More trees coming down…

I have spent more time than I want to admit; placing the home and shop building on the property. We had to meet county setback requirements, avoid the septic tank & leach field, a desire to preserve large mature trees, asthetics/appearance, passive solar, etc. I finally had to admit; the very best location for home and shop buildings, meant having to remove a huge Black Oak and a very large Hickory tree. Both trees were within 5 feet of where the west wall of the shop would be. If we had tried to simply cut the tree roots in the way to enable trenching the footer and building the stem wall, there was a good chance the trees would have died in a few years. Hired a local tree service to remove about a dozen trees in all. There were also dead trees near the building site and out along highway 45.