need some help with pirces here. Two spruce trees about 70-80 feet tall 30in dhb. Stones around are pretty old. Plan on lowering everything and zip lining what I can. They want prices on just cutting and total clean up leaving the stumps. Any help would be great.
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DonnyO
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whatever the market will bear
ask for 10k and see what happens
ask for 10k and see what happens
jonseredbred
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$1200.00
Treeman587
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Because it is winter, it is slow, and that is what the customer wants.
We can give them good advice, they don't have to take it though.
We can give them good advice, they don't have to take it though.
oldirty
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pretty sure the guy under the tree is getting sick off the roots undermining his "house". bet he made the call.
and if the stone is really that old he is gonna be rolling around in there due to the #'s you guys are throwing at him.
oldirty
and if the stone is really that old he is gonna be rolling around in there due to the #'s you guys are throwing at him.
oldirty
Timberhauler
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I'd have to see the trees porsonally....But I'd probably be somewhere between $1500 and $2000
woodbutcher44
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$1100 - $1400 depending on how close you con got to load. You said it its winter put some change in your pocket.
Sunrise Guy
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From what I can see---$1200, if you can pull right up to 'em, $1500 if it's a long haul.
booboo
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I'd agree with the $1500, up to maybe $1800 price for full removal and cleanup, leaving the stumps. Of course it depends on the market in your area, don't know where in NY you are, and assuming that there's nothing funky that we can't see in the pictures. I personally won't price jobs by photos, I have to inspect the tree also, just too many variables.
A word of warning though, having done contracts for several cemetaries. Those old stones can be super brittle, you've got to be really careful around them. Also, old stones usually means old, wooden boxes too and they don't hold much weight. Concrete vaults hold a lot more weight, but you still have to be careful. Dropping a log or the wheel of a loader into one is bad, I dropped the front tire of a backhoe into a wooden box, not good. If you're going to do it while there is frost, that will help a lot, but old stones and wooden boxes increases the price.
Cheers
A word of warning though, having done contracts for several cemetaries. Those old stones can be super brittle, you've got to be really careful around them. Also, old stones usually means old, wooden boxes too and they don't hold much weight. Concrete vaults hold a lot more weight, but you still have to be careful. Dropping a log or the wheel of a loader into one is bad, I dropped the front tire of a backhoe into a wooden box, not good. If you're going to do it while there is frost, that will help a lot, but old stones and wooden boxes increases the price.
Cheers
diltree
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looks like there is some snow on the ground......dont get stuck! How can I give you a price? Tree's that may take me an hour could take you several, or visa versa...........
John Paul Sanborn
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I agreee with the brittle old stone comment. My first tohught when I saw pic 2 was that that thin piece of marble would stap like a twig. once the long low branches are out of the way it would be cake.
If you can get a loader up to it, you can slide the lower chunks into the bucket.
I've done this with a high-loader before
If you can get a loader up to it, you can slide the lower chunks into the bucket.
I've done this with a high-loader before
1I'dJak
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definetly plunk something over those stones...bad medicine to bust one of those things up
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