$5000, Seriously?
I've got a half dozen 100ft tall pines I really need to consider taking down in the next couple of years. Butt diameters around +/-36".
I'm located in lower New England where jooing your fellow man is considered a basic human right. 👎 I'm sure your pricing would be different.
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.
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.
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