Might have my first crane job soon, need advice.

[truestory]

Hi, I'm crew lead for a small company in the Eastern townships (Quebec, Canada). My boss is currently writting up a quote for a customer for taking down 3 white pines.. These trees were previously crown cleaned by myself before the land owners built a house under them. They are easily 100 feet tall and over 2 feet in diameter. Unfortunatly construction has led them to die. So the job would be removal of the 3 and taking away the wood. My boss being more '' old school'' is not thinking about using a crane, myself on the other hand , I belieive that a crane will save us much labor. Here are my questions:

How to estimate the cost of crane vs a trafitional piece by piece removal?
What should be taken into consideration when selecting and hiring a crane operator ( company)?
For the climbers safety, what is considered a safe tie in to the crane, how should a piece be cut off safely ( direction of cut, communication with operator.?
That all the questions I can think of now, if you have any addtional info please share. I wanna do this the right way! Thanks!

 

[Wayne Wilkinson]

Hope someone with some info shows up i would also like to know for the future. good questions.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

We've hit this topic pretty well recently. Check out the threads at the bottom of this page and see if that helps, then feel free to ask any questions you still have.