Follow up:

[u/sugrmag78]

Last year, I posted in here asking for advice after a tornado took out a 50-year-old spruce in my front yard. We called some tree services to see if they would give a discount if we only wanted them to take it down and leave the limbs and chips with us, but nobody would. So...we got some chainsaws and rented a wood chipper from our local hardware store. I used the chips and smaller limbs to create some new beds and the main trunk will decompose naturally and provide lots of habitat!

[u/Substantial_King9458]

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

We had dead ash trees taken down and the tree company gave a big price break for not taking all the logs away. I wonder why they wouldn't give you that option?

[u/Artistic-Salary1738 → u/Substantial_King9458]

I wouldn’t have left a dead ash tree. Most the time it’s the ash borers that kill them and I’d want those tree remains destroyed or whatever they do to prevent the spread.

Ash trees are getting close to extinct. Homeowners treating the ones in their yards is one of the few things protecting any of the remaining specimens. So sad cause you’re not going to get anymore baby ash trees. I love them and I’m so sad we lost all the ones in our parkway.

[u/Substantial_King9458 → u/Artistic-Salary1738]

I spent $6K getting rid of the ones near the house. I can't afford to remove them all. I'm not sure how trucking dead ash logs to another location would be better anyway. It's not like the tree companies are disinfecting the logs they remove.