Friday, January 17, 2014

The Operations Run By Log Buyers

By Marissa Velazquez


Log buyers are individuals who deal in timber and timber commodities. They are found in various parts of the world. There are those who do their activities in large scale, while others run their operations in small scale. Depending on their scale of operation, the returns of their ventures are highly varied.

When buying this wood, the customers may buy trees on a piece of land and get the logs from the trees. Here, the trees may be valued in terms of their quality as well as their age. The availability of a certain species may be also used to determine at how much clients get the timber at. Most people for some reason prefer making purchases of these commodities from the whole trees. This is for some reasons such as economy in terms of money.

Other people however may buy the trees that have already been cut down. Here, the owners charge them for both the trees as well as the money invested in cutting them down. Most people may not prefer this system, since they may get log types which have been kept for years thus losing their strength. Besides, the sellers may hike the cutting charges beyond what they spent, thus making it a disadvantage on the part of the customers.

Most people who buy these commodities do so for resale. They as such may retain some in their original form and sell them at a profit, or split some and sell them as timber. The clients to these people may be those running large construction activities or those running some furniture making shops. Among all the business people, these one are the ones who make the largest amounts of profits.

However, some may make purchases on their own account. Since these are large scale purchases, these clients may be the kinds running ventures such as real estate construction. Construction activities are the kinds that require very particular kinds of wood. As such, the customers must be very keen on the kinds of wood they buy from their sellers. This nature of transaction is preferred, since the quality of wood is ascertained.

There are a number of merits associated with the activities run by these individuals. Among then merits include those such as immense profits made by the sellers. The ones who serve as middlemen also make timber more available to clients who may need it for construction purposes. When the tree cutting activity is controlled by the right authorities, it is also done in such a way to ensure that forests are not depleted.

Some of these activities may however be very dangerous. This in most cases is if they are not controlled by the right authorities. In these cases they may be done beyond the acceptable limits, thus leading to depletion of forest cover. The middlemen at times may also exploit their clients in terms of prices, as well as timber quality.

Log buyers usually need to be monitored on how they run their tree cutting activities. This is a task that has been taken up by the governments of most countries. With these governments keeping these clients in check, the forest covers of their countries are safeguarded.




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