Thread: The cost of getting old and living in the woods

Maybe they'll take trees down, and maybe they will send YOU the bill.

Depends on where you are.

Here, County and State roads are good, especially if there are utility Right-of-way. Somebody gets it. Occasionally on county roads trees lay there waiting for the first firewood harvester.

Township roads are a different story, and every township is different. My township road supervisor is a good egg...he takes the easy ones down himself, free, or calls a firewood cadger, unless he's written the landowner a notice and they've ignored it too long.

Then they pay.

Originally Posted by johncinco

Gonna fall on the road, or the phone/power lines....

I woulda called the county road commission, or the power company first. You just spent $500 on something they do for free.

I have 3 terrible leaners ready to come down along my road/property. I called and they are marked with blue paint for removal, when the crews get a chance they will drop them.

Had it been electric lines the power company would have taken it down. I have had them take down two (2) for me. The phone line was a dead end line that only served two houses. I wasn't all that worried about it, and neither was the phone company. The local road department would not have touched it. I know that because I tried to get them take down an even bigger dead leaner last year. They asked if it was on the right of way and when I told them no, but it was going to fall across the road, they allowed it was my problem. Later, it did fall across the road.

My problem was more my neighbor's tree and fence, and it was aimed right at his front gate. That tree wasn't going to wait, and it was dangerous.

I'm sorry I had to do it, but I'm not sorry I did it. Had it been ten years ago, and had I felt better than I did at the time, I might have taken it down myself. At any rate that bus has left the station.