It depends on your local loggers. In many places there are small operators with a chainsaw and self loading truck. I’ve sold small 1 and 2 load sales to those types of operators in the past. Check with local state forestry people to see if they can make a referral to a suitable operator. I’ve sold 2000 board foot sales and 200 million board foot sales. The big sales are sold to sawmills and the small sales to gypo loggers who will sell their single load as gate wood at the sawmill.
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I wouldn't imagine that any loggers are going to clean up/haul away any of the slash, certainly not someone who's doing it for free or low cost in exchange for the wood.
Sure would be cheaper to do slash cleanup than paying a tree service $400 per tree. But that’s me. Timber is what I do and how I think. I hate seeing good sawlogs bucked up for firewood. For nice straight sawlog stumpage, they should do slash cleanup too. It looks like there’s one truck load. It would be better to have a forester handle negations. Loggers tend to take advantage of homeowners.
With meticulous notching on days with little or no wind or a breeze coming from the road to your property, the trees should fall away from the road. You could add extra assurance by rigging a guy or "preventer" (5/8" or greater line, doubled, and rigged from as high as you can comfortably place it on the tree to a 2-1 or 3-2-1 picket with tension). The idea is not to pull the tree down but to prevent it from falling toward the road.I'm 73 so time isn't on my side. I can cut trees myself but close to road is dangerous (falling on a car!).
Yep, I would not recommend Leyland Cypress. There are at least two blights that attack them, and there is no cure for them. I planted over a dozen more than a decade ago. Only have five left, and two of them are dying. I am in central Virginia.
