re: Price to get a tree cut down (pics added to OP)

Ferguson's Tree Care...225-278-1774
Carl Ferguson
Greenwell,Springs., La.
I've used him a couple times. Good guy, does good work at reasonable prices.

That's what I was afaraid of.

This damn lease agreement I'm in is starting to get real expensive

The camp is directly to the right out of frame.

The more I look at it the more I'm tempted to do it myself. But if it falls on that old camp I'm pretty sure me and the wife would have to move out the country

Have one other one close by that suddenly died as well. I haven't seen any sign of lightning so I tend to agree it was beetles but something made it dead

Probably Ips beetles. Pine beetle sign looks like popcorn.

from looking at that pic, that tree wants to fall to the right. an experienced sawhand can move the fall some, but would probably need help from a skidder or the like. Dead pines are tricky, the longer they are dead the worse, older dead ones will sometimes break up during the fall with different pieces falling randomly.
What ever you decide, the sooner the better.
(yes I have worked as a logger)

Yea I need it to fall about 10-11 o'clock Or quartering away to the left into those woods if it was a deer.

No telling how much someone will charge me to come in and limb it then take the top out and work down. If they even do that on a dead tree

It's pretty tall. That limb that's broke off you can see in the pic is between 16 and 20'

I got a few trees cut down about two years ago, and it was $800/tree with stump removal.

Make sure the person you hire is licensed and insured.