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the Aerialist
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I'm just a lightweight compared to the heavy hitters here but...
$3500 early this year is the most I've bid and won for a single tree, a really huge Chinese Elm. Sub-freezing temperature starts for the whole job. Crew costs ate up most of the profit on that one though, I should have bid $4500. The guy couldn't even get a bid on it from the people who came and looked.
Steeply sloped backyard with no access for a bucket or crane, it towered over everything with leads the size of normal big wood. Over the house, the service lines to two homes, high tension lines in the back of it, and a shed nearly touching it at the base. Working it was a complex puzzle, but most of it was solid and it's height offered good tie in and rigging points.
I wish I had video of it but it was too cold to mess with cameras. After the upper canopy was down the one major lead that I could bomb out of it hit vertically and planted itself about 3' into the yard straight up. It looked like a tree that grew there and was a bit*h to get out.
High point of the job was when Lewis Tree Service came down the road doing line clearance and stopped to watch for a while.
$3500 early this year is the most I've bid and won for a single tree, a really huge Chinese Elm. Sub-freezing temperature starts for the whole job. Crew costs ate up most of the profit on that one though, I should have bid $4500. The guy couldn't even get a bid on it from the people who came and looked.
Steeply sloped backyard with no access for a bucket or crane, it towered over everything with leads the size of normal big wood. Over the house, the service lines to two homes, high tension lines in the back of it, and a shed nearly touching it at the base. Working it was a complex puzzle, but most of it was solid and it's height offered good tie in and rigging points.
I wish I had video of it but it was too cold to mess with cameras. After the upper canopy was down the one major lead that I could bomb out of it hit vertically and planted itself about 3' into the yard straight up. It looked like a tree that grew there and was a bit*h to get out.
High point of the job was when Lewis Tree Service came down the road doing line clearance and stopped to watch for a while.
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tree md
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$4200 is the highest I've got for a tree that I can remember off the top of my head. The job entailed 3 large crane removals that went over 10K. I have done more in a single bid but it was an entire complex in a residential community.
I bid one for around 20K in the past two months but it was multiple storm damaged trees with very bad access. Didn't get it. I also just bid one for $7500 on another residential complex. He opted to go with pruning instead of removal which was considerably less.
I bid one for around 20K in the past two months but it was multiple storm damaged trees with very bad access. Didn't get it. I also just bid one for $7500 on another residential complex. He opted to go with pruning instead of removal which was considerably less.
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ForTheArborist
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12.5K on a dozen trees. I was impressed with myself on top of operations. Just had to say that. Did a 5k and 8k right after that.
STLfirewood
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I Bid and got an Oak for $4850. It was a big nasty oak hanging over a house and powerlines. The lines were about 5ft from the tree. I had Rope come and get it down for me. It was a nasty tree. I also did a cotton wood that was 6ft dbh. I did it in a three tree package. I figured it was about $5500 of a $8k bid. I had another company (good friend with better equipment and a climber) put them on the ground for 2k. He charged me $250 an hour. I did the clean up everything was hauled a 1/8 mile to the City's tub grinder. Skid steer with a grapple and dump trailers was all I needed for the job. My biggest job was a small hillside clearing job. It was 125ft by 230ft of honey suckle about 10ft tall. The hill was very hard to walk very steep. Some places you had to use the honey suckle stumps to keep up from sliding down the hill while cutting. I chipped almost 40yards of honey suckle. That job paid $10k Like I said though I am small time and I don't do much tree work. I'm lucky to have other work that I only have to take the jobs I want at the prices I want.
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tree md
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I subbed on one here that the cleanup went for 30K. Trees laying around like match sticks. I only took the three hazard trees out. One was uprooted and hung up in another and both were bowed over the house. Took me about 6 hours. To tell the truth, I wouldn't want any part of the cleanup on that one. I was happy to just put the bad ones on the ground and collect my fee.
lets see if I can remember some of these prices from jobs I was on
big american elm ~50"dbh one of 4 leaders split of and leveled 2 garages 5K and change three grapple loads of logs and a mear 20yards of chips 6-7hrs
oak tree on a house 28-30" 4300ish 3 hours with the crane cha ching
biggest job I seen a price tag on 150 small to medium, a few bigguns, ash trees 3 days of stuffing the chipper with the grapple two chip trucks runing chips nonstop also stump them all 35K only 4 guys (thank you eab)
we have done lots of other big money jobs i just havn't seen price tags to say for sure.
big american elm ~50"dbh one of 4 leaders split of and leveled 2 garages 5K and change three grapple loads of logs and a mear 20yards of chips 6-7hrs
oak tree on a house 28-30" 4300ish 3 hours with the crane cha ching
biggest job I seen a price tag on 150 small to medium, a few bigguns, ash trees 3 days of stuffing the chipper with the grapple two chip trucks runing chips nonstop also stump them all 35K only 4 guys (thank you eab)
we have done lots of other big money jobs i just havn't seen price tags to say for sure.
arborpros
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Biggest job for me was a $33,250 storm clean up. It was at an approx. million dollar + home on 5 wooded acres that a tornado ripped through. There were 72 trees of various sizes strewn about the property like match sticks. Biggest being a 60" dia oak. Lots of uprooted root balls. Took 6 days with 6 guys to clean up the wood. Another 2.5 days to get the root balls out and another 1.5 days to grade everything out and seed and straw. It was a really good job that I was able to use my families various businesses to complete. Kept everyone very busy and was able to pay them well. The job site was about 4 miles from the dump so that helped out a lot also.
