Wondering what you did with the trees. As you say. we use trees for everything. Every wood shop needs a stump, maybe 18" tall and 12" or so wide, the width is less important than the height so long as it sits stable. How do you use it? a lot of green wood woodworking is done with a hatchet with the workpiece held high on one end and hewing the end that and sits on the stump with a hatchet. Don't stand on it because the grit on your soles will hang up on the top and dull your hatchet. Best to watch some YouTube videos first. Of course you can always split firewood on it too.

After the pitch dries you can use stumps for outdoor seats, even tables. You can stake branches down across grades that tend to erode and let the soil build up behind them as a terrace to slow down the water flow, or as planting borders. If they rot back into the soil, great.

The trees were going to die someday, the closer their bodies stay to the place they grew the more the environmental cycle stays closed. Hope your house is beautiful;)