posted 4 years ago
I would cut 'em down. The other posters are right; a grown tree will be very sickly trying to regrow its feeder roots if you try to move it someplace else. If you heated with wood, that would be a solution. If you feel badly taking out biomass, make the root holes your new composting sites. Amazing everything thrown away which properly belongs to the soil. The trees themselves you could keep (if you have the room) and make spoons, make soil, make mulch, whatever you want!
"Things that will destroy man: Politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice." -- Mohandas Gandhi