Timber Procurement

For questions, please contact VFP Procurement Manager Chris Barnett @ 601-994-3015

LOG SPECIFICATIONS 

Pine Small Chip-N-Saw: 10 inch butt minimum to 25 inch butt maximum with a minimum diameter inside bark of 6 inches or before ring knots. 

Minimum Length: 25 feet Maximum Length: 60 feet

Pine Sawtimber: 16 inch butt minimum to 25 inch butt maximum with a minimum diameter inside bark of 8 inches or before ring knots. 

Minimum Length: 33 feet Maximum Length: 60 feet

Pine Pre-Cuts: 16 inch butt minimum to 44 inch butt maximum with a minimum top of 14 inches. 

Minimum Length: 16 feet 4 inches Maximum Length: 16 feet 9 inches

Quality Specifications:

Butts

No butt damage

Sheared and split butts are not acceptable

Butt flare, swell, flags and butt spurs are not acceptable 

Knots

Knots should not exceed 4 inches

Limbs need to be trimmed flush with the tree

Ring knots and knot clusters are not acceptable

Taper/Sweep/Crook

Any 12 foot section should not taper more than 3 inches

Logs should have less than 3 inches of sweep in any 16 foot section

Double sweep and short crook in the middle of the stem should be removed

Forks/Doglegs

Forked logs must be cut prior to the fork (no stems with any visible signs there was ever a fork)

Stems should be cut before any dogleg

Catface/Blue Stain/Rot

Cat faces and cankers must be cut out of the stem

Logs should not contain blue stain, red heart or rot

Other

Metal in the logs will not be accepted

No vines or trash in the loads 

No high-grading of logs or “robbed butts” can be taken to other mills 

No juvenile wood

Logs should only be Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) – no spruce pine or field pine

No deadwood, insect-infested or fire-damaged stems

All butts should face the front of the truck for unloading

Weight Deductions

• Deductions will be made for any material not meeting specifications based on the estimated weight of the block or in the case of a total cull the entire stem will be put back on the truck

Cull Policy

• Culls will be loaded back on the truck they came in on or they become property of Vicksburg Forest Products, LLC (if your truck leaves without its culls they will not be re-loaded or returned)
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*** Vicksburg Forest Products reserves the right to change log specifications at any time for any reason and also reserves the right to reject any load at any time for any reason ***

Questions please contact Chris Barnett @ 601-994-3015