If you ever have tree work done, get several quotes. We’ve spent several thousands over the years in trees. Our last house was covered in giant oak trees. And this house, when we moved in, we had to have a 110 year old tree taken down. It was planted too close to our 100+ year old house and had grown into the gutters. It costs extra in those cases, especially when they are hard to access with trucks. Anyhow, we have 3 guys that we use and each time their prices vary wildly. One is never the cheapest. It just depends.
One branch is probably very cheap. We also had a large pecan tree cut down because it dripped sap all over our cars. That stuff doesn’t come off!!! And we don’t have a garage
We have had to take down an Ash tree (victim of the Emerald Ash Borer) that was huge. The tree company worked for 3 1/2 days (a full team and lots of heavy equipment). I paid him $2,500 and he told me afterward that he lost his shirt on the project (have used him many times so he felt comfortable telling me). I would say around my parts it is about $1,000 for a day’s tree work.
I estimate that since I bought this house, 35 years ago, we have removed probably 100 trees and probably spent close to $100,000! And no tree we cut down ever looked that dead inside (I don’t know what was keeping that tree upright).
We had a large ash tree taken down last summer…and it was over $2000 to be done. It was very very very tall, and also was in a spot that had difficult access.
A large maple fell in our property. I was running getting quotes from tree people. My husband was not fazed… it gave him an excuse to buy another e-chainsaw. He chunked that sucker and took the chunks to the wood recycling yard. Several truckloads of it! Don’t ask me why there is a big dent on the side of the truck… he used the truck to pull a dead tree off it’s stump that he cut… the operation was 95% successful
I guess we annoyed our neighbors with our chainsaw noise!
I’m thankful my husband worked as a lumberjack in Alaska for several years. We live in the woods and he can take down most trees that need to be removed. We occasionally have to hire someone if a tree is too close to power lines or could fall the wrong way.
In our neck of the woods, that would be a $3-5,000 tree removal. We had an 80 ft, 100 yo oak that was leaning towards the house. The crane alone was $1200, took two trucks to load the tree and haul away. Our tree guy charged $2700, and he is VERY reasonable for the area, having gotten estimates for tree work from other vendors. Not the cheapest bid I got, but he’s a trained arborist with excellent references, and he’d done other work on trees in our yard before tackling the big oak.
That much internal rot and the fact that the tree wasn’t protected by a stand of other trees in case of high winds was a disaster waiting to happen.
One neighbor and I annoyed each other by increasingly cutting just a little more into the other’s yard when mowing the lawn each week. If we’d kept it up, we’d have been cutting each other’s entire yards eventually.
One of my neighbor’s kids used to eat the satsumas off our bush, which would be fine normally but was annoying because our pathetic bush only grew a few satsumas. I discovered who it was by following the trail of peels back to their house.
I do many things to annoy my neighbors, I am sure. But the biggest is probably having my dog outside when the mail is delivered or the UPS/FedEx truck rumbles by. His favorite thing in life is to run up and down the fence line and bark at the delivery people. I cannot deny him that pleasure, but it results in a solid half hour of barking sometimes.
Agree that this was probably several thousand dollars to remove. there was a guy waaaaay up in the top of the tree cutting the branches and tossing them down. The only advantage is that the tree was easily accessible, being right up by the street. Here’s a pic that gives a little perspective on the size:
The lots in our community are 1 1/2 to 2 acres and our lot backs to a ravine. Our two neighbors are very nice but I do have two nits…
Neighbor #1 please stop feeding the wildlife. Let them be wild and fear humans for their own good. Unfortunately the elk family no longer fears me and I can’t shoo them from munching on some newly planted trees
Neighbor #2 I really like your Lamborghini, but you don’t have to gun it 3 or 4 times after you start it up. That - I can hear.
All this tree talk reminded me of when our neighbor asked us to cut down the tree in our front yard about a year after we bought the house. They didn’t like the sticky balls that littered their front yard - what if the kids want to walk barefoot out front?
I would always rack them up, but she would still ask.
In our area, tree removal is very expensive. I finally said to her, “You pay for it, I’ll take it down. Otherwise, not happening.”
So that was that!
Ahh, thanks for the reminder. Our neighbors probably hate us for our female Ginko tree that in the fall gets stinky fruit that falls and splits open when ripe. We too clean them up daily - and in fact the last few years have trialed an injection to give it to stop it from reproducing (like the birth control pill for a tree!!) - it worked for a couple years but seems to be losing its effectiveness.
My husband has a degree in forestry and while the ginkgos are annoying for a few weeks, cutting down a healthy decades old tree is not in his heart!
Our neighbors are actually all pretty nice, and we keep to ourselves unless someone needs something, so I don’t have much to complain about. Our houses are 200ish feet from the curb, so large front areas. Our neighbor has an “interesting” yard at best. When we moved in it was all large white rocks. Then at some point he put up a front yard fence, and fast growing trees to block in the entire yard. He had to remove some of the trees at some point, and now all but the ones up by the house are gone. But they have a combination of grass and a bunch of “stations” or staged ares - made with rocks that are fused together and other things. For example there’s an old bicycle and bridges, random table and chair stations, and I can’t remember what else. He is 80+ and spends LOTS of time in the yard. People either like it, or really don’t. We think it may impact our property value if we decide to sell our house.
