Hi Phil, thank you for your response, that's given me a good bit of info to take back to him. I will try and talk to him about it again as originally it was just the one he wanted cut down because it's on a bit of a lean but the ones along the drive are supposedly the only ones that are straight enough for the timber to be any good and by the sounds of it he was told he could get the cost of having them removed back in the price of the timber. I will point out the fact that an old friend kindly removed and disposed of some previously as a favour to him by telling him they are pretty much worthless and not even good for burning which he has since learned is utter rubbish so perhaps he has been misinformed again. I am concerned by the effect of wind on the property if they are removed as it's already quite an issue though infrequently due to the direction. We do have a neighbour who puts his cows in with the ones in the paddock which resulted in an aborted calf. I have been trying to convince him of the necessity to plant more trees, we currently have a good 10 acres plus of just grass which our neighbour very kindly controls for us. I'm hoping to learn about regenerative agriculture and start putting the land to good use!
