AXE USA · Operated by Leo Alatus LLC

Member Manual

How to use AXE USA: what every part of it does, what it costs, and the exact steps for your trade. One document, start to finish - print it and keep it in the truck.

Edition
Edition 1
Prepared
August 16, 2026
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August 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Every AXE USA member
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How to read this

  • Read the first chapter. It covers the parts everybody uses, so the trade chapters after it stay short.
  • Then read your own chapter. If you are signed in, this page already opened at it.
  • Nothing here is locked. Scroll to any chapter you like - a landowner who also runs a crew should read both.
  • Every step tells you what should happen. If something different happens, that is worth reporting.

Printing it

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  • Choose Letter or A4, portrait, and leave the scale at 100%.
  • The navigation, the jump bar, and every link color drop out on their own. What prints is black text on white paper.
  • Turn on “Background graphics” only if you want the shaded boxes. It reads fine without them.

Nobody on this site has been checked - including you.

AXE USA is a place to be found and to find people. It is not an inspector and it is not a referee. We do not verify, vet, validate, check, screen, or approve any person, business, crew, insurance policy, or license - not once, not on a schedule, not even for the ones that look wrong. Every license number, insurance carrier, crew size, acreage figure, and year count on this site is what that business typed in about itself. When a listing says “documents on file” it means exactly one thing: that business uploaded paperwork about itself and we stored it. It does not mean we read it, called the insurer, or rang the state board. So before you put anybody on your ground or hand anybody a check, ask them for the certificate yourself, and call the number on it. The site will hand you their paperwork in one click - it will never tell you the paperwork is good.

Words you will see on this site

ListedIt is on the board. That is all it means.
Under reviewSubmitted. Nobody has made the listing decision yet.
Sent backIt was not listed, and the reason is written on it. Fix it and save, and it goes back in the queue.
Documents on fileThat business uploaded paperwork about itself. Nobody at AXE USA has confirmed any of it.
Self-reportedThey typed it in. Nobody checked it.

Before you hire anybody. Ask for the certificate of insurance and the license, call the numbers on them yourself, and put your agreement in writing. AXE USA is not a party to it and holds no money on either side.

1Start here: the parts everybody uses

Everybody with an AXE USA account, whatever your trade. Read this first.

Five things work the same way for everyone on this site: getting an account, filling in your profile, putting your paperwork on file, getting hold of another member, and the jobs board. They are written out once here so the chapter for your own trade can stay short.

Creating your account

  1. Open /register and sign up with your email and a password.

    You should seeIt is free, and it is the only sign-up path on the site. You are signed in straight away - no application, no queue, and nothing waiting on approval.

  2. Click your name at the top right and choose “My account” (/profile).

    You should seeYour details, the trades you work in, and the panel where you post listings and hold memberships.

  3. Set the trades that match your business.

    You should seeSome plans are only sold to certain trades. Try to buy one on the wrong kind of account and you are refused with a message naming the trades it is for - add the trade at /profile and it goes through.

  4. If you are ever locked out, open /forgot-password or /recovery-code.

    You should seeA reset link is emailed to the address on your account. Give it a few minutes and check the spam folder; if it never arrives, use /contact to get back in.

Worth knowing

  • No card is charged today. Card payments are not connected yet, so every membership you take out activates immediately, free, and you are never asked for a card. The prices printed on /memberships are what will be charged the day payments are switched on.
  • Email is how the site reaches you - reset links, job alerts, a repair shop being paged - and it is the only channel: no text messages and no badge in the header. Keep the address on your account current, and when something matters, open your own board as well rather than waiting on a message.
  • Every state filter takes either spelling - “AL” and “Alabama” find the same rows. On the directory pages the state and type dropdowns apply as soon as you pick a value; there is no separate Filter button to press.

Filling out your profile

  1. Open /profile and find the “My listings” panel.

    You should seeA picker covering the main listing types: tools and supplies, heavy equipment, for sale by owner, rentals, services, land for sale, and hunting leases. This is where you post, edit, and take down anything you have on a browse page.

  2. Find the memberships panel on the same page.

    You should seeEvery plan you hold, and what each one covers. This is also where you cancel one. /memberships is the catalog and prints today's price for each plan.

  3. Add a license number and an insurance carrier if you intend to bid on work.

    You should seeSaved on your profile. Bids on timber-harvest and conservation work are refused without them, and the refusal names exactly which one is missing.

Worth knowing

  • Recording a license number is you telling us, on the record. We pass it on unchanged. It is not us checking it, and it never becomes a badge.

Putting documents on file

  1. Click your name and choose “My credentials” (/my-credentials).

    You should seeYour own licenses, insurance certificates, and other paperwork, listed as records you control.

  2. Add a credential and attach the PDF.

    You should seeThe file saves and appears on the card. If you attach nothing, the record still saves as a typed claim with no document behind it.

  3. Create a share link and send it to the one customer who asked for it.

    You should seeThat link expires. It hands your paperwork to the person you chose, not to the whole site.

Worth knowing

  • Nothing on this site is locked or unlocked by what is on file here. Documents on file is filing, not a test. It does not raise your posting allowance, it does not rank you higher, and it does not put a mark on your listing.
  • The same is true in reverse: when you are the one hiring, “documents on file” on somebody else's listing tells you paperwork arrived. It tells you nothing about whether it is current, genuine, or enough.

Getting hold of another member

  1. Open the directory for what you need: /find-crews, /find-professionals, or /find-lenders.

    You should seeThe phone number and email are on the card. You ring them yourself - there is no inbox on AXE USA and no message to wait on.

