Locutus wrote:
I've purchased some acreage to build a house on, and where the house is
going to be built it is mostly woods. The trees are mostly maple, birch and
oak. Probably 30-40 trees will need to come down, most of them are 1-2'
wide, a few larger.

Do these trees have any value? I'm not interested in "making money" off of
these tree per se, but anything to help offset the cost to have them removed
would obviously be helpful to me. Anyone have any idea how much I can
expect to pay to have these trees removed? Should I have the stumps dozed
out or ground down?


There is a portable mill called a Woodmiser. They used to maintain a
list of their customers who were looking for situations such as yours.
Some would take the trees for the wood, some might pay for them
depending on species or quality, some would mill if for you
for a price, some would split the wood for you, it all depends on
the individual and the specific situation.

Haven't heard about them lately, but you can probably find plenty
of information in the Google archives of this newsgroup
(rec.woodworking)
or via web search.

They are not the only people sellign portable mills either.

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FF