My host landowner owns many hundreds of acres that I have free range on and he has about a hundred of it in Christmas trees. Around the first weekend of November I join him and his family and help to load about six-hundred trees to a truck on two flatbed tractor trailers. It's backbreaking work and it gets sap all over my hunting clothes but it is certainly worth it. He won't take money - he's refused it more than once but he's never turned me down when I put my work gloves on. They can always use some help with the "chores"
Dean