  2. Sign in first if a directory turns you away.

    You should seeThose three directories ask for a sign-in. The contact details are the whole point of the page, so it asks who you are rather than showing you cards with the numbers stripped out.

  3. Read what a card shows before you call.

    You should seeTwo places hold contact details back on purpose. On the repair board a shop sees your city, state, and rough postcode area only - awarding the job is what releases your phone number and exact location, and only to the shop you picked. On the bid board the tract address, gate notes, visit window, and your phone number go only to accounts that can bid on that request.

  4. Use /contact when you need AXE USA itself rather than another member.

    You should seeIt reaches the office. It is not a way to message another member.

Posting a job, or answering one

  1. Open /jobs without signing in.

    You should seeBoth boards are readable by anybody: jobs offered, and people offering themselves. Nothing on either board is behind a paywall.

  2. Sign in on a free account and post a job.

    You should seeIt publishes. A free account may keep one job on the board at a time - a second one is refused with a message telling you to edit or remove the first. Nothing is charged, now or later.

  3. Hold any membership plan and post again.

    You should seeSeveral of your jobs can be up at once. Three postings a month are included, and each one past that carries a small per-posting fee. The form prints the exact figure and refuses to post until you tick the box agreeing to it. No charge is ever silent.

  4. Post yourself on the talent board.

    You should seeIt publishes straight away, under your first name and last initial. One listing per person - a second is refused until you edit or remove the first. Free on any account, with or without a plan.

  5. Submit a form with something missing, on purpose.

    You should seeThe form names the missing fields. It never grays the button out and leaves you guessing.

  6. Report a posting that should not be there.

    You should seeIt lands in the moderation queue, where a posting can be hidden.

Worth knowing

  • A posting expires after 60 days and can be renewed in its last 14.
  • What you may post is decided by your membership alone. Nothing about your paperwork changes it.

2Landowners and hunters

You own ground - forty acres or four thousand - or you hunt it. You want timber sold, a lease let, or a tract in front of buyers.

Five things you can do here: put a harvest out to sealed bid, hire a professional for work on the ground, lease hunting ground, sell a tract yourself, and - if hunting is your trade - put your own card on the board. Posting a bid request costs nothing, and neither does asking for a professional.

Selling timber by sealed bid

  1. Open /get-bids.

    You should seeThe live bid board is the first thing under the header, not a sales pitch. Open requests are grouped as Timber Harvest, Subcontract Work, Replant, and Financing, each with a count. A group with nothing in it is hidden rather than shown empty.

  2. Scroll one screen to the request form.

    You should seeThe form to post your own request sits directly under the board.

  3. Sign in, then fill it in: tract, acres, species, timing, and how you want to be reached.

    You should seeIt saves and appears on the board under Timber Harvest. Nobody has to approve it first, and it costs nothing.

  4. Wait for bids, then open your request from /profile.

    You should seeThe bids are sealed. You cannot read any of them - and neither can the bidders - until you close the request. Each bidder gets one bid, not several.

  5. Close the request and award it to one bidder.

    You should seeThe winner is told, and the request comes off the open board.

Worth knowing

  • Anybody bidding on timber-harvest work holds a paid Contractor Bidding plan and has a license number and an insurance carrier recorded on their profile. Those are that bidder's own claims. Ask for the certificates before you sign anything.
  • Land management as a biddable category does not exist yet. Today the board covers timber harvest, subcontract work, replanting, and financing only.

Telling a bidder where the tract is

  1. Fill in the “where it is and who to call” part of the request: street or road address, nearest town, parcel number, how to get in at the gate, whether you want a walk-through, when somebody can come, and the name and phone number to ring.

    You should seeSaved with the request. A bidder is expected to come and look at your timber before he prices it, and he cannot do that from a county name.

  2. Open your own request from a signed-out window, and again from an account with no bidding plan.

    You should seeBoth see the nearest town, the acreage, the county, and whether you want a walk-through. Neither sees the address, the parcel number, the gate notes, the visit window, or your name and phone number. The card says plainly that those go only to accounts that can bid on this request, and names the plan that opens them.

  3. Look at the same request from an account holding the bidding plan for that category.

    You should seeThe address, the parcel number, the gate notes, the visit window, and your phone number are all readable. That account can come and walk the tract.

Worth knowing

  • You cannot edit the site details on a request you have already posted - there is no screen for it yet. A wrong address or an old phone number has to come through /contact today. Check that block before you submit.

After the harvest: replanting

  1. Open the awarded timber sale and look for the replant handoff.

    You should seeIt offers to turn itself into a replant request with your tract details already filled in.

  2. Post the replant request.

    You should seeFree to post, and free for a planting crew to bid on. It appears on the bid board under Replant.

  3. Browse /reforestation/providers instead if you would rather call somebody direct.

    You should seeNurseries, planting crews, and consulting foresters who have listed themselves, with their own contact details.

Worth knowing

  • Separate from the providers who list themselves, the business directory at /directory keeps a list of tree seedling nurseries built from public records - state-run nurseries and commercial growers, coast to coast - under its “Tree seedling nurseries” type filter. Nobody at those nurseries asked to be listed, so treat the details as somebody else's published records and call before you drive.

Hiring a professional: post what you need

  1. Open /service-requests - it is “Hire a Pro” in the navigation.

    You should seeThe whole form is readable without signing in: the kinds of work you can ask for - a management plan, a timber appraisal, a boundary survey, a burn plan and the rest - the state and county, the acreage, and the block where you put your name, phone, and email.

