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Originally Posted by special-K
Ask his friend, it's his friend's place. I figure a logger cuts the wood the same in any woods, trails or not. The tops get left where they lay and they remove what they came for.
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Well, normally whether it is a government or private timber sale, there is a contract specify what is to be taken/sold and how the work is to be performed. In MT there are state rules governing even private timber sales, primarily for the purpose fire prevention.
How it is done varies with region and type of timber. Back in CO on USFS sales of primarily lodgepole and spruce, we were required to lop the slash down to 2' above ground level (or
sometimes in practice just more or less level in a clear cut where the bulk of the slash would be deeper than that). Up here, the general practice is to skid whole trees and cut out the merchantable wood/logs at the landing, and the tops pushed into a big pile or piles to be burned when there is snow on the ground.
People with smaller tracts with a home on it often expect rather unrealistic results, especially in the immediate aftermath of logging, but I've never seen any timber sale contract that would allow the sort of mess left behind in this situation.