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Highest bid, was around 14k if I remember right. Had 3 Doug. Firs, 4 Walnuts, and a Silver Maple, alive; some sort of dead conifer, and 2 dead Ash trees. Some were close to houses, some not so close, only 5 had to be climbed. I climbed the Maple to set a high central rig point, it had a cherry LZ.
God Bless everyone, glad people are still making $$ in this country. It's reassuring.
God Bless everyone, glad people are still making $$ in this country. It's reassuring.
treeman82
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$17,500 for a single uprooted oak tree. they got somebody else to do the job.
Biggiest bid on the smallest tree
Couple months ago a friend sent me a pic of a small front yard tree to be taken out. Gave a quote of $150 figuring the time and hassle getting the root ball out. Tree turned out to be barely 7 feet tall dead and 5 inch dbh. Root ball was so shallowed so I yanked it out with my truck. Whole thing taken down, cut up and put in my trailer in 20 mins tops. Felt bad so offered to charge $100 instead but they insist in honoring the original bid of $150.
Donnie
Couple months ago a friend sent me a pic of a small front yard tree to be taken out. Gave a quote of $150 figuring the time and hassle getting the root ball out. Tree turned out to be barely 7 feet tall dead and 5 inch dbh. Root ball was so shallowed so I yanked it out with my truck. Whole thing taken down, cut up and put in my trailer in 20 mins tops. Felt bad so offered to charge $100 instead but they insist in honoring the original bid of $150.
Donnie
millbilly
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Are you sure it was a Chinese Elm?
treevet
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excuse me if you read this before. I been around here for a while and all of us like me tend to retell stories (like Rope's ubiquitous hollow oak tree pict lol). Plus it is not kosher to kiss and tell ....but....
I cut a tree in half for over Ten Thousand Dollars!
It was the biggest Bur oak in the state of Ohio and a little taller than 140 feet (measured). It is over 500 years old by an increment boring in 1980 at 480 years old done by OSU.
It was hit by a severe downshear and a leader crushed the south side of the house. 2 other codom crotches were split too and gaping open in the wind, one was sure to crush the remainder of the house. I am standing there with the ho and she said will you make it safe for me.
How much is your life worth I thought. I will throw out a price that I will risk my life for but still do the job if she says to go ahead. She immediately said to go ahead.
Brought in the best tree crane in the city and one of the top 3 ops, maybe the best....maybe tied all three. Had a very tight pucker goin on when he boomed me 140' to the top and I attached the choker to the maybe 20,000 lb leader. If it detaches....we all go down...the leader, me, and the crano.
It held until I cut it back to laterals and then I did the entire tree to approx the same ht. without snapping one lateral. The tree has a full and lush 70' canopy now that has shed a few 10,000 lb sections (I rigged out) over the 7 years since I did this but the ho's are delighted I SAVED this tree when no one else would have. 3 kids are growing up playing under this 10'dia trunk and play on the swing I installed.
Just visited the tree in the rear of the house just down the hill on my block to check for fractures about 4 hours ago and I still feel comfortable with what I did. I get some people asking "how could you prune that tree that way?" Removal was the ONLY alternative.
I cut a tree in half for over Ten Thousand Dollars!
It was the biggest Bur oak in the state of Ohio and a little taller than 140 feet (measured). It is over 500 years old by an increment boring in 1980 at 480 years old done by OSU.
It was hit by a severe downshear and a leader crushed the south side of the house. 2 other codom crotches were split too and gaping open in the wind, one was sure to crush the remainder of the house. I am standing there with the ho and she said will you make it safe for me.
How much is your life worth I thought. I will throw out a price that I will risk my life for but still do the job if she says to go ahead. She immediately said to go ahead.
Brought in the best tree crane in the city and one of the top 3 ops, maybe the best....maybe tied all three. Had a very tight pucker goin on when he boomed me 140' to the top and I attached the choker to the maybe 20,000 lb leader. If it detaches....we all go down...the leader, me, and the crano.
It held until I cut it back to laterals and then I did the entire tree to approx the same ht. without snapping one lateral. The tree has a full and lush 70' canopy now that has shed a few 10,000 lb sections (I rigged out) over the 7 years since I did this but the ho's are delighted I SAVED this tree when no one else would have. 3 kids are growing up playing under this 10'dia trunk and play on the swing I installed.
Just visited the tree in the rear of the house just down the hill on my block to check for fractures about 4 hours ago and I still feel comfortable with what I did. I get some people asking "how could you prune that tree that way?" Removal was the ONLY alternative.
Good call, millbilly!
I'm betting on Siberian elm, myself.
I'm betting on Siberian elm, myself.
arborpros
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That sounds pretty cool. Once in a lifetime job right there. Something about those old trees. Any pictures?