  2. Read the notice above the contact block before you type anything.

    You should seeIt says plainly that your name, phone number, and email are released to every listed professional this request matches, and that handing them out is what posting does. All three are required. What it also says: none of it travels in an email. The professional gets a notice that work exists and has to sign in to his own account to read who you are. If you would rather not give out your number at all, do not post.

  3. Tick the work you need, pick the state and county, describe the job in your own words, then sign in and post it.

    You should seeIt saves and tells you how many listed professionals it reached. Nobody approves it first, and it costs nothing - there is no fee on either side of this.

  4. Go looking for your request on a board.

    You should seeThere is not one, and that is the point. Your request is never published anywhere: no board, no public list, no search result. The professionals whose own cards say they do that work in your state are notified, and nobody else is. That is what makes it different from /get-bids.

  5. Open your own request again and read the panel showing who it reached.

    You should seeHow many matched, how many have been notified, how many are still waiting out the 24-hour delay, and any address the notice could not be delivered to. A failed delivery is shown as undeliverable rather than counted as an introduction.

  6. Leave it up and check back in a few days.

    You should seeA professional who publishes his card after you posted is introduced to your request too, for as long as it is live. You do nothing - the site re-checks live requests against the directory on its own.

  7. Close a request once you have found your man.

    You should seeIt stops reaching anybody new straight away. The introductions already made stay on your record, and those professionals keep the lead in their own accounts, because they were already told to call you. Pressing close a second time is not an error.

Worth knowing

  • Two things decide who hears about your request, and both are read off the professional's own card: at least one kind of work in common, and your state being either his home state or one of the states he says he serves. There is no distance, no county radius, and no ranking.
  • Ten live requests at a time. Ones you closed and ones that aged out do not count against it. A request goes stale by itself after 60 days.
  • Nothing is bid on, sealed, or awarded here, and no money moves in either direction. AXE USA introduces the two of you and then steps out of the way - we do not check licenses, insurance, references, or work quality, and we are not a party to whatever you agree. Ask for the license and the certificate of insurance and call the numbers on them yourself.
  • There is no inbox on this site. He reads your details on his own leads page, then rings your phone or writes to your email direct, and it is between the two of you from there.

Leasing hunting ground

  1. Open /hunting-leases the way a hunter would.

    You should seeThe page opens with the tracts themselves and the search, not with a sales panel.

  2. Sign in, open /profile, and post a hunting-lease tract.

    You should seeYou are asked for the Hunting Lease Tract plan first. Because card payments are not switched on, it activates free and no card is requested. The plan is sold by the tract, so your active lease listings are capped at the number of tracts you hold - a third tract means a third unit on the plan. /memberships prints today's price.

Worth knowing

  • Somebody who leases and manages other people's ground as a business takes the Lease Operator seat instead - one office, for an outfitter or lease manager rather than a landowner listing his own back forty.

Selling land yourself

  1. Open /land.

    You should seeLand for sale, with the listings and the search first. The address is /land - there is no /land-for-sale page.

  2. Sign in, open /profile, and post a for-sale-by-owner land listing.

    You should seeFree, up to three active at a time. It appears on /land straight away.

Worth knowing

  • Selling land professionally on behalf of others is a different seat - see the real estate chapter.

Hunters: put your own card on the board

  1. Click your name and choose “My industry profiles” (/my-profiles).

    You should seeFour kinds of card are offered: hunter, forester, land management company, and forestry company. You may hold one of each, so a single login can publish all four - and a kind you already hold is not offered again.

  2. Start a hunter card and fill it in.

    You should seeThe questions follow the kind you picked. A hunter is asked which game he hunts; a forestry company is not asked at all.

  3. Publish it.

    You should seeIt is listed on the spot. No application, no queue, no staff step, and no badge. The card reads “Listed” with the date it went up. Try to publish with something missing and it is refused with the missing items named - the button is never grayed out leaving you to guess.

  4. Have a friend sign in and open /find-professionals.

    You should seeYour card is searchable by kind, state, service, game, years in the trade, and the certifications you listed, with your phone number and email on it so a member can ring you. A signed-out visitor cannot open that page at all.

Worth knowing

  • Every line on the card is your own claim, and the card says so to whoever reads it.
  • Take a card down and it goes back to a draft, dropping out of the directory the same moment. Deleting it frees that kind up so you can start a fresh one.

3Loggers and crews

You run crews and iron - cut-and-skid, log trucks, planting, mulching. You want work to bid on and a phone that rings.

Two separate ways to get work here, and you can run both. Free: list your crew so companies find you and offer you subcontract work directly. Paid: take a bidding seat and put sealed bids on tracts and corporate jobs.

Getting listed as a crew - free

  1. Sign in, click your name, and choose “My crew listing” (/crew-profile).

    You should seeOne form: who you are, what work you take, what iron you run, which counties you will drive to, and what insurance you carry.

  2. Publish it.

    You should seeIt goes live immediately. There is no application, no queue, no waiting, and no badge - you publish your own listing. Listing is free at launch; there is no plan to buy.

  3. Choose who may find the listing.

    You should seeOpen to anybody, or to commercial operators only. Set it to companies only and a member who could not hire you never sees the listing at all - it is hidden, not teased.

  4. Sign in as another account and open /find-crews to see yourself.

    You should seeYour crew is searchable by work type, equipment, state, crew size, and insurance, with your contact details on the card so a company can call you directly.

