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Originally Posted by peppy

A tree like that is worth a small fortune...

Originally Posted by stevej37

I know a guy that buys and removes special hardwood trees for furniture and veneer.
I asked him about removing it..mostly just to get it out of there.

He said that being by the road there was too much chance of nails and wire being in the core.....he didn't want it. But yeah...it's got a large trunk that is very straight.

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I've seen a bunch of stuff online with folks asking about having logs out of yards milled, and heard the same many, many times. Most mills won't touch a tree out of someone's yard because the chance of finding metal (bullets, wire, nails, etc...) embedded in the tree is high, and the profit from milling that log won't touch replacing their blade after it runs into something. I cut up a pecan that fell, and cut a dead branch off of a pin oak. I wish I'd realized/thought about using my chainsaw to cut them up and dry some planks/wood from them.