Trees and shrubs to go

This should be quite a challenge. There are some 110-15 ft high trees on the lot, up to 30" in diameter. Normally if you removed a single tree, a logger would climb the tree and take it down in 5-10 sections. However, with so many large trees they'd like to push them over on the lot, then cut them into marketable lengths (32' of 40') for resale. There are 3 large trees in the center of the lot, so for these they'll have to be cut in half, dropped and then recut. Sounds like a scarry proposition to me, but you have to assume that these guys know what there doing (not like our present crop of politicans).

The timber resale market is in the toilet now. Two foresters that visited the property estimate that the logs might fetch $1500-2000 at the mills (50-60 miles away), but loading and truck transport will eat up about half of that amount. So we'll be lucky to clear $1000 from the lumber after its all done and over with. 3 years ago, the market was twice as good as now. I learned a bit about lumber in this process. The best trees are straight doug firs in 50-60 lengths that are 16-10' in diameter: intended as power poles. These can go for upwards of $1500 each. We don't have any. Second best trees are peelers. These are large diameter trees with few branches, preferably in 20-32 ft long sections. They'll be debarked and turned, and then peeled as veneer for plywood. We don't have any. Third best trees are for standard 2x lumber, quality dependent on knots and other imperfections. We have lots of these. Call them mega-toothpicks. Probably $100 each for a big one. The least valuable trees are the smaller diameter and crooked ones. They'll be pulp wood for anything from OSB to cardboard or firewood. They're worth less than the cost to move, but they have to go somewhere and the landfill charges more. There you go—Lumber 101. Go into plastics, as they said.