Worth knowing

  • Every field on the listing is your own claim. The company hiring you does its own checking - that is stated on the page a company searches from.
  • Staff can pull a crew listing off the board for fraud, abuse, or your own request, and put it back later. Staff have no power at all over work two businesses agreed between themselves.

Saying when you are free

  1. On /crew-profile, set your availability: open now, limited, booked, or not taking work.

    You should seeSaved as your own statement. Add the day you open back up and one line of context - “finishing a tract near Demopolis” - and both show on your card.

  2. Update it from the phone when the job changes.

    You should seeThe date stamp on your statement only moves when the statement itself actually changes. Re-saving the same form, or editing your phone number, does not make a five-week-old answer look like today's.

  3. Leave it alone for over a month.

    You should seeYour card starts printing the neutral fact that it has not been updated in over a month. It is not a mark against you and it never hides your listing - a crew that never touches availability stays listed and fully searchable.

Worth knowing

  • Availability is never guessed from the work you have accepted here. A crew mid-job may well have a second machine free, and the site will not answer that for you.

Work offered to you

  1. When a company invites your crew to a job, open “Work offered to my crew” (/crew-work).

    You should seeThe invitation, with the dates they are asking for.

  2. Accept, decline, or counter with your own dates.

    You should seeThe other side sees your answer on their own page. If they accept your counter, the agreed dates are yours - not their original ask. Every step is kept in a history that nothing rewrites.

Worth knowing

  • There is no rate, payment, escrow, or dispute process on an engagement. Money stays between the two businesses, off the platform, on purpose. AXE USA holds nothing and settles nothing.

Bidding on tracts

  1. Open /get-bids and read the board.

    You should seeOpen requests grouped as Timber Harvest, Subcontract Work, Replant, and Financing, newest first inside each group.

  2. Open any request before you hold a plan and look for the tract.

    You should seeYou get the nearest town, the county, the acreage, and whether the owner wants a walk-through - enough to decide if it is in your haul radius. The address, the gate notes, the visit window, and the owner's phone number are locked, with a sentence naming the plan that opens them.

  3. Open /memberships and take the seat that fits the work.

    You should seeThree bidding seats, one per kind of work: Contractor Bidding for timber harvest, Conservation Bidding for conservation-practice work, and Subcontractor Bidding for corporate subcontract work. Each is sold per crew location and priced for one state, with a ladder for more - one price to start, a set amount for each extra state, and a flat price for every state AXE USA sells, so a crew working the whole South never pays more than the whole-country figure. Every figure is on the card.

  4. Add your license number and insurance carrier at /profile, then bid.

    You should seeWithout them the bid is refused with a message naming what is missing. With them the bid goes through.

  5. Open that same request again with the plan active.

    You should seeThe address, the parcel number, the gate notes, when you may come, and the owner's name and phone number are all readable, so you can go and look at the timber before you price it. If the owner never typed directions in, the card says so instead of showing blanks.

  6. Submit your bid.

    You should seeOne bid per request, per bidder. Nobody - not you, not the other bidders, not the landowner - can read any bid until the landowner closes the request.

Worth knowing

  • Recording your license and insurance is not us checking them. It is you telling us, on the record, and we pass it on unchanged.

Taking subcontract work from a company

  1. Look under Subcontract Work on /get-bids for corporate jobs out to bid.

    You should seeCompany-posted work in its own group, bid the same sealed way as a timber tract.

  2. Take Subcontractor Bidding if you want to bid on these regularly.

    You should seeNo cap on how many you bid. The seat is sold per crew location, same as the others.

  3. Look for the single-job pass instead if you are not ready for a monthly seat.

    You should seeA one-job contract bid pass. The price of the pass is printed on the job before you commit to it.

4Foresters and land services

You are a consulting forester or a land services outfit - site prep, mulching, firebreaks, prescribed burning, planting.

Three parts. Listing your practice so landowners and companies find you is free and takes about ten minutes. That same listing is also what puts landowners' requests for work into your email, without you searching for anything. Bidding on conservation and harvest work is a paid seat, and it wants your license and insurance on the record first.

Listing your practice - free

  1. Click your name and choose “My industry profiles” (/my-profiles).

    You should seeFour kinds of card: hunter, forester, land management company, and forestry company. You may hold one of each, so one login can publish a forester card and a land management card side by side.

  2. Start a forester card and fill it in.

    You should seeThe questions change with the kind you picked - the services offered, the certifications, and what the years-in-the-trade question is even called all follow the kind, so you are never asked something that does not apply to you.

  3. Publish it.

    You should seeListed on the spot. No application, no queue, no staff step, and no badge. The card reads “Listed” with the date it went up.

  4. Try to publish with a required answer still blank.

    You should seeRefused, with the card listing exactly what is missing. The button is never grayed out leaving you to guess.

  5. Sign in on another account and search /find-professionals.

    You should seeYour card is findable by kind, state, service, years in the trade, and the certifications you listed, with your phone and email on it. A signed-out visitor cannot open that page at all - the contact details are the point of it.

Worth knowing

  • Every certification, license, and year count on the card is your own claim. The card says so and tells whoever reads it to ask you for the paperwork himself.
  • There is no staff desk over these cards yet. Getting one taken down for cause has to come through /contact.

Work that comes to you: landowner requests

  1. Publish the forester or land management card described above, with the services you actually offer and every state you work in.

    You should seeThat card is the whole reason you hear about anything here. A landowner posting at /service-requests - “Hire a Pro” in the navigation - describes the work he needs and names his state; the site notifies the listed foresters, land management outfits, and forestry companies whose cards cover that work in that state. You do not search for these and there is nothing to subscribe to. Hunter cards are not in it - a lease is not contract work.

