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$30 grand is high, but even to a logger who rips nothing, that tree is likely worth over $2 grand to the sawmill and another $1 grand to a firewood dealer.
Yeah, but you will need to hire an arborist and crane to get it down, and that will cost you maybe $5,000?
No regular sawmill will want the log, too big, too ugly and probably full of metal.
Sorry but even asking money for the tree is straight out dreaming.
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Where I live a residential tree has zero value to a sawmill; they won't even look at a perfect specimen much less that thing. Dead at the bottom, all kinds of leads coming out of it means it's probably full of knots, what looks like a bird house and something else up high suggests there's metal in it. I mill my own lumber, but even to me that tree is worth nothing more than firewood and I never pay for that. My enthusiasm for milling anything I could get for free quickly disappeared when I hit nails and found logs rotten in the center or full of knots. I look at trees a lot more critically now before getting too excited. There are enough good ones that still come my way, for free, that I have plenty of nice clear lumber to work with.
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