price on removal of tree

[HoffmanLawnCare]

wondering what price range any of you would charge to take down this tree and remove all the wood from the property, any help would be great. thanks!

[Coreyb]

i would charge 800. but i have a dump site. if you have to pay to dump or need a chipper, charge more. also charge more for the stump grinding. you should be able to drop it and cut.

[Rickco]

How are you going to take them down? bucket,are you a climber,notch and flop (bad idea)?
Secondly what about the brush? Chipper or do you need to haul it away and dispose of it? If so how?
I'm a climber and just off the cuff for take down chipping and removal of wood I'd say about $450. I'ts really hard to judge without actualy seeing them.

[lawnmaniac883]

Prolly 1000 for it from what i can see in the pic. How many inches is the trunk of that thing?

[HoffmanLawnCare]

i'm going to be dropping it, chopping up into pieces and hauling away to a dump site. the trunk is about 2 feet wide and the stump grinding i'm going contract out.

[SodKing]

Looks Photoshopped...Just delete it ;)

[topsites]

I likely wouldn't fool with it because my Insurance does not cover me for tree work, that's like a 6- 8 thousand pound tree or more.

It probably wouldn't fall on that house but I'd still be for branching it down just because when that thing falls in one piece, every single thing under the trunk will be under a lot of pressure and also it is more likely to tear up the turf. With a small saw like the 210, it wouldn't be a problem climbing that thing without gear, the branches are so close together that if you fall it would hurt and take some skin off, but most likely it would not kill you. It's the big of it all that concerns me, the main trunk...

Debris-wise, unchipped you're looking at 20-30 cubic yards minimum, so at least four 6x12 trailer loads.
Chipped, at least one but maybe two F-350 dump loads.

Price-wise, it's all the same whether you haul it away chipped or not, basically.

You want it bad enough, I'd quote at least 800 but a grand wouldn't bother me.
That way, since I don't have a chipper, I'd plan on loading a trailer in the am and another in the pm, two loads / day, two days gets four loads done and hopefully that takes care of it... But if it doesn't and it takes 3 days and 6 loads, then a k still covers it halfway.
If you're not so lucky and it takes eight 6x12 loads, well then it's 250 / day... I'd still work for that but it's not much fun anymore.

I still don't think I'd fool with it myself, just looks risky, dunno, maybe...

[KINGjosh]

Don't touch it for less than $1,500- $1,800, if they really want it to come down, they'll pay it.
Its kinda hard to tell the actual size of that tree, in the first pic it looks huge as hell, but in the second pic it looks smaller

*This estimate is off the first pic
I'd tell the customer just like this, " Your looking at least $1,500-$1,800, I have to come in with a boom lift, 2 guys, a stump grinder, and dump all of the debris, which should be several loads.

$200- rounded 2 guys pay
$250- boom lift (optional, you could climb and cut)
$150 stump grinder
$100 dump fee
+---------------
$700 just to do the job with the boom lift

$450 without the lift

You should try to leave that job with $1,000 in your pocket, while you smile and drive off:waving:

But, I really couldn't say for sure unless I seen the tree in a real life scale!

[tylermckee]

plenty of room there to flop it over whole, limb it, buck it into chunks a couple guys can haul off. Get a couple min. wage labourers to clean up the mess and you will be out of there before the day is over.

[Grassmechanic]

$600-$700. 2 guys, 1/2 days work. That tree isn't that big. Look at the house for scale. I betcha I wouldn't even be the low bid.

[SodKing]

Subcontracxt it to a tree company, (they will charge you $600) you can then charge the client $700 and didn't have to do anything. If you don't do it every day it should be deemed outside your scope of work. This is an easily subcontracted job. It should take a tree company about 1-2 hours max...

[jazak]

Don't touch it for less than $1,500- $1,800, if they really want it to come down, they'll pay it.
Its kinda hard to tell the actual size of that tree, in the first pic it looks huge as hell, but in the second pic it looks smaller

*This estimate is off the first pic
I'd tell the customer just like this, " Your looking at least $1,500-$1,800, I have to come in with a boom lift, 2 guys, a stump grinder, and dump all of the debris, which should be several loads.

$200- rounded 2 guys pay
$250- boom lift (optional, you could climb and cut)
$150 stump grinder
$100 dump fee
+---------------
$700 just to do the job with the boom lift

$450 without the lift

You should try to leave that job with $1,000 in your pocket, while you smile and drive off:waving:

But, I really couldn't say for sure unless I seen the tree in a real life scale!


YOU'RE CRAZY NO ONE AROUND HERE WOULD CHARGE MORE THEN $1100!!!


You shouldn't give out the price get a TREE GUY to come out and give you a price then add like $150 to it and let them take care of it. I get subbed out by MANY landscapers around here because they know that I know what I'm doing and they don't. Also because they don't want the hassle of taking it all away. But just get a TREE GUY in there and add $150 to the price.

[All_Clear]

$900 no less.... It's hard to tell the real size from a picture, as pictures can be deceiving.

If your renting anything, homeowner pays cost of rental...

Shouldn't take more then a day...

All Clear

[Fordsuvparts]

I agree, you should leave it to a professional tree service who has the proper insurance and equipment. That is a 1000.00 tree around here and we have a 60' bucket chip dump and a large chipper. A 3 or 4 man crew should be there about 4 hours.

[out4now]

I agree with what has been said, most insurance companies would consider it outside your scope. You'd have to check your policy. Get a price from a professional and add a little to it.

[KINGjosh]

[QUOTE=jazak]YOU'RE CRAZY NO ONE AROUND HERE WOULD CHARGE MORE THEN $1100!!!

Your not the first person to tell me that in my life. LOL But if you would have read my entire post you would relize that I said that tree looks huge to me and I cant really say on the price becasuse I don't know the true size of that tree.

So in reality everybody's who replied to this question is CRAZY MAN

[Audrey]

Call me crazy.... but I'd do it for $1000. Get what you can easily off from the bottom, then drop it. No more than 1.5 hrs. to hack it up, + load/unload a 16ft for day one. Home by 3 for a cold one. Day two, load and finish clean. If I am feeling ambitious, I keep the trunk as long as possible. I winch it/them on, then off to the sawmill. If they get funny because of possible metal, I can either dispose of it there, or home to the burn pile it goes. If they take it, it's a couple of bucks in my pocket, or the lumber.

Have no less than two saws and multiple chains. No jobsite downtime and it's good money. Heck, I'd rather do this than cut grass.

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[godzilla]

I'm sorry, but that thing isn't worth more than $500. That is with the stump staying however. Stump goes and I'd say $600 on the HIGH side. Odds are you wouldn't be able to get that around here.

[Runner]

That's about what it would go for around here.