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Anyone had a big tree cut down?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:32:28 -0000, "Muddymike"
wrote: We have a large sycamore tree that has to come down as its endangering the roadside dry stone wall. Its a big bugger with four 2ft plus dia trunks three times the height of the house, and of course only three feet from a busy road! I'm waiting with anticipation for the first quote to come through. Any thoughts on a ballpark figure? I'm struggling to find anyone else interested in taking on the job so my usual three quote rule for a big job may have to me bypassed! Mike In April 2012 we had to have a very large willow taken down, in a rural area, beside the bridleway access to neighbours' house. Willow is relatively brittle, so it took our tree guy (who no longer climbs himself) a while to find a climber prepared to do the job. At least 3 of them for nearly 3 days, chipping smaller stuff and cutting the rest to pieces 1 man could move, but not stacking it. It had to be taken down in pieces, the remaining trunk about 15 feet tall was then felled - which made the house shake when it came down. They estimated it totalled about 8 tonnes of wood of all kinds. Cost just over £1,000, got £100 from a neighbour for some of the logs. Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades. |
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