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The price depends on your location and the type and health of trees
involved. Get prices from a bunch of tree guys. The small family-owned
companies are going to be better priced on jobs like this than the bigger
companies. In my opinion stay away from the national companies like Davie
Tree and Asplundh who charge probably 4x as much on any given job as anybody
else. When you get a price you like, give the guy the work. Just make sure
they are insured.

I see you're in the DC area.... I recently had some tree work done at a very
reasonable price in Montgomery county. If you're up my way, let me know and
I'll give you the guy's name.

Katie
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pat <bahn@tgv-rockets.com> wrote in message
news:wqUk6.8123$lx.3220839@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net...
> I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut out
> some busted/dead limbs and
> cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
> times the amount, but is this a fair price?
> It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
> tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
> make them look better.
>
>
> pat
>
>

I am not in the tree trimming business but If the job takes him 2 hours then I
would
expect to pay at least that amount...

Just my opinion...  If I had to drive across town and spend 2 hours on a job
site and had to clean up... 300 bucks would be my minimum...

Bob Griffiths


pat wrote:

> I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut out
> some busted/dead limbs and
> cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
> times the amount, but is this a fair price?
> It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
> tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
> make them look better.
>
> pat

v <velnon@banet.net> wrote in message
news:3a946093.28945850@news1.banet.net...
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:12:28 GMT, "pat" <bahn@tgv-rockets.com> wrote:
>
> >I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut
out
> >some busted/dead limbs and
> >cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
> >times the amount, but is this a fair price?
> >It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
> >tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
> >make them look better.
> >
> 1) Can't tell from here about the price.  You need to get a few more
> estimates locally to see how they compare.  Now, if the bid was
> $298,000 than I COULD say it's too much, and if it was $1.98 too
> little.  But a few hundred?  Can't tell.
>
> 2)  So "it  can't be that tough a job" to justify $300, but it IS so
> tough a job that you wouldn't do it for $3,000?  WHO THE HELL DO YOU
> THINK YOU ARE PRINCESS????  Why is it that people who can't or won't
> do some physical work look down upon those who can?  I have 4 (count
> 'em, four) university degrees and never had that attitude.  The work
> is worth what people will do it for, and if you think that's too much,
> learn to DIY, smarty.

No, I think that I have a damaged Middle Ear, which affects my
balance. Carpentry, plumbing, electrical wiring, I can do.
The ladder thing, I just don't do.

My Grandmother won't do this work either, that doesn't make her a
princess.

tree trimming around here (wisconsin) is not cheap...........but me climb a
tree with a chain saw?????????  i think not!

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"pat" <bahn@tgv-rockets.com> wrote in message
news:wqUk6.8123$lx.3220839@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net...
> I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut out
> some busted/dead limbs and
> cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
> times the amount, but is this a fair price?
> It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
> tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
> make them look better.
>
>
> pat
>
>

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:12:28 GMT, "pat" <bahn@tgv-rockets.com> wrote:

>I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut out
>some busted/dead limbs and
>cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
>times the amount, but is this a fair price?
>It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
>tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
>make them look better.
>
1) Can't tell from here about the price.  You need to get a few more
estimates locally to see how they compare.  Now, if the bid was
$298,000 than I COULD say it's too much, and if it was $1.98 too
little.  But a few hundred?  Can't tell.

2)  So "it  can't be that tough a job" to justify $300, but it IS so
tough a job that you wouldn't do it for $3,000?  WHO THE HELL DO YOU
THINK YOU ARE PRINCESS????  Why is it that people who can't or won't
do some physical work look down upon those who can?  I have 4 (count
'em, four) university degrees and never had that attitude.  The work
is worth what people will do it for, and if you think that's too much,
learn to DIY, smarty. 

3)  On a more objective note, the tree guy should have: a truck.
equipment.  time to haul to a legal dump after finishing at the
property.  office expense.  insurance expense.  reserve expense for
mishaps on the job.  hazard pay for the chance he takes climbing.
need to make enough money on jobs he does not get, to make up for time
spent giving free estimates on jobs he doesn't get.  All that stuff
has to be paid for by what he charges for his jobs.  That's what
"overhead" is.  How much does your boss charge customers for your
time?  Generally a lot more than your hourly pay.  Or do you work for
the government and have no clue?  You can't fairly say "that kind of
work should only get $15/hr and he was only here 2 hours so it should
be $30".

-v.

Dangerous work.
Fair Price.

pat wrote:
> 
> I had a guy quote me $300 to climb two trees in my front yard, and cut out
> some busted/dead limbs and
> cut up the wood and take it away. Now granted, I won't climb that for ten
> times the amount, but is this a fair price?
> It can't be that tough of a job. He also wants $200 to trim some 18 foot
> tall barrier trees (Evergreens) and
> make them look better.
> 
> pat

When we needed 3 trees removed, we got about 5 estimates.  They ranged
from $300 to $1200 for exactly the same work.  Try to get a couple more
estimates--you don't need to be home for someone to come eyeball your
trees and give you an estimate.

In article <3A949485.7CD3@comingup.rosesnet>, head~trip@comingup.rosesnet wrote:
>When we needed 3 trees removed, we got about 5 estimates.  They ranged
>from $300 to $1200 for exactly the same work.  Try to get a couple more
>estimates--you don't need to be home for someone to come eyeball your
>trees and give you an estimate.

Yes, get multiple estimates. And before you choose the lowest,
make sure it's clear to him precisely what is to be done, such
as the extent of the clean-up, etc.

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