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Originally Posted by jkjoshuatree
We are on Bear Island (hence the cost). But I will call around to as many places as possible. I saw Chippers online today.
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I am having trouble keeping this thread up on my screen; however, by punching "stop", I can reply using a post from the middle of the thread. Since I can't read the thread to its ending, I suppose nobody else would ever have previously posted this same opinion anyway, so I'll just go ahead and start.
As I have a half-dozen trees on my lot that are dead, I would suggest leaving the dead trees
standing—if you have the room.
Dead trees bring much to the lives of New Hampshire's birds and amphibians. (Housing and food come to mind.)
Fallen trees help to build up soil that would normally run into the lake, adding unneeded nutrients.
I have a birdfeeder that White-Breasted Nuthatches visit. They'll take sunflower seeds and carefully drive them into the dead tissue of the dead trees—one after another—
all day long, and for months.
Later, when their hatchlings fledge, they dig out those seeds. They feed the hatchlings, while showing the hatchlings how and where the seeds are stored for later.
Now, does it make sense to spend money for sunflower seeds, and then to cut down the tree that has my seed-money driven into it—that I put in the birdfeeder—at my own expense, for the personal enjoyment of my family and me? 
Dead trees tend to fall in pieces—from the uppermost branches first.
It might be
eight years before something substantial actually falls down to possibly damage anything.
At that point, it will be much shorter and easier to handle.
IMHO.