I'm gonna start a tree service. I get enough calls to stay busy.

[Daren]

  As was stated in another reply, most folks who go buy lumber at the store, look at the same species of tree growing in their yard and think, WOW, our tree must be worth a fortune, not realizing how many steps it takes for 'their'tree to be processed into KD lumber.  I believe that as an arborist, one of our tasks is to gently educate a public that, for me, seems to lack a 'common sense.'

What like this  http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/pb/wp_9ed660e8/wp_9ed660e8.html?0.9350430951345259

[WAGZ]

I have been an arborist since 1976.  The freebee calls are just part of the 'service' I give to folks.  It is a bit annoying at times when 'Mr or Mrs. Smith' call with a request to come and buy 'our special tree'.  Granted, over the years, I have paid some $ to the owners for their tree.  Usually though, by the time I finish raking up the yard, the paltrey sum I give them in return is but a small fraction of what they have paid me for my services(It is the giving backto them that many times justifies what they knew about the value of that tree).  As was stated in another reply, most folks who go buy lumber at the store, look at the same species of tree growing in their yard and think, WOW, our tree must be worth a fortune, not realizing how many steps it takes for 'their'tree to be processed into KD lumber.  I believe that as an arborist, one of our tasks is to gently educate a public that, for me, seems to lack a 'common sense.'

Common sense is not that common!!!........