A little easier work

[T Man]

My parents had a tree service company do some work on their property and was able to get them to leave the larger portions (3" & up). Ash, a little chestnut and some pine for the shoulder season. I started working on the ash this afternoon. This is much easier work for me as I'm usually waste high in weeds/briars cutting storm blow downs at our place and carrying rounds out to the field where I can pick them up. Not sure if the larger section of the ash is worth trying to sell for lumber or just cut it up for the stove.

 

[Chimney Smoke]

Unless you have a mill yourself it'll probably be difficult to sell the logs for lumber. The mills don't like residential trees because they usually contain nails and other stuff that damaged their blades.

 

[Soundchasm]

I had a nice section of cherry this year, mildly looked into selling it because it was a single log. Gave up the idea. Found a big punky section near the bottom, plus a 6" eyelet bolt completely buried inside the tree. However, I got immense satisfaction from bucking it into perfect 16" sections and it split and stacked like a dream.