if a tree falls in the ditch...

I always loved the look of property's in the south with tree rows well planted many years ago either field side, down roads or driveways.
we had 110 acres logged this summer.. but logging has come a long way I can look at the hill from a distance and all you see are tree's. landowners, forestry, and loggers work together for the good of the land and bottom line to try and do what's best for people and environment.
It's a constant battle when you live "in the woods" if you don't cut or have someone cut the woods will retake whatever land is open and it doesn't take too long.
I personally have been cutting tree's since 9 or 10.. me and my buddies would axe a few down to build forts.. never forget that 50 ft birch tree we hacked down. Started bucking logs and limb work with a chainsaw around 13 and cutting down tree's at 17. You start small and learn the basics then work your way up to larger and larger tree's. It's dangerous work for sure and the prices you have put up are on par even here and what I charge.. mostly insurance cost is what drives price.
On the other hand I have planted hundreds if not over a thousand tree's that will be here long after my death as proper placement is not common these day's with "landscapers" who plant them so close together or close to houses with no thought of 40,50, 100 years into it's growth. We have also saved countless tree's from untimely death from the crowns getting buried during lot development and also damage from the same.
I respect old tree's they have their place and I let them be.
we recently had a new septic system put in and I had to take down my only shade tree that reached the back of the house. It was not something I wanted to do... but my hands were tied.
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71 ft white pine, but it will live on as a 3 sections are going down to a good friend who built a sawmill out of scrap and was willing to trade labor to slab it up into siding that will be put on my sugar shack.
I will miss the shade but it will give me protection from the wind rain and snow come early march..