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Maui Palm & Tree Care

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Pukalani, Hawaii
All you palm guys out there. just wondering what you charge per palm and do you have allot of cheaper competition and have tons of palms in your area? from what i understand is if you have lots of palms like we do in hawaii, the price per palm tends to go down because there is allot more competition. i have been charging $100 per coconut palm in varying heights and sizes and that's not spike less. i get called too expensive and people tell me they are getting their palms done for $30 a pop
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. thoughts opinions? do you think $100 a palm is too cheapy?
 
We charge $65 per coco but if there is rigging involved (having to rope off all the fronds/fruits then the price goes up. A lot of guys will do it for 25 - 35, but the quality of palm trimming varies quite a bit too.

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From 125.00 to 200.00 for wash palms out in So-CAL ... and that's w/clean up and no hooks ,, I 'm doing 27 palms next wk , some have full skirts and some very little , 40 to 50 ft in height get it done in day and half $1.500

Later in SO-CAL
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I bid a job here - trim big Elm for $680. Guy said he just moved from Hawaii, guys there would do something like that for $300. I told him: Fly your tree guy to Seattle or ship your tree to Hawaii for a trim.
He called back and said do job...
 
Here in the Florida Keys, I charge $65.00 per palm for easy ones. The price goes up from there. We have some tree companies doing them for $35.00-$45.00 per palm...they never stay in busness long enough to do me damage.
 
i wonder if jesse huffman wants to chime in on this.

jonathan, when i get more established and become certified id really like to work with some more hawaii arborists to improve palm care and public education on palm care for the state of hawaii. i hate going down the road and seeing feather duster coconut palms.
 
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Here in the Florida Keys, I charge $65.00 per palm for easy ones. The price goes up from there. We have some tree companies doing them for $35.00-$45.00 per palm...they never stay in busness long enough to do me damage.

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I'm impressed...

Just up the coast from you in West Palm Beach I hear rumors of $10 a palm. In central FL $45 would be a lot, most are going for $20-$25 each.

Maybe I sould move to the Keys.
 
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Here in the Florida Keys, I charge $65.00 per palm for easy ones. The price goes up from there. We have some tree companies doing them for $35.00-$45.00 per palm...they never stay in busness long enough to do me damage.

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I'm impressed...

Just up the coast from you in West Palm Beach I hear rumors of $10 a palm. In central FL $45 would be a lot, most are going for $20-$25 each.

Maybe I sould move to the Keys.

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We pay .06 per pound to dump debris. A palm not pruned for one year can have 300pounds of debris or more...that's $18.00 just to dump debris, and that's not counting the time it takes to get to the dump. So to clean palms at 20-25 means 2-7 dollars per palm...at the end of the day you would be paying out more than whats coming in.

Your dump fees must be less than ours. Additionally, how long does it take to clean one palm? What does it cost to operate their business per hour?
 
our dump fees are about the same. all see if i can get a printed receipt from our next dump. im pretty sure its somewhere around $10 per 200 pounds. takes me about 5- 10 minutes per coconut palm to clean it out IE, seed pods, fronds growing lower then the 2:00 and 10:00 positions, remove all excess paper, loose petioles from the last trimming etc. sometimes the really overgrown ones require lowering coconuts out with rope and pulley. the racks of coconuts can weigh up to 300 pounds each!! plus each frond weighs anywhere from 30-50 pounds. a really over grown palm can get up to 1,000 pounds of green waste.
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