Bid that tree!

[Neill]

$3250.00

you and @levi r are in agreement

 

[Matias]

I think the guy I was working for would bid that for like $1500, and then complain that he wasn't making any money.

 

[southsoundtree]

Does it overhang the house?




To me, an important aspect of this thread is contact 'spec' phrasing. How would you write this job in your contract?

 

[Boomslang]

That would be a $5000+ tree around here for any reputable company.

 

[Neill]

Does it overhang the house?




To me, an important aspect of this thread is contact 'spec' phrasing. How would you write this job in your contract?

It’s about 15’ from the home and leans towards it, plenty of limbs and tops are over or near the plane of the home

 

[Neill]

That would be a $5000+ tree around here for any reputable company.

I was thinking it was a 4-6k tree.. it’s not really a difficult removal, with ample space to work and plenty of room between the big limbs and the roof but gawd it’s a girthy trunk and plenty to deal with.
I can’t possibly remove this one since I have 0 equipment but I gave them a cut and leave price of 2645
Ps, there is room to drop the final stem 30-40’

 

[Serf Life]

$3-3.5k and note that it will not be immaculate cleanup. Especially post thaw.

 

[Bendroctanus]

That would be a $5000+ tree around here for any reputable company.

The ether must be a ritzy place.

 

[Bendroctanus]

I was thinking it was a 4-6k tree.. it’s not really a difficult removal, with ample space to work and plenty of room between the big limbs and the roof but gawd it’s a girthy trunk and plenty to deal with.
I can’t possibly remove this one since I have 0 equipment but I gave them a cut and leave price of 2645
Ps, there is room to drop the final stem 30-40’

I say $3250, but my wife would take that and tell me to put another grand on it. She knows me too well. We joke that she should do the bids. Well, she jokes. I’m serious.

 

[southsoundtree]

Look at them together.

 

[Boomslang]

I'd probably rent a crane for about 2k and then want 3k for myself, so 5k. If I'm rigging that out I'm probably going 6k. With the lean toward the house everything is going to end up coming down over top of it or closer to it. A lot of screens and windows there....
Possible friggin around with speed lines or taglines.

Or you could go full cowboy and take it in 4 or 5 pieces pulled into the open area.

No matter what that's a shitload of material to move and dispose of. That's where most of the cost comes from.

Just expanding on my perspective.

 

[evo]

I tend to use the phrase ‘yeah I use to do that, it when it hurts to bend over to give my daughter a hug when I get home it’s not worth it’. ‘What’s that hug worth to you?’

 

[Friedrich]

I think the guy I was working for would bid that for like $1500, and then complain that he wasn't making any money.

you worked for me?

 

[Njdelaney]

If that tree is really 100' tall and 42" DBH, it should be at least $4k. That is a lot of material. I think I would bid it at $5k. Our mini is so small it would have to take the trunk wood in 36" pieces and that's lots of pieces

 

[Reach]

If we could get a crane near it, we would lift it out of there in a couple pieces, probably $2800 and one of the local hacks would charge half that and get the job.The logs have value, they would pay for their own trucking at least. Seems like a project that would take about two hours on site.

 

[Bendroctanus]

I'd probably rent a crane for about 2k and then want 3k for myself, so 5k. If I'm rigging that out I'm probably going 6k. With the lean toward the house everything is going to end up coming down over top of it or closer to it. A lot of screens and windows there....
Possible friggin around with speed lines or taglines.

Or you could go full cowboy and take it in 4 or 5 pieces pulled into the open area.

No matter what that's a shitload of material to move and dispose of. That's where most of the cost comes from.

Just expanding on my perspective.

I didn’t mean to say you’re expensive, or to be negative in any way. You’re probably right on the money. When you said, “around here” I tried to see where you’re out of and saw the ether. That and you put higher than I did, I tried for a humorous remark. I like your perspective.

 

[Boomslang]

I didn’t mean to say you’re expensive, or to be negative in any way. You’re probably right on the money. When you said, “around here” I tried to see where you’re out of and saw the ether. That and you put higher than I did, I tried for a humorous remark. I like your perspective.

No offense taken. We're all in different markets, with different expertise, different approaches, different equipment, different rules and regs, different customers. That's what makes this thread so fun. You get to see how the other side lives so to speak.

Did I mention I'm in Canada? So we even get to see different currencies. $5000 loonies is roughly $3600 freedom units. Not far off when you put it like that.

For comparison sake, here are two large pine I've done in the past couple of years.

This one was ~100ft and 36" DBH. No cleanup. $3000



The one closest to the house here was ~80ft and 28" DBH. Full cleanup. $4000

 

[Neill]

If that tree is really 100' tall and 42" DBH, it should be at least $4k. That is a lot of material. I think I would bid it at $5k. Our mini is so small it would have to take the trunk wood in 36" pieces and that's lots of pieces

I know the photo doesn’t do it justice, wide angle lense is great for fitting the whole tree in the frame but awful for showing scale

 

[southsoundtree]

Pics with a person close to the tree for scale, or a known-size object that's available, would help.



How is access in and (loaded) out?

Distance to shop?

Disposal method?

 

[davidwyby]

I have a 50’ lift that I think will reach them all. Also a Telehandler “crane” but transportation is a hassle.

Bump for opinions on oaks…?