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Tree removal...sweet fancy Moses!
4 trees (maybe 70' -100' each). Your cost:
$6,078  :Yea, that'll happen. I'll gnaw them b1tches into stumps with my teeth first. WTF?
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Sure glad I have an "axeman" for a friend...
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11-17-2008, 03:31 PM
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I've cut down two trees on my property (granted, the tallest was maybe 25').
All it cost me was an $80 chainsaw and four weekends. I'd let the stump sit over the winter and dig it out next spring.
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11-17-2008, 03:49 PM
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Len's problem may be that these trees need to be removed from the top down...
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11-17-2008, 03:54 PM
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My next door neighbor took down a 75' sycamore last summer. His lot is maybe 50' wide and my house is maybe 40' from the base. He rented a lift and cut it down from the top. Took him two 12-hour days.
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Amateurs don't mess with 80 foot trees. With trees that tall you start cutting at the top and work your way down. You need a bucket lift to do it. I just had two dead pines in the front yard cut down. The crew had a 75 foot bucket and used a 20 foot pole saw to start at the top of them. Had them cut down, hauled away and the stumps ground out all in about 4 hours. You couldn't even tell they had been there except for the bare spots. All for $1700.
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Last week I had 20 old fruit trees cut down at the ground and hauled away for $195. They were probably 15 feet tall each.
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11-17-2008, 04:01 PM
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Yea, these have to be topped...well two or three of them anyway. They are too close to the house and wires to just drop. But still.
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11-17-2008, 04:01 PM
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"danger" trees...those near wires & structures, are indeed $pendy to have removed. Did you call an arborist?
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11-17-2008, 04:06 PM
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11-17-2008, 04:22 PM
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I was faced with a bill like that about 10 yrs ago....Had some big Cedars come down in storms and wanted some away from the house.....In the end, I hired a logger to come in and he took 3 1/2 logging truck loads off my 1.5 acres. In the end, he paid me $5,000 and I still have plenty of trees left......
Shop around, run an an for someone looking for firewood......
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Last yr I had 12 trees removed in my yard. Oaks and silver maples, ranging from 30 ft to 100 ft (mostly in the upper range) $1750. included grinding 6 huge stumps. Just removed a huge silver maple out front. about 60 ft. Same guy charged me $475 with stump grinding.
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11-17-2008, 04:38 PM
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Those trees are producing life giving oxygen and reducing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere . . . and they might be sentient.
Even if they are sick, they need emergency care now, at all costs. |
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11-17-2008, 05:21 PM
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I am very happy with the rebuild though. I have a bit of a man-cave now and they gave me a new roof and re-stained the whole house. I really can't complain.
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11-17-2008, 07:29 PM
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That seems high.
Had a tall pine taken top down the old fashioned way with ropes between my garage and the fence 8' away. $350.00 and I cleaned up everything, they cut it down in little pieces and branches.
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