Here you could sell those trees for a nice profit to a local mill.
They are nice and straight for the first 50ft, and no nails or metalics ever driven into the wood.
I'd love to get them cut into 4 quarter rough cut boards and use them for sheathing, trim and mouldings on an addition. My only problem is my grizzly planer will only handle up to 15" width.
It seems fitting to use trees from the same land the house occupies.
The other thing is drying them. You can't use them for boards until they're dried or they'll just warp. You probably knew that.
Yeah, I have a 30x50 shop I could stack and stick them. Or stick them outside with a tarp.
There are portable mills that could cut them into nice cants as well. We had one at the mill I worked at for cutting oversized (Over 35") logs, they're pretty sweet. A guy came there years ago and cut up some huge logs that were just laying around. They were beautiful inside, and were used inside a log house restaurant. He made very good money.
I've got some monster hemlock at one of my other properties I'd turn into dimensional lumber. There is enough there for a few houses. The pine I'd leave as boards for a future addition - if I could get some 2ft wide boards out of it I'd use them vertically on the interior walls like was done in the living room fireplace wall of the original house.
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