[Closed] Any Tree Surgeons around?

Sounds top end of about right.

Where are you? Do you want the logs they cut?

That seems like a heck of a lot of money. A skip would be about half that. would it go in a big skip?

Cheshire and no - they have to take away the waste / logs etc

Hadn't thought about the chainsaw/skip route. Can Joe Public access the chemicals to treat the stumps though?

Get one of these, a ladder and cut it yourself.

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Hello,

Possibly, that money would involve about 2/3rds of a days work around here. How wide are they? Have they been topped out before? 

How far are the conifers from the nearest road access? Any tight turns / gateways between the trees and the access point? Anything underneath / around them that make get damaged?

Damion

Damion - one has been topped previously, the other (smaller one) not. Tbh I'd be fairly comfortable chopping the smaller one down myself as its away from the house. The larger one is close to the house and a bit on the big side for me to handle. The nearest road is just the other side of the house and waste would either be lifted over a fence or around the side passage of the house and through a standard garden gate.

As far as anyone can price something blindly, that doesn't sound unreasonable.

Sure, the little one sounds like a straight drop, but the other sounds like a dismantle, but everything from both will need to be cut to fit through the gate / down the side passage. It all takes time.

Careful with the skip idea, some places [b]can[/b] be a bit funny about green waste, just make sure they're aware before hiring.

There'll be no need to treat the stump, unless they're yew I seriously doubt they'll grow again, and I doubt there is a lot on the quote for the treatment to make much difference either way.

Think I paid about £150 for a few (3 or 4) leylandi to be cut and removed. I'd considered doing it myself but after watching the 'professionals' do the work I realised it wasn't worth getting scratched to bits and risking my limbs with a chainsaw for - money well spent.

Re: 'treating the stumps' - the stumps were ground out so no treatment needed.

Chemicals do not work at all on stumps and conifer stumps wont regrow. (i was an arborist for 5 yrs). Sounds a bit steep but if its cheshire! Sounds like about 2.5 hrs work at most, depends on the size of the chipper!!!

Can't you just cut them down with a bow saw (to avoid chain saw injuries)? If one's near the house get a ladder and cut it down in 3ft sections? 15ft isn't very high...

Total cost of about 8 quid assuming you have a ladder...

>Chemicals do not work at all on stumps

Had some bloke quote for some tree (cypress/leylandii) removal a few years ago, and when I heard the 'they'll soon rot' rubbish I thought I'd go for someone that knew the right answers - eventually got sorted 'cos next door had a few removed, and their guy had a stump grinder. I think it was about 3 or 4 years ago, and about 600 quid for 4 including stump grinding - they were all pretty bloomin big both height and diameter. (That's N Surrey, in case anyone wants the guy's name).

We had a 20 odd foot Silver birch taken down and away in about an hour and a half, cost was £220.

Some were asking £320?

It sound expensive to me, i'd do the small one myself,and get the cheapest quote possible on the other one.

I cut down 10 twenty foot tall Leylandii connifers when i moved into my house.

They were planted 25 feet from my back door, but on a bank 6 feet above the lowest part the garden(at the patio door). They shut out a lot of light, made the garden seem small and claustraphobic. They had been left to grow unchecked, but numpty had cut all the lower branches off, so I couldn't even make a hedge out of them.

Leylandii are just weeds and should be banned due to their high growth rate and invasive roots. People put them in as a quick solution, not realising how they take huge amounts of work to maintain when they get big (which they do very quickly). Moreover, unclipped, they just look plain ugly!

Using a ladder, I first stripped all the branches, then topped them, then cut 2ft sections off leaving about 7ft sticking out of the ground.

I dug round the roots with a mattock and used an axe to chop out the roots, then levered the trunks over to get the remaining stumps out.

I took the whole lot to the tip in several trips in the back of my old company car.

The things you do when you are young and skint!

There is a good reason to get leylandii as that they're a quick way to get a decent hedge but maintenance is a PITA. The previous owner to me hadn't looked after the hedge so I went along cutting the top 3 feet off which too ages. Some had been left to become trees up to 30 feet high so just chopped those down with a bow saw - really doesn't take long. Once down I chopped up piled up the greenery and put into the garden refuse bin that I pay to have so didn't cost much. Letting the wood dry out to use on the fire in the winter though I believe the wood will spit quite a bit. I did also chope a tree down to the ground and just dug around the stump and then attacked with an axe until what was left was below ground level.

It's all good boy fun!