235 year old Elm to come down

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20' is about 6.25' diameter. A big tree but $20,000 seems crazy for it. If somebody bid that high just for the removal, I think that would make them seems crazy if other bids came on much lower, which they should have just for a normal takedown. It looks like there are wires on 1 side of it. With a crane, I would think that tree should be down and out in 2 days MAX maybe not the stump, figure if the DBH is @ 6.25', its probably got a 7-8' stump. Maybe the 20k is for milling the wood and what not. I am pretty damn sure the company I work for could have that tree down, ground, seeded, and milled for 20k(and probably kiln dried).

Anyway you look at it, it's a shame to lose such a large tree. We took down the fattest pin oak I have ever seen a few months ago, it was a shame but it was dying hard. Just last month we were gonna put a lightning protection set up in a state champ red oak, it's started dying hard this summer and we decided not to, it was too far gone.

http://www.bing.com/maps/#JnE9eXAueWFua2...TUuODM4MzU2MDE4

click on aerial and birdeye then zoom in, it at the corner of Yankee and East Main.

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man that is a big tree! i wish that it would zoom closer
 
Asplundh bid $36,000 on a 150 foot cottonwood recently, that was just under 6 feet dbh. I bid $10,000...Dunno what happened....The tree next to it was harder, and if I'd submitted a bid, it would have been close to $20,000, and that was leaving a 30 foot snag......required a 100-150 ton crane. All brush had to be craned, with the crane possibly blocking a busy road. Can of worms job.....Let the low ballers have at it...Crane fees would have been as high as $500 per hr, if we had to work on a Sunday. Base rate here for a 100 tonner is abt $300/hr....
 
Conversely, I just sold a job to remove a 125 or so yr old big-leaf maple, 7 foot on the butt, declining. We'll leave the stump up just above the forks, at about 7 feet, as it will look cool, and the 80 yr old customer can still sort of enjoy the tree, that he's lived with for 56 years. Another bidder was at $3800. It's an easy tree, so I landed the job at $2200. The 4 curving leads will make nice furniture or bowls, so my craftsman and his bud with the little 40 foot boom truck will pick the bottom 40 feet or so for no crane fees to me! Leave the rest of the firewood, and go home happy!

Here's a slide show of the tree
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157622967138743/show/
 
Yep, Jeff, its big. Judging by the pic, a crane could set up in the driveway, a chipper a ways away, with room to set down 40 foot or longer limbs in between. A big tree, but don't see a need to shut any roads down, or mess with the power lines.....

If a crane could be had for $200/hr, I'd gladly wreck that tree out for $10,000, plus a couple grand for wood removal, and $1500 for the stump....or so......

Just guessing, of course.

And, if the trunk wood is reasonably straight and not rotten, it should be coveted by wood workers. It sure would out this way.
 
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the largest Ulmus americana in the ne probably has a 20' dbh. we memphians have Quercus nigra that get 12' dbh, they are kinda common here; my dad has a Ulmus americana that is two trees grafted together over time that is 7.5' dbh and 85' tall, it is beautiful. all the epicormic growth was left alone and makes a really nice scaffold branch structure. it's a great alternate lanyard tree. i'll take some pics tomorrow after work when i pic up my son.

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Jeff, I'm just going by what he said. We have some here in RI with a larger DBH (8'?), but Champion status involves crown spread and height as well. I don't know where he got the info that it's the biggest in NE, but he is a reliable source. He's the City Forester for Bath, ME, and he has known Frank Knight since 1980. I am pretty sure that he volunteers as a contributor to Maine's Big Tree Registry as well. I have never seen a U. americana with a DBH of 20', but I sure would like to! I'll do some more research when I have time.

-Tom
 
I dont mean to nitpik but...
what i learned way back when is that
circumference = pi r squared.

if you say 6.25 dbh

3.125 x 3.125 x 3.14 = 30.6

I said 5 dbh
which is

2.5 x 2.5 x 3.14 = 19.6
 
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