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No kidding.
My neighbor cut down four trees (three dying 15 footers and one healthy 30 footer) on his property back in 2019. He didn’t get authorization from the HOA, and didn’t grind down the stumps, which was a whole other can of worms.
He was kind enough to let me keep the trunks and branches for firewood, while the tree cutting company hauled away the canopy.
This is four trees stacked neatly by the side of the house. I’m still using it for firewood, and expect to finally use it up this winter.
One mature tree would probably equal this pile, 32 would be… a mess. A few barns worth of lumber. A scale model of the Tunguska event.
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At least Mr. T chopped down his own trees.
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In my neighborhood any tree over 6" in diameter needs a permit in order to be removed. We lost a lot of trees to Ash borer, some were huge and cost 4k+ to cut down and remove. On the other hand a crew came through and with a spit and a handshake I had a bunch of trees cut down and removed for 10k cash. The crew leader cut the first tree down in flip flops. They were messy but pretty skilled at the actual tree work. Bank asked me what I wanted the money for. I very much doubt they had insurance/were bonded.
A neighbor contracted a legit company and they used ropes and a crane due to the slope and location of a tree and “dropped” it on the house. The tree company admitted fault but it took ages for the insurance to pay as they disagreed with the three repair estimates.
Final anecdote was someone in the community cut down 10 big oak trees on their own property. They fine was sadly was about 1k a tree. He told the borough council to f off and walked out.
Anyway a big hidden cost of home ownership can be trees.
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I wonder if the landowner can get him for lost revenue as well. Depending on the tree, a mature hardwood can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars when sustainably harvested.
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May it be so.
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I hope the perpetrator loses their home and lots and lots of money.
If something like this happened on my land, I would be devastated. Truly heartbroken. It’s not even about the monetary value, it hits me like an act of extreme violence. Fuck that asshole. 
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From what I’ve seen, if they are licensed arborists, then not only will they make sure it’s your property, they’ll make sure that removing the trees is legal. However, non-arborists can cut down trees. It’s likely the non-arborist(s) who felled the trees are among the “three parties” who the arborist wrote violations on.
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nobody does, unless maybe they have an account
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The question I have is if it is inaccessible to re-plant trees, how did they get in there in the first place to take them down? Loggers could use helicopters or some really heavy machinery, but I don’t hear that mentioned. Building a road and all that to re-plant adds to A-holes pain (Yay!), but how’d they do it to begin with?
Chopping down a tree and hauling it out in pieces (leaving the roots behind) requires less equipment than to plant an intact fully grown tree (roots and all)
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It depends what they did. If all he did was hire a cut crew, those guys work on foot. They can hike in and hike out anywhere. They lay the wood down, then the logging crew comes in to clear.
If they did actually log it, the most common option in a scenario like that is a skyline. It’s a way to haul logs out of dense bush without needing a road. You need a road for the yard tower to get somewhat close, but that’s all.
If it’s not too dense, another option is skidding them out. Skidders are pretty unstoppable and they can get in and out if there isn’t too much deadfall.
Helicopter logging does exist, but it’s high risk and exorbitantly expensive, so it’s only done when the wood is crazy valuable. Like old growth red cedar, something like that.
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