In article , chris French
writes

I've never had anything like this done, but the house we now live in
the previous owner had some serious lopping of 3 largish tree's done
and the bill (he left it behind with the paperwork) was something like
GBP 190. (lop, remove brush, saw and leave logs)

So you are talking a some hundreds I guess rather than 1000's

I've got a local tree surgeon coming round in a week or so to do a major
tidy up on a tree of heaven, remove two largish elders and remove three
(smallish) sumacs. He'll take everything avay and grind stump where
necessary. Not using poison on the sumac roots, so it'll be hand
pulling shoots for a while

He's charging what I consider to be a real bargain - £150 to do the lot.
He is qualified and insured. I think its the being local that makes
some of the difference - and the fact that he's a nice guy

Two other quotes we had were £290 + Vat and £450 + Vat.

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regards andyw