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[Gertie]

Hi everyone

 

I've finally moved into my new house complete with its 2.5 acres & billions of neglected trees. Steep learning curve! Has anyone any ideas for self management of smaller jobs (tools/techniques etc), & ideas for general costs on bigger jobs e.g felling large dead trees?

 

Going to get 3 quotes but always keen to get first hand customer feedback!

 

Thanks in advance

 

Gertie

[Egluntyne]

I had 8 trees seriously pruned back a couple of years ago, they were enormous and were reduced in height by about 1/3, and it cost £1,200.

[Eggasperated]

Our massive poplar tree that came down in the storms has so far cost £1400 to remove down to the stump and roots which are still out of the ground (the tree surgeon had thought it would drop back into the hole it was ripped from), it now looks like another £800 to remove that part . It is an insurance job so prices may be a bit on the high side.

 

5 years ago we had a smaller poplar removed and a fir tree reduced by a third for around £700.

[Olly]

I'd reckon around £100 per tree for heavy pruning/felling, based on work I've had done.

 

If you've got a lot of woodland, it might be worth going on a chainsaw course - you'd learn how to maintain it and use it safely, felling trees is a whole different game but this might help you to log them once felled or remove fallen ones.

[Redwing]

I'd recommend getting someone in to get it under control then trying to manage it yourself from there on, we paid fir some tree surgery when we first moved in and paid £150 per days work so it was cheap but the result wasn't very natural looking, the tree surgeon who did our conifer hedge charged more but did an excellent job so I do think that quality work is important

 

Do any of your tree lines run under power lines? Two of our three tree lined boundaries do so the utility company get someone in and the trees get maintained for free

[Gertie]

Hi

Thanks so much for the replies. So far had 2 guys come around. Waiting for quotes but one mentioned £200 approx for felling a 40year old scots pine. Does that sound reasonable? Think that would involve climb & sectioning. Others can just be felled & allowed to fall as there is space.

[Egluntyne]

It does sound reasonable. We paid £350 at work to fell a dangerous enormous scots pine that had rotted round the base a few months a go.

[redcharlie43]

Sounds very reasonable. We had a 400 year old oak tree removed from our garden in 2008 and the cheapest quite was £4000. Yes that is 4K! It had to be removed as it was destroying the hose but some quoted over 7K. to be fair it was about 35 metres high and just as wide but still I thought it was pretty expensive!!!

[Gertie]

Wow! That's a lot of money. Must have been one huge tree.

 

We got our quote today & I think it's reasonable. For about 4 big trees, 4 small, shrub clearance and ivy but leaving wood on site, about £2700. More than I can afford at the moment but I can get the big ones felled. Waiting for the other quotes.