Pine tree removal

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Bartt

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Anyone have a ballpark figure to remove a 60 foot pine tree about 18 inches in dia. located near a garage. Will use a bucket type crane for garage safety. Tree guy wants $400.00 for the job. I"m 66 years old and I cut 50 trees down in the last couple years, but this one is too close to garage. Any input is appreciated. Thanks. Dick in Vermont.

 

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Patsdeere

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• Mar 22, 2010

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In CA. it would be double to triple that.

 

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ChrisLSD

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• Mar 22, 2010

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ballpark $400 - does he haul off the branches or just leave them lay - remove the stump?

 

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chevytaHOE5674

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• Mar 22, 2010

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I would climb it, limb it out, and then chunk it down to the ground for 400. I wouldn't touch the brush or wood for that price though.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Just paid $540 to have two thirty foot Locust trees cut down and the stumps ground. They chipped up the limbs and debris and hauled it away near AnnArbor in Michigan.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Hard to mobilize a bucket truck, a guy and a chainsaw for much less than that- sounds good to me.

 

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TractormanNC

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• Mar 22, 2010

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I didn't know you could cut down a tree in CA. LOL.

 

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Patsdeere

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Normally it is. However, the pine beetle is destroying lots of pine trees. It isn't too hard to get permission to take a pine down. It is so agressive it can take a tree from green to brown in a week.

Any other tree is a whole nother story.

 

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tjdub

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• Mar 22, 2010

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> Tree guy wants $400.00 for the job.

Make sure he has insurance. If he does, then it's a good deal for piece of mind. I cut down a lot of trees and like to think I have some skill at it, but I have no problem with hiring a professional to take care of anything near a building or power lines.

 

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HughB

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Around here they would get at least $800. Get it in writting.

 

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CLTX

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Around here, $400 sounds about right if it includes disposal of the tree and stump grinding.

 

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Ray

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Pine trees are the easiest to remove,they don't have big roots like a regular tree.I took down 50 last summer around my house.I dug down about 3 ft deep on both sides of the tree with a backhoe,then just pushed the tree over.You can cut it down and then grind the stump down below ground level also.It depends on how much room you have,mine had plenty of room to fall.

 

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1936

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Crane truck, bucket truck, 2 chip trucks, 1 chipper, stump cutter, trailer with pick up to haul stump cutter and 6 or so crew and insurance.
22 bucks an inch is not really wrong.

May want to see if the power lead in shoud be dropped before the job start not during the removal. Saw the results of a small log dropped on the power lead in. The hot wire left wholes in the walk each time it hit and burnt wholes in the wood fance, melted the glass on the meter, burnt the vinel siding off a good part of the house along with the phone and cable.
Also the big red trucks showed up.

 

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BCnT

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• Mar 22, 2010

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last pines i took down near buildings/houses were $600. each and i had owner sign a release of liability...caca occurs no matter how good you are at felling.
that price included hauling off anything the lawnmower wouldnt chew up.

 

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big fred

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Around here, in Western Washington, $400 would probably be a pretty good price if you hired a tree service. If you hired a out-of-work logger you could probably get by cheaper, but he wouldn't be licensed or insured.

 

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AndrewFromNS

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• Mar 22, 2010

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If you hired a out-of-work logger you could probably get by cheaper, but he wouldn't be licensed or insured.

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Not licensed or insured, but if its anything like around here, he'd be a heck of a lot better than the goofballs NovaScotia Power contracts to cut trees. Calling them professional would be akin to calling a letter-series Farmall a marvel of modern engineering.

 

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chevytaHOE5674

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• Mar 22, 2010

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Most loggers are great at putting a notch in a tree and dropping it. In the woods you don't climb and piece trees down etc. I used to do residential tree trimming and removal (still do for friends and family), now am a logger and the only thing the two jobs have in common is a chainsaw.

 

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36 Coupe

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• Mar 24, 2010

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Does it have some good logs in it.If so keep the logs and sell them.An 18 inch 16 foot log would saw out 230 board feet on a rotary mill.

 

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Bartt

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• Mar 24, 2010

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Thank you all so much for the great input.This pine is going down for $400.00. The man who does it is fully insured. Then I can haul the logs around with my Super M. I"ll dry it well and split for kindling wood. ought to last at least 20 years. Thanks again. Dick in Vermont.