  2. Check your email.

    You should seeA notice, not a contact card: your business name, the landowner's own description of the job, what he asked for, the state and county the ground is in, the services of yours that matched, and a button to the lead. His name, phone number, and email are not in it. We keep people's numbers off email and behind your sign-in.

  3. Press the button in that email - or click your name and choose “Leads sent to me” (/my-leads) if you deleted it.

    You should seeThe lead opens signed in, marked as the one from your email, with his name, phone, and email on it. Every request you have ever been introduced to is on that page, newest first. The number beside the menu entry is how many of those requests are still open. There is nothing to accept or decline: you ring him, or you do not.

  4. Follow that button on a phone that is signed out, or with the tab closed.

    You should seeSign-in first, then it drops you on that same lead - the link carries the request through, so you do not land on a page you have to go hunting through.

  5. Work out why a particular request reached you.

    You should seeBoth the email and the lead on /my-leads quote it back: your listing under that service, in that state. Two things had to line up - one kind of work in common, and his state being either your home state or one of the states you say you serve. There is no distance and no county radius, so a request from the far corner of a big state still reaches you.

  6. Count the days between the request being posted and your notice.

    You should seeAbout one. An introduction is held 24 hours for an account with no membership on it, then sent. The site checks for due introductions every quarter of an hour, so the wait ends within minutes of the promised time even if nothing else happened in between.

  7. Add a service to your card, or a state, and leave it a while.

    You should seeRequests already sitting open that now match you are introduced to you as well. You are not only reachable by landowners who post after you list.

  8. Decide you want no more of these.

    You should seeEdit your card and untick “Email me when a landowner asks for this work” in the “what you bring” step. The introductions stop and nothing else changes - you stay listed and landowners can still find you and ring you at /find-professionals. Narrowing the services and states on the card, or taking it down entirely, are the blunter versions of the same thing.

Worth knowing

  • A membership decides when you hear, never whether you hear. Every listed card that matches gets the introduction; an account with a live membership gets it immediately and everyone else the next day. Card payments are not switched on, so nobody is being charged for the head start today - plan on hearing the day after he posted.
  • Nothing here is bid on, sealed, or awarded, and AXE USA takes no fee from either side of it. The landowner's contact details are released to you in full, with nothing held back, because the point of him posting is to be called - but they are read on /my-leads signed in, never in the email. The email says work exists; the site says who to call.
  • You are not the only one who got it. Everybody whose card matches that work and that state receives the same introduction, so the call you make in the first hour is worth more than the one you make on Friday.
  • The landowner can close his request at any time, and one goes stale on its own after 60 days. An old email in your inbox is not proof the job is still open - ring him and find out.

Conservation and land-services work

  1. Open /land-services.

    You should seeA clear choice: post a project for sealed bids, or go to the board and bid on one. If nothing is out to bid it says so plainly rather than looking broken.

  2. Take the Conservation Bidding seat from /memberships to bid on that work.

    You should seeIt covers USDA conservation-practice projects - firebreaks, site prep, prescribed burning. Sold per crew location, priced for one state with the same ladder for more states, and it carries the same license and insurance requirement as Contractor Bidding.

  3. Take Contractor Bidding as well if you also bid timber harvests.

    You should seeThey are separate seats for separate kinds of work. Holding one does not let you bid the other.

  4. Put your license number and insurance carrier on /profile, then bid.

    You should seeWithout them the bid is refused with a message naming what is missing.

Worth knowing

  • Land management as a biddable category does not exist yet. If your work is land management rather than a conservation practice, a timber harvest, a replant, or corporate subcontract work, there is no group on the bid board for it today - list your card at /my-profiles and take the calls that way.

Replanting work

  1. Open /reforestation and list yourself as a provider.

    You should seeFree. Nurseries, planting crews, and consulting foresters all list on the same page and show at /reforestation/providers.

  2. Watch the Replant group on /get-bids.

    You should seeReplant requests posted by landowners, often handed straight across from a harvest they just closed. Posting one is free and so is bidding on one.

Working as a subcontractor

  1. Publish a crew listing at /crew-profile as well.

    You should seeFree, and it is a different door: companies search /find-crews by work type, equipment, state, crew size, and insurance, then invite you to a job with dates. You accept, decline, or counter with your own dates. The full walk-through is in the loggers chapter.

5Equipment dealers and repair shops

You sell iron, rent it out, or fix it - a dealership, a supply house, a rental yard, a shop, or a service truck.

Three doors. Selling and renting run on catalog seats you buy. Repair work runs on the service board and is free on both sides. If you also send crews out, the subcontract board is open to you too.

Getting your catalog on the site

  1. Open /marketplace to see where your listings will land.

    You should seeThree sections: tools and supplies, heavy equipment, and for-sale-by-owner. The page opens with the search and the live listings.

  2. Sign in, open /profile, and take the catalog seat that fits.

    You should seeThree seats that step up in size and placement: Shop Seller with standard placement in browse and search, Regional Seller with a deeper catalog and featured placement, and Enterprise Seller with the deepest catalog we sell and top-priority placement, sold per distribution location. Each card on /memberships prints its own price and its own listing cap.

  3. Post a listing.

    You should seeIt appears in the matching section straight away. Going past your plan's cap is refused with a message naming the cap.

  4. Try to take a seller plan from an account that is not a dealer, service company, or advertiser.

    You should seeRefused, with a message naming the trades the plan is for. Add the trade at /profile and it goes through.

