Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
You might have another possibility. If they are multi trunked beautiful specimens perhaps you could donate them to a local nursery. They often get jobs where these plants might be just what a client needs to put up a " living fence" or barrier on their property. It might be worth a landscaper or nurserymans time to come in with the appropriate equipment to dig them out and transplant them.
Rather then just cutting them down it might be worth a shot. Just don't expect any money in return or replacement plants. It will cost them time and effort to remove them.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.