A LOT depends on what type of wood you're looking at harvesting... Generally speaking, in answer to your questions... 1. Nobody is using horses here. There might be the odd one still using a cable skidder. Anyone that's working in the woods is using a forwarder of some type. 2.Hardwoods... I'd expect to be topped out for firewood. Softwood... for fiber... is topped down to a minimal diameter and what's left is of no consequence spread around on the ground. Same for limbs. 3. Roads.... you can stipulate whatever you want. It's your land. What you get is another story. In general... unless someone else is paying for said road... see item 1. Wood is hauled as close to asphalt with forwarder as is possible. 4. They'd probably keep your driveway in some kind of repair if there's enough wood in there to make it worth their while.
Reality is this... in the softwood fiber market today there is NO money. If you get 10 dollars per cord, count yourself lucky. In sawlogs you might double that. In high grade hardwood... probably a lot more, to a point. But there again... are they only going to high grade the butt logs and leave the 75% firewood behind that doesn't make the grade? I've seen guys do that. That's a mess that will last 30 years and left half the value in the woods while the best was raped.
If you've got softwood for pulp/fiber... you can basically expect the area to be flattened and nothing of value left. Mabey not even the brush depending on wether or not the mill wants hog fuel.
What I can tell you... is that if you impose even half the conditions that some have suggested in this thread... your wood will rot on the stump.
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