I cut way more of it than I like but we do not have any live ash here , sure you may find a odd bush that its still good but not much . Some of the jobs latterly have about 50% of the ash on the ground so yes its bad but as long as its not purple stain inside the mill takes it . Price wise lots are at 50% of total value of the bush of ash so you need to produce but can make what I feel is good money cutting . Everything here is priced by the diameter of the logs so stuff up to 16 inch is a set price, 20 inch is another and everything over 24 inch is top price which is $750/1000 doyle. So a average of $550 to $650 /1000 is common for mill run logs . Another thing , its not the tree you are falling you need to really worry about, its the trees the tree your falling hits that you need to worry about so as soon as your tree moves get your hairy little butt moving and moving fast , cutting big bur oak here is worse in lots of cases as its got a bug to and are a lot bigger so you need to move farther from the stump