I forget what my buddy I went to high school with told me how much just the insurance was for his tree company cost. But it was outrageous. That and vehicle registration, and commercial vehicle insurance Comp. If they just dropped those trees and left them where they lay. You got a deal.
Forestry and tree service is big up here. There are log trucks running up and down my road today. Jake brakes and all.
There 'were' 15 maples lined along the road in front of my property that my dad and me tapped in the still snowy early spring and made maple syrup. That was the mid 70's. They are getting old. Well over 100 years old. They were big from aerial photos from the late 40's. 2 were cut down and hauled off some years ago and last summer lightning blew another one over.
It cost $375 to have a crew come and cut it up and haul it. I would have cut it for fire wood but lightning and firewood don't exactly make anything but a smoldering wood stove of stink.
The standing trees, when I asked what it would cost to get a few that are really showing their age cut and hauled away were quoted at around $3500-5000 apiece. I had to change my jeans!
Tommy passed on a few months ago. That dude and his crew could choreograph felling trees in tight places like a boss. And he climbed them like a scared cat. A plus for him was good trees got hauled to the sawmill and he had a firewood processor and a few guys to run it.
