Anyone got any ideas on cost of removing three largish sycamore trees, just ballpark figure really.

no idea but I’d check with your council if there’s any sort of preservation order them as large trees often need permission to remove.

Ballpark? Between £150 and £5000.

Diameter? Height? Proximity to damageable items? Access to tree? Ability to get the rubbish to the roadside?

Pics?

Checking but according to developers there is no preservation order.

Oooh building site? Room to drop them in one? Oh I miss those kinda jobs

All about two storeys, between 10 and 30 feet from house, diameter well now you’re just getting personal. Also I don’t know.
Access not great, short walk to road.

It cost me £700 to have a large (50-60 year old) Sycamore removed last year. The year before it cost almost £1,000 to drop a whopping great Horse Chestnut, but that was a complicated job about 15 feet from the house. (Both trees were diseased and on their way out anyway, by the way, I wouldn’t have got rid otherwise. I love trees.)

Shop around by all means to get decent quotes, but make sure you get a proper arborist to do it. If you’re considering cutting corners because of the cost, watch these: http://www.urlesque.com/2010/01/13/tree-removal-fails/

Actually, watch ’em anyway, they’re quite entertaining…

About 20′ each then? Gutter height rather than apex of roof? Say less than a foot in diameter at waist height? One main straight trunk most of the way up? Nothing underneath them? (Greenhouses etc?)

Probably a day / day and a half for a team of three. Would cost about £300/£500 round these southern parts. Bearing in mind thats a wildly variable cost, and based on my idea of a perfect tree that can be rained down with groundies that can clear it as fast as I could cut it.

Mind you I’ve been desk based for over a year now, so may just be dreaming wildy 😉

Good god yeah, please don’t get your mobile ‘tree lopper’ to do it. Even if it all comes down safely, some poor sod will end up with all the rubbish dumped across a gateway.

Oops double…

Having another look on Saturday and know the developers have already removed a tree that was too close to some houses, not sure why they haven’t moved these ones though.
Do CRC do chainsaws?

If you’re anywhere near Preston I’ll give you a quote. Or email some pics. Don’t forget to allow £100 or so for stumpgrinding.

Cheers for that treefeller but over London way so prob not quite close enough…
In discussions to see if it’ll get done for us but just thought I’d see how much it could potentially be.

according to developers there is no preservation order.

Don’t take their word for it, maximum possible fine is £20,000 per tree and get you a criminal record. There is probably a reason they haven’t taken them down.

The council are the people to ask, some have tree preservation order information on their web sites, otherwise its usually a phone call. You can also get into trouble for felling trees in conservation areas.

Love a bit of chainsaw action, never ceases to amaze me how stupid people can be @mintimperial.

probably not that old at 2 storeys, they grow sodding quick so doubt any TPO’s on them, but free to check with council.

damion has covered most of it, all down to tree and location. May be possible to dismantle with a pole saw? But hard to say without seeing it – that would avoid climbing time and cost.
We put climbing jobs out to tender as we are more forestry focussed. We like our tree surgeons to understand trees and not to be all flash kit – has served us well for weeding out butchers. And obviously, recommendation.

It will coppice up, so will probably want to chemical treat it, either spray regrowth or glyphosate ‘cough’ engine oil ‘cough’ mix on the grooved/welled stump. They don’t take too long to rot out, 5 years patience and you should be able to crumble it away.

In that link the muppet who had the tree land on his foot I actually LOL 😆

Sycamores are the ‘vermin’ of the tree world. I very much doubt that there would be a preservation order on them. They grow quickly, often at the expense of other indigeneous species. Oh, and did I mention the sap from the leaves?

Love trees, not mad on sycamores.

Just to repeat what others have said about checking for tree preservation orders. There are two types – one for individual trees and others that cover an area. I know because we have both covering the trees in our garden. Trying to get rid of three – looking at about £1000 – plus costs for the structural engineers report to provide justification for cutting one of them down.

Also check that they are on your land, according to the deeds for the house. Two of ‘our’ trees actually belong to neighbours but are a real pain to us!

Developers tend to cut down trees when they can, so just check with the council!

>Checking but according to developers there is no preservation order.

I think even if there’s no preservation order that may still come under something like ‘civil amenity’. There’s various trees near us that I’m sure haven’t got preservation orders on them but have a notice of work attached during crown lifting/pruning. Some tossy developers also felled a bunch bordering soome of the houses in our close before they were stopped – pretty sure they needed permission to remove them.