I could buy that wood chipper from Lowe's for $750 and add a day to the project chipping the branches and then I would have a wood chipper for the business should I need it in the future. Or I can just write the check and be done with it and take the firewood home when they are out of there. What would you do? --174.201.xx.xx

I wouldn't want to spend a day doing that kind of work - especially for free. --98.245.xx.xx

Another option is a bonfire. --174.201.xx.xx

Write a check.....but keep looking. I have recently met a man who cuts up firewood from downed trees and he donates the firewood to veterans in need. --72.172.xxx.xx

In my youth I would have bought the equipment. In my old age i would write the check. I can say I have a garage full of expensive equipment that I have stored for years and not used. --108.51.xxx.xxx

Sisco, I'm keeping the firewood for my house. --174.201.xx.xx

I've rented a chipper before and done that work. Long hours, nasty, sticky, tiring. Well worth paying someone else to do it. --131.151.xx.xx

Not to mention dangerous to chip up the big stuff with a big chipper. Like Laura said, when I was younger and didn't have the money and did have the energy, I would do it myself. Now it is the opposite. I am happy to write the check. You will have enough work to do with the firewood. --108.44.xx.xxx

I don't like to buy equipment,it is just one more thing I need to maintain and keep under cover somewhere and it might not even start next time you need it.I would have my tree guy chip up the brush and get rid of it,my guy will save me money if I have a spot he can blow the chips on the property so he doesn't have to pay to get rid of them or spend the time driving them somewhere to dump.Also if I had that much wood I would have my guy load it on his truck and he brings it to my parents pasture where I process and season my firewood,lot easier than cutting it at a rental or a flip where I am under pressure to get it removed quickly,in my parents field I can do it when I get to it and enjoy it.Everyone thinks I am nuts but I love cutting and burning firewood,it is a hobby for me. --72.231.xxx.xxx

I like cutting and burning firewood too. I also like doing the work with branches. I'm just not sure if it's worth it in this case. --174.201.xx.xx

Hardwood eh. Not easy. Chipper could break. I would let them do it for the $2500 which is cheap. I have paid that for one oak tree. Are they all really dangerous or just having trees is frightening now due to weather issues. --73.178.xxx.xx

NE, how about a barter: someone cuts it up for you for free and they can keep half? --173.19.x.xxx

I will send you a check for $700 for him to haul away... should you decide to do it yourself about the second day you will know it was cheap! Let him haul away! --99.203.xx.xxx

Use a big trailer. There's a place here, where I could dump a full load of brush, logs, etc. for about $15. --173.24.xxx.xxx

If a "yard waste recycling" facility were available, I would do it. Ours charges $4 per pickup load. --157.245.xx.xx

I had one tree removed 2 years ago. I got couple quotes, the cheapest is $1500.. Hope this makes you feel better.. Just write the check. --71.232.xxx.xxx

Why can’t he chip anything 3 inches or less in diameter and leave the rest for you? That’s the agreement I’d want. Leave all the big stuff - you cut that up and use for firewood. I would expect this agreement to be more than $1800 but less than $2500. Either way, those prices for 8 large trees sounds like a steal. Around here one large tree would be $800+. --24.147.xx.xxx

$2500 for ALL eight trees? That's great price! Let them do the chipping. You'll have plenty to do with cutting and splitting the firewood. --68.10.xxx.x

I have bought the chipper and played with it for awhile, pine or blond wood jams up everything cause the resin gets hot and sticks to the sides - I took it apart and sharpened the blades about 12 times (takes nearly a day), after owning this about 6 years I had to get another one - just started to leak a lot of oil and those blades were nearly shot but I got a lot of mulch out to the wheelbarrow so I wanted to stay with tradition, when this one gets tired I will pay someone, I loaned mine out but should have rented it out to defray the sharpen time. --76.188.xxx.xx

What kind of trees? I heat with wood and the BTU factor of firewood varies with the species and it certainly should be seasoned for a good year before burning. I would pay to have all of a cottonwood tree hauled away, but I would leap on a good hardwood. --216.23.xxx.xx

Oak, ash, and cherry --174.201.xx.xxx

Once you start to collect stuff, it never ends. If I were you I'd pay someone else to cut, prune and remove all of the branches and leaves. All you have to do is cut a check. It can't get any easier than that!!!!! --47.156.xx.xx

Mighty fine firewood. Let them do the work. --216.23.xxx.xx

Consider using a chainsaw to cut larger branches into smaller pieces. A good fire needs kindling. --216.23.xxx.xx

Hey NE - I do have equipment you can have for free. You have to arrange to get it. The equipment to install hardwood floors & oil-free twin stage air compressor , both are taking up lots of room in my garage & I don't see me using them again. --108.51.xxx.xxx

If you exercise any of the other options you mentioned...this job will never conclude! --99.59.x.xxx

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PS, no morons were actually killed in the making of that video, but some came close! LOL --47.216.xx.xxx

Them hauling off the branches and leaving you the firewood sounds like a good option to me. --174.216.xx.xx

Some of the big organizations will take some of it for their big group feeds or fundraiser. Elks club, or some group similar, took a bunch of oak from me for running a pit barbecue at the county fair. Not my good split firewood, but a whole lot of twisted branches that were too much work to cut into the size for the woodstove. --174.216.xx.xx

$2500 sounds like a real bargain compated to prices here. --70.31.xx.xxx

2) make sure they do stump grinding too - around here it is $25 a stump --24.34.xx.xxx

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You could either just drag the brush into the woods or have a chipper set up and blow the chips into the woods so the guy doesn't have to spend time driving them anywhere or paying to dump them somewhere --72.231.xxx.xxx

One more thing: if you do use a chipper, BE VERY CAREFUL! Several years ago, right near here, a teenage boy was working for his family's tree business putting branches through a chipper. When he lost his balance & fell in, he was instantly ground up. NO joke - these things are VERY powerful and dangerous, so BE CAREFUL! --68.10.xxx.x

I write the check. If you are working by yourself I think chopping the branches from 8 trees is going to take more than 1 day. Now your rental is $350 + $50 for gas for your truck and the chipper only leaves $300 for you for 2 days of back-breaking work. --166.137.xxx.xxx

Wood chippers remind me of the movie "Fargo". --216.23.xxx.xx

I've decided the $2,500 option. --50.32.xxx.xxx

The company that gets first right of quoting is the one that got us out of a jam that would have made that video... --99.203.xx.xx