Funny enough my dad got a few of his trees removed too. They were basically dead and just harboring bad insects really but also in the way of a fence which is needed to get a dog.

Eventually the people he settled on did fairly well and accidentally under charged us because they sized the trees weirdly but it was done so said lucky us.

They were NOT the "local" tree removers lol. Whoever the locals were did indeed want nearly double from what I remember him mentioning