I have an old oak tree, about 18 inches in diameter, fallen across my driveway. The larger end wedged between two large trees on one side of the driveway, about 12 feet above ground. The smaller end was resting on two of its large branches (about 10 inches) sort of a saw horse position on the other side of the driveway. The whole thing is very stable, and looks like a large gate to the elf Mirkwood. There is plenty of room underneath for my car to pass through. It is interesting to look at, and I would love to leave it the way it is, but afraid one day it would rot enough and fall on me while I was driving through it.
What would be a reasonable cost of cutting the thing down, chop, split, haul up to my house and stack them ? I plan to have a local handy man who also remove trees to do the job, but not sure if he over charged me last time we did business. I wanted to be more informed this time.
By the way, the fallen tree is about 200 meters down hill from the house, and pretty much in the wild and there is no construction near by that the tree could damage.
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