What are you doing posting during the day ? 

Pittance is the right word.
Unless you have several tonnes its not worth the fuel of the drive to the mill.....

A decent sized tree can produce 200 kilos (6 sacks) of carob at 25c per kilo. Your 11 trees could bring you €500. Obviously nothing to our wealthier members but I find it helps...

Planespete - do you know if the Campredo mill accepts Carobs or which is the nearest mill to Campredo that will.

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For what it's worth James, I agree with your sentiments, however, Nobrot's suggestion of pruning them by about a third sounds like a reasonable compromise ?

"but if you aren't doing anything else with your time at the moment....."

I wish.  I'm flat out every day (but not ALL day owing to old man's energy limitations 
I'm typing this during a break from trying to cultivate new growing areas with a pick axe. 
It doesn't apply to me.  I only have one Carob which hasn't had any pods for the last few years.  I have pruned it and used the wood for logs but the side branches at ground level had spread to a width of about 15 meters.  I'm leaving the upright trunks and higher branches.  Not a bad burning wood though.