Sounds like a good thing to do. I think you've hit most of the reasons for limbing them up.

Fire control is another reason not mentioned. Brush fires jump to the crowns quicker and there's nothing worse then trying to fight a wildfire in a poorly managed plantation I hear. But for our township pumper we would have had a plantation fire last summer.

I'm curious what species of pines they are. I know the red and white pines we have around here tend to limb themselves up when they start getting to be that height. However it also sounds like the growth rate there is about double of it here so your 35' trees are probably much younger then a 35' pine around here.

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