Worth knowing

  • Enterprise Seller is the biggest catalog in a territory, per distribution location. It is not a nationwide dealer network on one seat.

Renting machines out

  1. Open /rentals.

    You should seeMachines offered by the day, week, or month, search first.

  2. List your first machines with no plan at all.

    You should seeThe first 3 active rental listings are free on any account - the same way hunting leases work. Nothing is charged until the fourth one.

  3. Take Fleet Rental once you are past the free 3.

    You should seeA yard's worth of rentals on one seat, out of one operating location - one city and one state. A chain with yards in four towns takes four seats.

Taking repair work

  1. Open /services/shop and fill in your shop profile.

    You should seeYour trades, where you are, and how far you will travel. Free. You create your own listing - AXE USA never writes one for a business that did not sign up.

  2. Open /services/shop/board.

    You should seeOnly the jobs that match your trades and your travel distance, each showing the distance from your shop and marked when it is new. Only the shops close enough to matter are paged, and the search widens if nothing near answers.

  3. Read a job before you respond to it.

    You should seeCity, state, and a rough postcode area. No exact address and no phone number. That is deliberate.

  4. Place a response and wait for the member to award it.

    You should seeAwarding is what releases the member's phone number and exact location, and only to you. Placing a response does not earn it.

  5. Do the work, then let the member rate you.

    You should seeOnly a member whose job you were awarded can rate you. He can revise the rating for 30 days, and you get one reply.

Worth knowing

  • Posting a repair job and answering one are both free. No membership is asked for anywhere in this flow.
  • Email is the only way a shop gets paged - no text messages, no badge in the header. The page is delivered to the address on your listing, but an email can be missed or filed, so opening your own board is still the habit that catches every job.

Bidding on subcontract work

  1. Look under Subcontract Work on /get-bids for corporate jobs out to bid.

    You should seeEquipment dealers and service companies can hold Subcontractor Bidding alongside loggers and foresters. No cap on how many you bid, and the seat is sold per crew location.

  2. Buy the single-job pass instead if you only want one of them.

    You should seeThe pass price is shown on the job before you commit to it.

6Timber companies and mills

You run harvests, hire crews, and buy services. You want one page for everything the company has running here.

Registering the company is free and gives you a console of your own. From there you put work out to bid, find crews and invite them with dates, and watch your service jobs and job postings in one place.

Registering the company

  1. Sign in, click your name, and choose “Company console” (/operations).

    You should seeIf you have not registered a company yet, the form to do it. If you have, one page showing crews you have engaged, work out to bid, service jobs, and job postings.

  2. Submit the company listing.

    You should seeIt shows as “Under review”. Staff either put it on the board - it then reads “Listed” - or send it back with a written note saying what to fix.

  3. Edit a sent-back listing and save it.

    You should seeIt goes straight back into the review queue.

  4. Read what the page says listing actually means.

    You should seeIt says in plain words that being listed means the listing is approved for the directory and nothing more. AXE USA does not check anyone's license, insurance, or ability - yours included.

Worth knowing

  • The console belongs to the account that created the company. There are no extra staff seats yet, so a second person at your company cannot open it. Plan who signs up.

Putting work out to bid

  1. Post subcontract work at /get-bids.

    You should seeIt appears under its own Subcontract Work group on the board. Posting costs nothing.

  2. Fill in where the work is and who to call: address, nearest town, parcel number, gate notes, whether you want a walk-through, when somebody may come, and a name and phone number.

    You should seeThe nearest town, county, acreage, and walk-through expectation are public, so a crew can judge its haul radius. The address, parcel number, gate notes, visit window, and phone number go only to accounts that can bid on the request.

  3. Wait for the bids, then close the request.

    You should seeEvery bid stays sealed from everybody until you close it, and each bidder gets one bid.

Worth knowing

  • You cannot yet edit the site details on a request you have already posted. A wrong address has to come through /contact - check that block before you submit.

Hiring crews

  1. Open /find-crews.

    You should seeSelf-listed crews searchable by work type, equipment, state, crew size, and insurance, with contact details on the card so you can call them directly.

  2. Invite a crew to a job with dates.

    You should seeThe invitation lands on that crew's “Work offered to my crew” page.

  3. Watch “Crews I put to work” (/my-crews) for the answer.

    You should seeAccepted, declined, or countered with different dates. If you accept their counter, the agreed dates are theirs, not your original ask. Every step is kept in a history that nothing rewrites.

Worth knowing

  • Every field on a crew listing is that crew's own claim. Ask for the certificate of insurance and call the carrier yourself before anybody sets foot on the tract.
  • There is no rate, payment, escrow, or dispute process on an engagement. Money stays between the two businesses, off the platform, on purpose.
  • Any signed-in account can invite a crew today - there is no gate that restricts hiring to a company account.

Services, repairs, and hiring hands

  1. Post a broken machine at /services/post.

    You should seeFree. Shops within driving distance are paged, and they see your city, state, and rough postcode area only until you award one of them the job.

  2. Post an opening on /jobs.

    You should seeWith a membership plan, three postings a month are included and each one past that carries a small per-posting fee that the form prints before you commit. Your postings show on the console alongside everything else.

7Lenders and financing

You write paper against timber, ground, or iron - a lending office, an insurance agency, a bank, a credit union, or a farm-credit association.

Two different things, and they are priced differently on purpose. Listing your desk in the directory is free. Bidding on a borrower's sealed request - and reading his address and phone number - is what the Lender Bidding seat buys. You will be asked about that distinction, so know it.

