Pleasant Valley, Oregon
Logging & Land Clearing Project

Project Summary:

This project involved full-service logging and land clearing on 15–20 acres of mature, densely timbered farmland. Rieger Logging cruised the timber to establish value for the landowner, then harvested the merchantable timber before transitioning to land clearing. Large-diameter stumps were quartered and removed, brush was piled and burned, and the acreage was leveled — delivering productive farmland ready for planting in a single growing season.

Project Details:

The Pleasant Valley project is a great example of what Rieger Logging does best: managing every phase of a logging and land clearing operation so the landowner can focus on what comes next.

A farmer who had recently purchased a property approached us with 15–20 acres of old-growth timber he wanted converted to productive farmland. Before any equipment moved, Coby personally cruised the timber — walking the stand and estimating volume — so the landowner had a clear picture of what the timber was worth before harvesting began. That kind of transparency up front sets the tone for the entire project.

The stand presented a real challenge: the timber was thick and dense, with a significant portion of the trees measuring four to five feet in diameter. Trees of that size don’t just create a harvesting challenge — they leave behind stumps that require the right equipment and technique to remove efficiently. Our team quartered the large stumps to clear the packed dirt from the root system, which allows them to burn hotter and faster. The brush was piled alongside the stumps and burned together, streamlining the clearing process and leaving behind a clean, level surface.

From there, the acreage was graded and leveled, and within a short time the farmer had a crop in the ground right on schedule for planting season.

Land clearing projects like this one are deeply rewarding. There are a lot of moving parts to manage in order to keep a project like this running efficiently — but when it comes together and a landowner walks away with productive ground where there was once a wall of timber, that’s exactly the kind of outcome we work toward.