2 massive trees in a tiny garden

[dojo]

I've got 2 pretty big pines in my garden, within close proximity to the house that I think need to go (potential damage to house, roots structure on house foundation, needles are a hassle, no light in garden and suck all goodness out of soil)

They will need to be felled with ropes and I would say both are in excess of 100feet high and 3foot plus in diameter.

Question 1: what kind of price am I looking at for the removal?

2. Can I offset any of the price by selling the wood etc? I could save it for myself but I simply don't have the room, there is a saw mill up the road.

3. Anything else I need to take in to consideration?

Thanks

[dojo]

Ok - thanks for the replies - I've got someone coming out next week so I'll see what they have to say.

Good to know that the roots go down not across but we still have the issue if they come down they will write off the house plus they make the garden unusable and the needles are a pain in the arse!

I've got someone coming to give me a quote next week and I'll see whats what, I don't think they are protected but I will double check. They are massive - easily 70ft plus - be interested to see how high they are exactly.

I was hoping to either chop up the wood and sell it or sell it to the local saw mill to re coup some of the cost - ideally I'd like to burn it over the coming years but I haven't really got the ability to store it, if they offered me a cheaper price to take the wood away I'd prob have to go with that.

Also great great call about students doing the work - there is a big college locally which run a ot of these kind of courses and just seen they do one in Arboriculture and forestry so maybe worth touching base!

[dojo]

superkartracer said:

This is where people get confused, why would they charge less to remove the wood? , you'll find they want more ££ to remove the wood, not less.

I was under the impression they would sell it and make ££ off it, when speaking to my mum who has trees removed in cornwall she mentioned that she always kept the wood which cost her more but as she was burning it worked out cheaper in the long run - maybe she is mistaken.

If it costs more to remove I'll def be keeping it and selling it as fire wood.

Mr Pointy said:

If you do go down the route of using someone from the local college make sure you see their insurance & it covers any potential damage. If the trees are as close to your house as you say then the potential costs of dropping one of them on your house would be very substantial. It's one of the reasons why professionals charge what they do.

Yes - and for this reason I think the Mrs will put lid on it

[dojo]

SO the house is on a hill and the garden is raised after you walk out of the back door so I don't think soil heave will be an issue?? We have extremely sandy soil.

Please excuse the state of the garden, I haven;t got round to doing any work on it since I destroyed it building the fence and as its just need a total overhaul I've left it

Thoughts (on the trees)??

[dojo]

No next week, what do you think??

[dojo]

First quote is approx £700 per tree and a couple hundred to do both stumps. That includes taking the wood.

[dojo]

Trees are about 75ft each the slightly thicker one with worse access is 750 and the thinner one is 650 stump grinding is 120 and 90 I think and the 3 medium sized oaks round the corner are 180.

I just approxed it for forum ease.

I think it seems fair for the time etc.

He said the difference in price to leave the wood is nominal and he'll sell me a van load of pine for 50£ when ever I want it so for the sake of not having to deal with it it seems easier to have them remove it all
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