Cost of cutting trees?

[GWN7]

What does it cost to have trees removed?

Any idea what the pros charge and how?

By the height, width and or type of tree?

[LakeCleElum]

Paying $650 cash this week to remove a 150 Ft Cedar that was hit by lightning last year......Had estimates of over $1,500 to remove big maples......Depends on how close to a house, power lines, etc.......Get 3 estimates...License and bonding are good things when bad things happen.

[Bugsinrugs]

If you live in an area where they have to use a crane and take the tree down section by section it gets pricey. Cheaper if the area is large enough where the tree can just be dropped. I had a guy cut a large pine next to my house for $30 dollars. He was licensed and insured.

[cstreit]

A big tree? Anywhere between $500-$1000 depending on complexity.

[Craig T]

I just took out 5 "medium size" Kalifornia pepper trees (filthy bastards), three "large" sycamores (concrete lifting bastards), and trimmed down 25 avocado trees (my babies). It was the stump grinding that ran the bill up. I went with the lowest bidder. Trimming the Avos was $250 each. Removing the medium pepper trees was $500 each, but no need to grind the stumps. The large sycamores were $1,000 each...$750 plus $250 for the stump grinding. I let them dump the chips for avocado mulch or they would have charged $250 to dump it.

I thought it was a rip off until I saw how much work it was.

[JavaBrewer]

Stump grinding is the hidden cost.

Craig, good to trim the avo's - left unmaintained they can self destruct. Can't have that in Ventura!

[71scgc]

I've recently paid $1800 and 1500 to have a red oak and a pecan tree removed at my daughter's house in Tulsa, OK. Both had sustained heavy storm damage.
The price was all-in. Job was done by a long time friend with a tree company. He's high, but has good equipment, and gets with it on the job. Knows what he's doing, and he owns a 930 factory slant nose.
One of the coolest old friends I have!!

Carter

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Craig, good to trim the avo's - left unmaintained they can self destruct. Can't have that in Ventura!

You're right. They like to be whacked down to a stump every six or seven years. 18 months later they are 10' tall and thriving. They're like Monty Python's Black knight..."Come back and fight! It's only a flesh wound!"

[john70t]

Sixty yo Siberian Elms are the bane of this area.
All installed at the same time(like the Orangeburg pipe).
Low split in the trunk, soft wood, bark sheds, spindly.
Plus they shed year round.

I got rid of two next to the foundation, then paid an elderly neighbor $1,100 to get rid of one guaranteed to take out both my garage and all the power lines for the entire block. Shoveled her walks for five years, took her pies, sat and talked for hours, and helped her with some other major problems. She went into a home. Her son got some other critical limbs removed, but wouldn't even give me the time of day when I offered to help get rid of the remaining ones on the property line.
Oh well. Sometimes you can't change inconsiderate people.

[peppy]

I had a dead maple cut down for $200 a few weeks ago. I have to clean up the limbs and I left the stump, but he did need a bucket truck to get it.

[HardDrive]

Geez, I asked my neighbor about this, and holy hell did he go on and on about what a bad idea it was. What kind of name is Lorax anyway?

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Craig T

You're right. They like to be whacked down to a stump every six or seven years. 18 months later they are 10' tall and thriving. They're like Monty Python's Black knight..."Come back and fight! It's only a flesh wound!"

I super glad to hear this! Our old avo tree had got so heavy/knarly I took a chainsaw to it... it is now sprouting new branches all over the place!

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

I super glad to hear this! Our old avo tree had got so heavy/knarly I took a chainsaw to it... it is now sprouting new branches all over the place!

Like I said, avocado trees say..."Come back and fight! It's only a flesh wound".

Avocado trees are amazingly resilient. I had a bunch of Fuerte variety trees. They have little commercial value anymore. My grounds keeper cut them down to 12" stumps, sliced the top with a machete, and stuck two Hass variety branches in each. Three years later I have beautiful bushy trees loaded with HAAS avocados. "Grafting"