[SupremeLawns]

New to the business, feel like this is a basic/stupid question but I’ve been having trouble estimating plant removal and planting too even.

So I’m trying to estimate how much it would be to remove a long row of shrubs. It’s about 85 shrubs along a curbed driveway in 3/8 inch rock bed. The shrubs are about 2-4 feet. Price it per plant? It’s obviously a large amount of debris removal as well so that would be added in?

What about price to remove larger trees like 15-20 feet?

 

[TPendagast]

Everything
Everything
Is time and material

Step one is to figure out or know how you are going to do it.
If you don’t know how to do the job
You shouldn’t do it.
If you do know how, then you know how long it should take.
Then what material do you need?
Dump fees?
Refill hole?
Equipment rental?

Time x rate plus materials and markup = price.

There’s no way to get a price and then hope you accidentally figure out how to do the work the right way.
That’s backwards.
But that’s what most diy-for-pay mercenary types try to do it.
Get paid by unwary customers to learn how.

 

[Mitty87]

It's pretty easy, even if you don't have experience. Imagine yourself ripping out one shrub, about 5 minutes sound right? If not say 10. 85 X 10, 850/ hours - 14 hours. Times your hourly of $50, $700. Plus one or two trailer loads to dump, 2 hours plus dump fees. $800. Throw in 2 hours for those extra hard ones $900.

I recently had to tear out a lot I large stalked junipers and cedars etc. I prices for 1 hour each because they all had 2-5" stumps to dig. Did it in less than half the time.

Make sure to mentally note average times

 

[weeze]

$1000 minimum probably more. that's a pita job. i certainly wouldn't be digging anything out. i would be ripping them out with a truck or machine or something. also if you have to clean it up afterwards that's a whole nother ball game that would bump the price up even higher probably $1500.

 

[DeletedMember196207]

Yeah, gotta use a truck or skid steer with chains. I saw a guy using a skid steer with fork lift attachment and it was working great. I myself have only used a truck but I even pass on that now. Price it high as its hard work and hire a couple guys so you can tackle it correctly....I usually bid for an extra day hoping we get done early. It's a big job. I got $500 to pull 8 bushes and disposal I used my truck and it only took me 2 hrs total and I paid a laborer to do the shovel work and roots for a few hours.

 

[weeze]

i pulled up 3 smaller shrubs this spring. i only got $50 for it but that was ripping them out, dragging the to the woods, and leaving. no cleanup or anything. it took about 15-30min to do.

 

[sailfish27]

New to the business, feel like this is a basic/stupid question but I've been having trouble estimating plant removal and planting too even.

So I'm trying to estimate how much it would be to remove a long row of shrubs. It's about 85 shrubs along a curbed driveway in 3/8 inch rock bed. The shrubs are about 2-4 feet. Price it per plant? It's obviously a large amount of debris removal as well so that would be added in?

What about price to remove larger trees like 15-20 feet?

$1500. 3 guys, 1 starts at one end of the driveway 2nd helper starts at other end. You load.

Tell your guys whoever gets to 43 shrubs first makes an extra $100.