for serious sure but not too soon i have a yard to remodle due to the snow we had i lost a lot of trees so far i counted 50 the biggest was about 100 ft it was a california grey pine snapped in half the rest were huge oaks i am hiring most of it out though the grey pine my kids want to carve into a canoe so we will try that and see how far we get i will give them primative scrapers hahahaha