Listing your desk - free

  1. Sign in and open /finance-desk.

    You should seeYour own desk card: the products you write, the states you work, the smallest and largest deal you will look at, and your contact details.

  2. Publish it.

    You should seeListed the moment you publish. No queue, no review, and no cost.

  3. Sign in on another account and open /find-lenders.

    You should seeEvery listed lending and insurance desk, with contact details on the card. Signed-out visitors cannot open it.

Worth knowing

  • AXE USA is not a lender, a broker, an insurer, or an agent, and nothing on these pages is a quote. Your products, license numbers, rates, and turnaround times are what you typed in about yourself.
  • There is no staff desk over lending and insurance cards. Getting one taken down for cause comes through /contact.

How a request reaches you

  1. Look at what a borrower does at /financing: he picks a product and a state, names the amount, says where the collateral is and who to call, and posts.

    You should seeA sealed financing request on the bid board. Before he types anything else, the page tells him how many listed desks would see a request like this - a count with no names, so even a signed-out visitor gets it.

  2. Check that your desk card matches the work you want.

    You should seeA desk is matched on three things at once: the product it says it writes, the states it says it works, and whether the amount falls between the smallest and largest deal it will take. Miss any one of the three and you do not see the request.

  3. Read the ten products the borrower picks from.

    You should seeEquipment loan, equipment lease, timberland purchase loan, operating line of credit, bridge loan, timber deed financing, log truck financing, refinance, SBA loan, and landowner cost-share advance. That list comes off the server, so the words on his picker are the same words that route the request to you.

  4. Open the bid board yourself, regularly, and look under Financing.

    You should seeNew requests. This is the part to know: you are not told when a matching request lands - no notice goes out to lender desks when a borrower posts, so a borrower can be waiting on a desk that never knew the request existed. Checking the board is the job.

Worth knowing

  • If nobody has listed the product a borrower picked, his request still goes to every lending desk working that state, with a line on it saying plainly that nobody listed that product. A request is never dropped into a hole.

Bidding on a request

  1. Open a financing request before you hold a bidding seat.

    You should seeThe request is readable, but the street address, the access notes, and the borrower's phone number are locked, with a sentence naming what unlocks them.

  2. Take the Lender Bidding seat from /memberships.

    You should seeSold per desk. It is what lets you bid and read the borrower's address and phone number. /memberships prints today's price.

  3. Open the same request again and bid.

    You should seeThe address, the access notes, and the phone number unlock, and the bid goes through. The amount stays sealed from everybody - including the borrower - until the closing date passes.

Banks, credit unions, and farm-credit associations

  1. Open /memberships and pick Financial Institution instead if you have branch offices in more than one town.

    You should seeOne seat for the whole institution. Every branch office registers under it instead of buying another - this is the one place on the site where “unlimited” is written down, because branches genuinely are.

  2. Work through checkout and read what it asks for.

    You should seeYour EIN or NMLS / charter number, and the states the institution works. The number is stored exactly as you typed it. Nobody at AXE USA rings a regulator about it - it is self-reported, like everything else here.

  3. Pick your states on the coverage picker before you finish.

    You should seeA running price as you tick: one price for the first state, a set amount for each one after, and a flat price once the pick reaches every state AXE USA sells. Tick past the point where the ladder would cost more than the whole country and the seat moves up on its own - you cannot overpay by clicking one state at a time.

  4. With the seat active, open your memberships panel at /profile and find the branch registry.

    You should seeAdd a branch with its town, its state, its own NMLS or charter number, an optional office name, and a phone number. It lists straight away - no queue and no staff step.

  5. Try to register a branch in a state your seat does not cover.

    You should seeRefused before it even reaches the server, with a message telling you to add that state to your coverage first. A branch cannot reach ground the seat is not paying for.

  6. Register a second branch in a town you already have one in.

    You should seeRefused as a duplicate. One office per town per seat - the registry is a directory of places, not a list of desks.

Worth knowing

  • The registry is a directory and nothing more. It makes an office findable and hands a borrower a phone number; it grants no extra rights. What the institution may do comes from the seat's coverage states.
  • A one-office lender does not need this seat. Publishing a desk at /finance-desk is free, and Lender Bidding is the cheaper way to bid. This plan exists so a bank with forty branches is one customer instead of forty.
  • Every branch number is your own claim. AXE USA does not confirm a charter, an NMLS number, or an EIN, and no page on the site says otherwise.

8Real estate agents and advertisers

You list land professionally on somebody else's behalf, or you want your business in front of the people who read this site.

Two different customers in one chapter, because both are buying placement rather than selling their own ground. An agent needs a real estate seat; an advertiser buys a catalog seat. Everything else on the site is open to you the same as anybody.

Listing land as an agent

  1. Open /land to see where your listings land.

    You should seeLand for sale, listings and search first. The address is /land - there is no /land-for-sale page.

  2. Open /memberships and take the Real Estate Agent seat.

    You should seeLand listings from one office - one city, one state, one office. It carries a listing cap, and /memberships prints both the cap and today's price.

  3. Put your real estate license on file.

    You should seeRequired for this seat. Every one of your listings then names that license and the employing brokerage, because every state AXE USA operates in requires the brokerage on a property advertisement.

Worth knowing

  • The license on file is still your own claim. AXE USA does not check a license with any state board, and no listing of yours will say we did.
  • A landowner selling his own tract does not need this seat - for-sale-by-owner listings are free, up to three at a time.

