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Fulling logs across a road on his farm last week, Mr. Bird used Willy, a large, gray Percheron with a calm, rational manner, and Maggie, a smaller mare who was a little on the nervous, excitable side.
• The pair worked together as if they were one, each working off the other with Willy gaining momentum from Maggie’s determination and Maggie remaining calm thanks to Willy’s soothing manner. •
Carrying 85 pounds in leather gear, the horses were hitched to chains that were, in turn, attached to the logs.
Only a small trail of oveirturned soil and a few broken branches resulted as they removed several logs, working up a lather, but remaining obedient to his commands.
“You want to go slow enough so they don’t get scared and fast enough to get the job done,” he said. “You start with small ones and work up.”
The more popular way of logging involves mills bidding on trees, with the contract for taking down trees on a given property going usually to the highest bidder. While the landowner gets a bull| sum under this scenario, the mill “will take anything they can get,” Mr. Bird said.
With the Manierre-Bird method, the pair offers customers a myriad of ways to use the timber once it is recovered from the woods.
Portable sawmills make is feasible to turn the logs into fence boards,, siding or other building materials on the owner’s property directly after having been removed.
Owners can choose to have the logs sold to a lumber mill for the profit or arrange to have it treated and dried for furniture construction, Mr. Manierre said.
In wbodworking for 20 years, Mr. Manierre has a knack for evaluating potential uses — and the value — of timber
Landowners interested in acquire' ing their services can call Mr. Manierre at (540) 687-3633 or Mr. Bird at 675-3409.
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