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

"Muddymike" wrote in message
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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
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Lane closure?
Crane?
TPO waver?
Remove all wood?
'Their' comprehensive Insurance?

Knowing what I do know from experience of trees felled and removed involving
all of the above except 'lane closure', I would expect £5000 - £6000

Mike



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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

Try the local council. Convince them it is a danger to those passing
by.

In a house I lived in my front garden and the garden next door shared
a sycamore tree that was leaning out over the road and was becoming an
hazard. Neither of us had planted the tree. It been there for decades
and was much too big to cut down. The council cut it into bits from
top down and removed it all for free.

Steve

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On 12/02/2014 11:32, 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



Yes, we have, but we didn't have to pay for it because it was on a
narrow strip of 'no man's land' between properties. The local Council
removed it.
In your position, I think I would approach the Council and ask if they
would do it, even if you have to pay. Better to pay the Council (who
will have all the equipment *and* know the appropriate Highways laws)
than some cowboy who may not even be insured. Putting your hard earned
cash in the Council's pocket has got to be better then lining 'Blogs the
Bodgers'pocket.
Hope it goes well.

--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On 12/02/2014 11:32, 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



Yes, we have, but we didn't have to pay for it because it was on a narrow
strip of 'no man's land' between properties. The local Council removed it.
In your position, I think I would approach the Council and ask if they
would do it, even if you have to pay. Better to pay the Council (who will
have all the equipment *and* know the appropriate Highways laws) than some
cowboy who may not even be insured. Putting your hard earned cash in the
Council's pocket has got to be better then lining 'Blogs the
Bodgers'pocket.
Hope it goes well.


That's two votes for involving the council, thank you. I will speak to them
once the quote is in.
I know what you mean about using properly insured operators, the guy that is
(hopefully) quoting is a reputable firm who already does a lot of tree work
for the local authority.

Mike

In article ,
Spider wrote:

On 12/02/2014 11:32, Muddymike wrote:

In your position, I think I would approach the Council and ask if they
would do it, even if you have to pay. Better to pay the Council (who
will have all the equipment *and* know the appropriate Highways laws)
than some cowboy who may not even be insured. Putting your hard earned
cash in the Council's pocket has got to be better then lining 'Blogs the
Bodgers'pocket.

What a good answer MM! Cheered me up!

John

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:27:40 +0000, Muddymike wrote:
's two votes for involving the council, thank you. I will speak to
them once the quote is in.
I know what you mean about using properly insured operators, the guy
that is (hopefully) quoting is a reputable firm who already does a lot
of tree work for the local authority.


It won't help you much, but I'm currently paying a local lad 10 €/hr to
take down large trees, including a big willow that was banging the roof.
I'm happy to say that one came down with no damage to the tiles!

-E




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On 12/02/2014 15:22, Another John wrote:
In article ,
Spider wrote:

On 12/02/2014 11:32, Muddymike wrote:

In your position, I think I would approach the Council and ask if they
would do it, even if you have to pay. Better to pay the Council (who
will have all the equipment *and* know the appropriate Highways laws)
than some cowboy who may not even be insured. Putting your hard earned
cash in the Council's pocket has got to be better then lining 'Blogs the
Bodgers'pocket.

What a good answer MM! Cheered me up!

John

We have just has a very large lime tree cut down and removed in very
similar circumstances, the third in a few years. The cost was just under
£1,000, previously we had a one company, but this time they were not
available. The cost was slightly lower than previously, but the last one
caused a fair amount of damage to the lawn. the first company set up
traffic control and stopped the traffic as necessary, the last lot did
it without. It is fascinating watching them climb the tree, very nimble,
but great care taken for safety equipment.
As regards the council doing it not likely and they would probably
charge more. Though it may be necessary to approach the council about
planning permission, which makes it a long drawn out process. If you
employ a good firm of specialists they will handle the whole process for
you. this was North Staffordshire, the cost else where (I'm thinking of
London particularly) may well cost considerably more

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.

In article ,
says...

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

On 12/02/2014 15:22, Another John wrote:
In article ,
Spider wrote:

On 12/02/2014 11:32, Muddymike wrote:

In your position, I think I would approach the Council and ask if they
would do it, even if you have to pay. Better to pay the Council (who
will have all the equipment *and* know the appropriate Highways laws)
than some cowboy who may not even be insured. Putting your hard earned
cash in the Council's pocket has got to be better then lining 'Blogs the
Bodgers'pocket.

What a good answer MM! Cheered me up!

John




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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

In article ,
says...

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!

15+ years ago I paid £300 to have a huge beech taken down (trunk
diameter 3 ft ) most of which which overhung the cottage. It took a
couple of days and involved a lot of high work/ skilful roping to
control the drops of high branches. The job was done by professional
insured forestry workers and included grinding the stump and chipping
the brash (the big stuff we saved for the woodstove).

10 years ago I paid another £300 to have a different professional
insured forester working alone take down and remove all debris from nine
cupressus all taller than this house, each of which was almost 2ft
diameter at the base.

Our tree fellers all worked for the Forestry Commission; if you have
any local FC it might be worth asking the management office.

Janet.

On 12/02/2014 18:38, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

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!

15+ years ago I paid £300 to have a huge beech taken down (trunk
diameter 3 ft ) most of which which overhung the cottage. It took a
couple of days and involved a lot of high work/ skilful roping to
control the drops of high branches. The job was done by professional
insured forestry workers and included grinding the stump and chipping
the brash (the big stuff we saved for the woodstove).

10 years ago I paid another £300 to have a different professional
insured forester working alone take down and remove all debris from nine
cupressus all taller than this house, each of which was almost 2ft
diameter at the base.

Our tree fellers all worked for the Forestry Commission; if you have
any local FC it might be worth asking the management office.

Janet.

What about Shaun, Paddy and Mick?
they're "tree fellers".

On 12/02/2014 20:15, David Hill wrote:
On 12/02/2014 18:38, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

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!

15+ years ago I paid £300 to have a huge beech taken down (trunk
diameter 3 ft ) most of which which overhung the cottage. It took a
couple of days and involved a lot of high work/ skilful roping to
control the drops of high branches. The job was done by professional
insured forestry workers and included grinding the stump and chipping
the brash (the big stuff we saved for the woodstove).

10 years ago I paid another £300 to have a different professional
insured forester working alone take down and remove all debris from nine
cupressus all taller than this house, each of which was almost 2ft
diameter at the base.

Our tree fellers all worked for the Forestry Commission; if you have
any local FC it might be worth asking the management office.

Janet.

What about Shaun, Paddy and Mick?
they're "tree fellers".

Let's hope the council don't put a preservation order on such a
distinguished specimen! They did so on a 60 ft eucalyptus a few yards
from our house. It's going to fall on somebody one day but, as long as
we don't get south easterly gales, it won't be us.

On 12/02/2014 20:15, David Hill wrote:
On 12/02/2014 18:38, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

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!


Let's hope the council don't put a preservation order on such a
distinguished specimen! They did so on a 60 ft eucalyptus a few yards from
our house. It's going to fall on somebody one day but, as long as we don't
get south easterly gales, it won't be us.


I hope they do. Then it'll be their responsibility if it knocks the wall
into the road!

Mike