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Tinmouth board weighs contractor options, cites past $35,000 job to remove 120 trees
Summary
Board members discussed methods for removing dead and dying ash — from hand-felling to excavator-assisted pushing — and referenced a past job that cost about $35,000 to remove roughly 120 trees as context for potential town costs.
Members debated efficiency and cleanup trade-offs among methods such as hand-felling, chipping, renting excavators and hiring crews. Eric Goffman and other members cautioned that renting an excavator or bringing in a large crew brings both cost and cleanup logistics; one member cited a prior removal where "That was $35,000" to remove about 120 trees.
The board discussed renting local equipment, calling local contractors and asking Dan for an estimate of machine and operator hours. Members also discussed salvage value constraints and transport restrictions for ash lumber; several loggers consulted by the board said it may be too late to salvage valuable logs in many cases.
