Ditch digging with Timbro
Ditch cleaning is an important element within Timbro's service - smart forest management. Ditch cleaning is mandatory on the property if you do not want to suffer losses from damaged wood or not get the maximum benefit from the property. If ditches were created on the property, then there were important reasons for it, most likely related to the fact that the property is located in a wetter place where water needs to be drained so that the forest stand does not suffer.
Untimely ditch cleaning can lead to losses and create the following risks:
- It will significantly complicate logging and forest management or even make it impossible. You may have to wait for a very cold winter or a very dry summer, which turns into a game of chance and does not allow you to plan potential income from forest property.
- If there is a desire to hold a cutting area auction on your property, then a wet property can significantly reduce the number of interested parties and the offered price. Evaluating the logging conditions in nature and seeing that ditch cleaning has not been carried out and the property is wet, everyone will significantly reduce the offered price.
- Usually, wet forest properties will have lower bonitas, where trees grow slower and there are also risks that the wood will be of lower quality, which will give a much lower return to forest owners. And, of course, on the contrary, if timely ditch cleaning has been carried out, then the property will not be wet and the forest stand will grow faster and will be of better quality, which will give the owner the highest possible return.
- Wet properties like to be inhabited by a famous forest pest – beaver. If ditch cleaning is not carried out, then with high probability beavers can settle there and complicate the whole situation even more, because then beaver dams will also have to be regularly destroyed and beavers hunted.