A brokerage with more than one agent

  1. Take the Real Estate Brokerage seat instead if you are the firm rather than a solo agent.

    You should seeOffice branding on every listing, leads routed to the office, all the firm's agents under one roof, and the office keeps its listings when an agent leaves.

  2. Count your offices before you buy.

    You should seeOne seat per office. A firm with three offices takes three, and an agent working several offices takes the brokerage seat rather than stacking agent seats.

  3. Put the broker-of-record number on file.

    You should seeRequired for the seat. Self-reported, like everything else.

Advertisers: what you can buy today

  1. Open /memberships and look at the three catalog seats.

    You should seeShop Seller, Regional Seller, and Enterprise Seller are sold to equipment dealers, service companies, and advertisers alike. They step up in catalog size and in placement: standard, featured, then top priority in browse and search.

  2. Set your account trade to advertiser at /profile before you buy.

    You should seeA seller plan taken from an account that is not a dealer, a service company, or an advertiser is refused with a message naming the trades it is for.

  3. Post your listings.

    You should seeThey appear in the matching Marketplace section straight away. Going past your plan's cap is refused with a message naming the cap.

Worth knowing

  • Be told plainly: those three catalog seats are the whole of what you can buy self-serve today. There is no advertising console, no banner you can purchase yourself, and no sponsorship checkout. Anything beyond a catalog seat means talking to AXE USA through /contact.

9Partner organizations

A forestry association, certification program, conservation nonprofit, soil-and-water district, agency, or extension service.

Your profile is free, permanently, and AXE USA never takes a cut of your dues. What it buys you is reach: landowners and operators in the states you serve, and a lead inbox of your own.

Applying

  1. Open /associations to see what the public sees.

    You should seeOrganizations, plus their legislative alerts, continuing-education classes, and program deadlines, filterable by state. Each state also has its own page at /associations/ and the state code.

  2. Apply at /associations/apply.

    You should seeA free application. The Partner Organization profile costs nothing, permanently.

  3. Open /associations/console before the application is decided.

    You should seeYou can edit your profile and stage your branding, but you cannot publish yet. Publishing unlocks once staff approve the organization for listing.

Worth knowing

  • Approving an organization for listing is a decision about whether you are a real organization that speaks for itself. It is not a check of anything you publish, and it is not an endorsement of your position on anything.

What you can publish once listed

  1. Publish a legislative alert from the console.

    You should seeIt shows on /associations and on your state's page. Alerts are capped per organization per calendar month - hit the cap and you get a message naming the month and the limit rather than the alert silently disappearing.

  2. Publish a class, a deadline, or an announcement.

    You should seeNo cap at all on those three. The monthly cap is on legislative alerts only.

Leads and dues

  1. Have a member request information from your organization's page.

    You should seeThe lead lands in your inbox inside the console.

  2. Point your dues link at your own membership page.

    You should seeThat is exactly what it does - it sends people to you. No money moves through AXE USA, and we never collect or take a share of your dues.

10What things cost

Every figure below was read off the live catalog when this page loaded - the same catalog /membershipsprices from. Nothing in this manual carries a price of its own, so a printed copy can go stale but it can never be quietly wrong: the date it was priced is on the front.

No card is being charged today. Card payments are not connected yet, so every plan taken out right now activates immediately, free, and never asks for a card. The prices below are what will be charged the day payments are switched on.

  • A launch window is running right now (FREE DURING LAUNCH), so a member starting today pays the "today" column, not the list price.
  • Founding member rate: 94 founder seats left, each 50% off list for 5 years, counted from the day the grace period ends and billing starts.
PlanPriceWhat it covers
Crew BiddingFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $49.00 / month per crew locationCovers up to 33 states. No cap on active listings.One state to start at $49.00 / month, $25.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $196.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Enterprise SellerFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $99.00 / month per locationUp to 250 active listings. Covers up to 33 states.One state to start at $99.00 / month, $50.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $396.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Financial InstitutionFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $299.00 / month per institutionCovers up to 33 states. One operating location - buy a seat per yard or branch. No cap on active listings. Every branch office registered under the one seat, at no extra charge.One state to start at $299.00 / month, $150.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $1196.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Fleet RentalFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $39.00 / month per yardUp to 25 active listings. Covers up to 33 states.One state to start at $39.00 / month, $20.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $156.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Lease OperatorFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $60.00 / month per officeNo cap on active listings.
Lender BiddingFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $39.00 / month per deskCovers up to 33 states. No cap on active listings.One state to start at $39.00 / month, $20.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $156.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Partner OrganizationFreeRead /memberships for what this one covers.
Real Estate AgentFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $16.00 / month per officeUp to 15 active listings. Covers up to 33 states. One operating location - buy a seat per yard or branch.One state to start at $16.00 / month, $8.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $64.00 / month. Picking more than 7 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Real Estate BrokerageFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $80.00 / month per officeCovers up to 33 states. No cap on active listings.One state to start at $80.00 / month, $40.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $320.00 / month. Picking more than 7 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Regional SellerFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $49.00 / month per locationUp to 50 active listings. Covers up to 33 states.One state to start at $49.00 / month, $25.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $196.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.
Shop SellerFreeFREE DURING LAUNCH - list price $19.00 / month per locationUp to 25 active listings. Covers up to 33 states.One state to start at $19.00 / month, $10.00 / month for each extra state, and every state AXE USA sells (33) for $76.00 / month. Picking more than 6 states costs no more than every state - the seat moves up on its own so nobody overpays by clicking one state at a time.

You can cancel any plan yourself from the memberships panel on /profile. Nothing on this site needs a phone call to stop.