Posted: 8/26/2014 5:15:17 PM EDT
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Is there any sort of price guide as to what to pay? I have a bunch of trees that need taken down that are close to my cabin and the garage that is there. I'm pretty handy with a saw but these are big and close, a little out of my league since I'm too old to climb. Pay by the hour, the day, the tree, how does it work? TIA |
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Is there any sort of price guide as to what to pay? I have a bunch of trees that need taken down that are close to my cabin and the garage that is there. I'm pretty handy with a saw but these are big and close, a little out of my league since I'm too old to climb. Pay by the hour, the day, the tree, how does it work? TIA Find a phone book for tree removal in Petersburg  About all I can offer.
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Typically by the tree, but there's no real guide due to the fact that every tree is different.
Just start calling for estimates until you hear a number you like. You may be able to save some if you do the clean up yourself... I saved a little money a few years ago by having them remove the limbs but leave the logs. I then gave the wood to friends with wood stoves. Edit - think it was 7 trees, all of them were able to come down in one piece by being pulled with a truck. I think the price was between $1500-$2,000 after grinding some of the stumps. |
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There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Quoted:
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Find a phone book for tree removal in Petersburg About all I can offer.There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Well, you know petersburg, probably the only peckerwood there
All my phonebooks are west of the Alleghenies  I swear the Allegheny Mtns are a divide to another world
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| I paid $100 per tree. I had 3 removed. They just dropped them. I cleaned the mess. Took them about 6 hours. I gave them a $100 tip. It was nothing I could handle. I would have paid twice that. They lowered every branch. Some jobs are well worth the price. Find somebody reputable and don't sweat the price. My guys earned their money. |
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There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Quoted:
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Find a phone book for tree removal in Petersburg About all I can offer.There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Check Craigslist and Backpage. When I bought my place earlier this year I had 4 big half dead trees removed that had to come down in sections because they were so close to the house. Also had 3 or 4 others trimmed. Took a team of guys 2 days, they took the wood to sell as firewood, cleaned everything up when they were done and it cost right at $4k. |
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Get multiple quotes. I had a tree that needed to come down. I prices ranging from $1200 to $6000 All of them were insured Did you have the same tree removed as me? 
I had the exact same range of quotes, went with a guy that wanted to use a crane for $1800. I was happy with the price and the work. I can't imagine the $6000 quote doing anything better. |
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Free over here. Just find someone that heats with firewood. My neighbor comes over all the time to take care of downed trees and trees that we don't want all the time. Yeah, I can find a bunch of goobers like that. They have to have insurance since all of the trees in question can fall on the cabin or garage. I'd do it myself if that wasn't the issue.
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Check Craigslist and Backpage. When I bought my place earlier this year I had 4 big half dead trees removed that had to come down in sections because they were so close to the house. Also had 3 or 4 others trimmed. Took a team of guys 2 days, they took the wood to sell as firewood, cleaned everything up when they were done and it cost right at $4k. Quoted:
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Find a phone book for tree removal in Petersburg About all I can offer.There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Check Craigslist and Backpage. When I bought my place earlier this year I had 4 big half dead trees removed that had to come down in sections because they were so close to the house. Also had 3 or 4 others trimmed. Took a team of guys 2 days, they took the wood to sell as firewood, cleaned everything up when they were done and it cost right at $4k. That sounds about right with the stump ground too around here As far as Craig's List? That area is probably still on dial up on a party line.
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That sounds about right with the stump ground too around here As far as Craig's List? That area is probably still on dial up on a party line. Quoted:
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Find a phone book for tree removal in Petersburg About all I can offer.There's only one peckerwood listed on YP for there. Check Craigslist and Backpage. When I bought my place earlier this year I had 4 big half dead trees removed that had to come down in sections because they were so close to the house. Also had 3 or 4 others trimmed. Took a team of guys 2 days, they took the wood to sell as firewood, cleaned everything up when they were done and it cost right at $4k. That sounds about right with the stump ground too around here As far as Craig's List? That area is probably still on dial up on a party line.  So true
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Smoke signals out there. Quoted:
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As far as Craig's List? That area is probably still on dial up on a party line. Smoke signals out there. Ah come now, your phone gets the interwebs over there, hell Petersburg has better cell reception that fucking Elkins.
