Management

July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024

To rent or procure any equipment and/or services listed below, contact us by calling your local Forestry Commission office to make a request for equipment and/or services.
Requests for equipment and services are accepted during normal business hours (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday); requests received after 2 p.m. may not be handled until the following business day.

Printable Services Guide (pdf)

Equipment rentals

Drum choppers	Tree planters	Temporary bridges
$20 per acre ($100 minimum) Transportation Fee: $3.50 per mile from SCFC headquarters in Columbia to and from the site ($50 minimum)	$5 per acre ($25 minimum)	Three 4′ x 30′ bridge sections, or Two 6′ x 30′ long sections $50 week / $200 deposit (see information below)

Temporary bridges program

Walterboro and Columbia. SCFC personnel will load the bridges onto contractors’ trailers, but they must be secured and transported by the contractor.

In order to rent the bridges, the contractor must obtain:

• workmen’s compensation insurance coverage for its own employees;
• public liability insurance with limits of $1 million for the injury to or death of one person, and $2
  million for the injury to or death of more than one person;
• property damage insurance with limits of $1 million arising out of a single accident and $2 million
  for damage to the property of third persons;
• an insurance certificate verifying coverage and identifying SCFC as an additional insured entity is
  required.
  

To request more information or to reserve a set of bridges, please contact SCFC Environmental Programs Coordinator Holly Welch at (803) 667-0815 or hwelch@scfc.gov.

Temporary Logging Bridge Rental Program

Free services

Insect & Disease (I&D) laboratory/diagnostic services

SCFC forest health specialists examine forest insect/disease pests or tissue samples at no charge. They will identify pests and prescribe appropriate control measures. The SC Forestry Commission does not charge for its insect- and disease-related diagnostic services.

Fee-based services

Firebreak plowing / waterbar construction

• Medium tractor duty: $165* for first hour, per tractor / $130 each extra hour, per tractor ($165 minimum)
• Large tractor duty: $185* for first hour, per tractor / $145 each extra hour, per tractor ($185 minimum)
  ^{* Includes mileage charge for each unit per day.}

Prescribed burning

• $30/acre for understory burning (firebreak plowing not included)
• $35/acre for understory burning in mountainous terrain and site preparation burning (firebreak plowing not included)
  _{* $500 minimum for all prescribed burning services}

Prescribed burning standby service

• $125* for first hour
• $45 for each additional hour
  _{*$125 minimum / includes mileage charge for each unit per day}

(landowner is responsible for fire and must follow an SCFC-approved burning plan) 

Extracting mired forestry equipment (limited to equipment performing forestry services)

• Medium tractor duty: $200* for first hour, per tractor / $160 each extra hour, per tractor ($200 minimum)
• Large tractor duty: $250* for first hour, per tractor / $175 each extra hour, per tractor ($250 minimum)
  ^{* Includes mileage charge for each unit per day.}

Timber marking

• Sawtimber: $10/MBF (thousand-board-feet)
• Pulpwood: $5/cord