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We have a guy around here with a mobile sawmill. If you think you may ever want to build something on your own and want you own wood - this may be an option. It would be neat to say that this item or that item came from the wood removed from the site. We used ours to heat the house for several seasons. I removed all of the trees prior to pond build, but we only did a small pond in very rocky soil. Our excavator had no problem pulling stumps. He used a track loader, which isn't ideal for ponds but it was a unique site. I am unsure how a dozer would have fared.
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