I'm going off memory here but I believe we marked around 70 trees. There were a few decent 20" trees but very little veneer quality was marked . the problem is there was a lot of 14 to 16" stuff that just had no value. The timber buyers didn't really try to talk me into letting my better stuff go, they just didn't agree with taking the smaller stuff . The last one I met with even told me to leave the good veneer till it hit 24 inches or more , told me that was where the money is. He suggested leaving things alone for 5 years.
One thing the loggers said to me was that they did not measure the trees the same as the forester. What the forester would call a 22, the loggers called a 20 at best. They claimed the foresters don't account for the bark.
In the end, I just decided to leave it all be for 5 years or so and reevaluate at that time.