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Originally Posted by fintstone
That is a great price today. When I was young, we (Dad and I) would have cut those down for you for free (by hand with a crosscut saw and/or axe and no bucket truck) if we got the wood for firewood. We would have cut the limbs by axe after it fell. We split wood into rails or firewood with a wedge and a hammer/maul. Sometimes made rough beams for small barn-building. That is a big job. Not too bad to cut trees out in the open (nothing to hit when it fell). Probably would have taken a week to get it done and hauled away.
I cut quite a few trees like that these days (most are a bit smaller trunk but much taller) on my properties...and a couple of years ago, some really big ones that fell on my house in a storm. That was a huge job as it was on a very steep hill, and I could get no equipment or truck in (had to carry wood/limbs out by hand for quite a distance). If I could have found someone reasonably, I would pay for the work and haul (as I do not burn wood and just end up hauling/dragging it into the woods to waste/rot). That job would have cost quite a bit more here too.
I had a pretty big tree in the yard of one of my rental homes (very close to the house) about 15 years ago. The best estimate was $1200. A fellow Pelican (that was doing a renovation on the home for me) did it for his hourly rate (total was $400). I imagine he used the wood since he had to haul it away.
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As a teen in the 60's my brother and I were nosing around in our G'pa's shed and noticed his 2 man crosscut saw used for felling large trees.
We took it out in the woods and tried to cut a tree down....tried. It was all work and exhausting to get halfway thru a med sized tree and we gave up.
My father said it was nothing to go out and cut trees all day long. How times have changed.