Been doing some micro logging.
The privacy trees are/were anything but at this point. They drop their bows at such a rate now that anything under them is doomed.
I'm probably throughly terrifying the neighbors adjacent to me.
I dug out a few blocks to string up some haywire for yarding the logs onto the back yard landing. I'm guessing that some attractive lumber could be sawed from the first runs of these old growth Leeland Cypress trees. Lol..
If not, I can stare at a pile of logs, which is enjoyable.
Dealing with the brush had been a chore. The few estimates I got were all north of $3k. Both dudes could not compute "brush removal only" & repeatedly spoke about how THEY were going to cut the trees down. They wanted to climb one at a time and piece them down. The one guy insisted that I wouldn't know how to stage the brush for easy gathering. I mean how many ways can you cut a straight limb off of a straight stick? They fall off of the stem & lay on the deck just as they were growing on the stem. In 2 tiny little wind rows. I rented a chipper...
Arborists are still as strange as I remember them being.
Was planning on killing the entire row, but the idea of leaving a few by the road is growing on me. Just as long as the flora isn't falling into the cracks of my new insanely expensive rig. It seems to eat them up during the night as they're always jammed tightly into the cracks around the firewall. Unacceptable.
What should I replace them with? A tight growing evergreen that maxes out around 20-25' would be good. There seem to be plenty of them to choose from.
