Help on a bid.

[sgreanbeans]

Not small trees there all mature and include ash pine oak and birch think is there all on a hill side that i have to clear which is open so trees will fall no problem its the matter that i have to get them cleaned and outa there as well is whats goin to be time consuming

Well then, I would say you are WAY LOW. Basically, @ 2g's for 50 big mature trees for 40 each! AND YOU HAVE TO CLEAN THEM UP! I cant see the site, but what I am picturing, would be north of 6-7 g's easy, maybe more. Better regroup, you are about too lose your a s s. When working on a hill side, the danger goes way up, when you have them down and are bucking them up, make sure ur on the upside! Normally I dont talk money, mine anyways, but for comparison, I am starting 3 removals on a flat, completey open yard, later today. Med to big pin oaks and a maple for 4300, after he used his coupon for 10% off. This job should take me a day and a half to 2 days.

 

[shooterschafer]

$50 a tree to notch and drop, and $200 each if i gotta pull them over.

If I made that much for every tree I felled - delimbed - and bucked while logging I would be retired and living the high life.:msp_wink:

 

[no tree to big]

ok so i have a job coming up and i bid it at $2,000.00 thats cutting and cleaning roughly 50 trees and cutting into sections having to clean the site up and get rid of the wood mind you this job is about an hour and a half drive and i have to think of gas costs of a truck with V10 Triton motor and pulling trailor to high or too low????

I think you need to post some before pics do you need to haul all debris from the site or can you leave chips? how close is the place to dump? you own a chipper? bob cat? how many guys? either way unless there tiny trees it does not sound like a good outcome

I bid a lot clearing not to long ago it had a total of 36 trees but 2/3 of them were baby trees, pines a few cedars mulberry saplings there were a couple 50 foot pines a medium sycamore and a good sized silver maple everything was a flopper except the maple which you could climb up 15 feet and bomb 4 huge chunks off and done. I bid the job at 2500 to do and haul everything but I was going to have a buddy drop a 40yd box on site to chip into and dump logs into for cheap prob 2-3 bills. by my self I figured 1 1/2 days my only expense would have been 75-100 bucks in fuel on top of the dumpster, with two people a day