeds and even multiflora rose that The furnace is sold with firebox, heat equipment for the past three years in this choke fence rows and ditch banks by us- exchanger, fans, motors, temperature joint effort to develop internationally ing Spike 20P, a new herbicide from monitor, thermostat, 10' stack, and competitive products. Circle number 54 Elanco Products Company. Loaded in a clean-out tools. The system can be hand on the Reader Response Card. five-pound self-dispensing container, fired with wood fuel from 0 to 55% mois- Spike 20P is delivered in a measured ture content, or automatically fed with quarter-ounce dose of pellets, enough to wood chips, sawdust, or shavings through kill brush and keep it out of a 22-square- the use of a G&S Automatic Stoker Sys- foot area for three years or longer.