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We charge by the tree. If all you wanted was the trees down it will be cheaper if you tell them that and that you'll do the cleanup. Once trees get near buildings and people have to climb or even bring in cranes prepare your buttonhole for the price. Yeah, I have a 12000 lb winch on my truck and a lot of rope with snatch blocks so I could safely do offset pulls on them, but I'm not going to climb high enough to rope them off at the correct height. 
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Advertise you have Coleman fuel, coffee filters and Sudafed in trade for tree removal. Instant success and you will no longer have to worry about a tree landing on you in your cabin, just be about 50 yards away.
ETA: Just thinking that it may be cheaper for you to just move the cabin. |
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Around here it is $100 per inch of diameter for complicated extractions. My brother had one that the previous owners had built his raised & roofed deck around, cost him $2200 for them to take it down to the stump without touching the roof with so much as a leaf.
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OP, it depends. On a lot of factors. Proximity to structures and power lines. Size. Condition. Health. Degree of difficulty of take down. Number of personnel and amount of equipment needed. Regional location. Knowledge, skills, training and ability of crew. Amount and quality of surety bonds, liability insurance, and workmen's comp insurance. And you definitely want to check the WC insurance, because if someone gets hurt or (God forbid), killed, and they don't have WC, or enough of it, the family is coming after you.
Ya get what ya pay for... 
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Around here it is $100 per inch of diameter for complicated extractions. My brother had one that the previous owners had built his raised & roofed deck around, cost him $2200 for them to take it down to the stump without touching the roof with so much as a leaf. Kharn Yikes! I think I'll buy a monkey and teach him how to rope off a tree. I can handle the rest.
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Around here it is $100 per inch of diameter for complicated extractions. My brother had one that the previous owners had built his raised & roofed deck around, cost him $2200 for them to take it down to the stump without touching the roof with so much as a leaf. Kharn Yikes! I think I'll buy a monkey and teach him how to rope off a tree. I can handle the rest. Don't get any ideas, I don't climb trees 
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You can get a few quotes, that's probably the best way. Some guys want to bring in trucks and crews, some guys will come in alone with some rope. But then again, some guys are insured, some guys aint. 
No insurance, they're not stepping foot on my place. But at those prices I can replace the garage for what it cost to have the trees removed. The cabin, not so much. 
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Just took down 7 of them next to the camp cut them up, moved them, and all by myself. C All were widow makers. One had broken and hit by chimney that caused a major leak in the roof. Hardware stores were closed. I have to go back to fix the roof and the chimney this weekend. I have more that surround the camp that are dead and dieing of spruce bud worms and some sort of stringy fungus that dry rots the shit out of them. The fungus is also attacking the pine trees. I'll take some picks this weekend. Funny when you have two foot logs that weigh like balsa wood. Sure makes it easy to move.  |
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I've had quite a few large trees taken down on my property and I've paid all kinds of prices. Some things I've learned:
1. Wait till winter if you can. Typically tree guys are scrambling during the winter months and you'll usually find a better deal. 2. Get alot of quotes, don't take the first guy. Prices are typically all over the price. I got $4500, $2800, and $1600 for the same job in the same week from different vendors. 3. Don't discount the companies. Most tree guys are just themselves and their pick-ups (alot of them rent equipment by the day for jobs) and you would think they would be cheaper. However, they also have to make money on every job or they might find themselves belly-up. The bigger companies (with employees, their own equipment, etc.) don't have to necessarily make money every job. Alot of time, they're looking more for a regular repeat customer than a profit day one. That's something the guy in the pick-up can't afford. Good luck! |
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Seriously, get the quotes.
I had a 40" at base white oak, 25 feet from my house. It'd already dropped about a third of it's weight on my roof some months prior, but overhung both my roof and the utility lines. I got a few quotes. I had a guy tell me $2800. I had a really shady motherfucker tell me $500. I had the guy that pulled the shit off my roof in my moment of need (like a goddamn ninja I might add, with insurance), quote me $1600. Deal. They brought in a bucket truck and a crew of four? Five?. Chipped and removed all of the brush, sawed everything worthwhile into 14" lengths so I could split it later. |