D-Day Pricing! I'll fight them on these beeches, victory at £100?! Kiss mine...

[Mesterh]

These beech have all been FELLED. None were anywhere near 100ft tall. Perhaps 1 or 2 NEEDED to be cut down.

The tree that crushed the cars was absolutely rotten through with Ganoderma add/app and honey fungus. At 5m the stem rot was virtually complete. Root plate and buttress were powder and cornflakes.

No inspection was carried out on the trees hence the accident.

Perhaps if theyd taken me up on my offer last year they could be suing me rather than being sued themselves .....ho hum ; )

BTW they still missed the rotten Ustulina'd tree that I spotted from 50 yds away so perhaps there will be another story next year.

 

Had they all been shifted as well or just on the deck?

 

Pity they all had to go if they were still in decent nick as a knee jerk reaction to bad management:thumbdown:

[Lee Winger]

They still wern't £100 a pop trees.....................

[Peter Marsh]

Is the £100 per tree from the local farmer!. Fairly typical, will Probably not be fully insured, not have the right training or competency and ask for a risk assessment and method statement, won't have a clue what you are talking about.

[High Scale]

I used to work for a big firm that would buy work just to keep the money rolling.

 

What fun.

[Bundle 2]

I used to work for a big firm that would buy work just to keep the money rolling.

 

What fun.

 

 

Did they also put trees under the saw needlessly....to keep the money rolling?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Is the £100 per tree from the local farmer!. Fairly typical, will Probably not be fully insured, not have the right training or competency and ask for a risk assessment and method statement, won't have a clue what you are talking about.

 

Bingo!

[skyhuck]

We don't know the whole story.

 

Many years ago I used to climb for a timber merchant, I dismantled a large beech next to a house for him.

 

He had won the job with a price of £200.

 

I told him he was mad, he just gave me a rye smile.

 

After I had stripped it to a pole, he felled it though a gap between two trees, cut it into lengths and loaded it onto his timber trailer.

 

He shot of down the road to a saw mill and was back within the hour, with a cheque for £250.

 

So he got £450 for the tree.

[jojam]

We don't know the whole story.

 

Many years ago I used to climb for a timber merchant, I dismantled a large beech next to a house for him.

 

He had won the job with a price of £200.

 

I told him he was mad, he just gave me a rye smile.

 

After I had stripped it to a pole, he felled it though a gap between two trees, cut it into lengths and loaded it onto his timber trailer.

 

He shot of down the road to a saw mill and was back within the hour, with a cheque for £250.

 

So he got £450 for the tree.

 

And he probably got something for the firewood too.

[Dean Lofthouse]

But he could have quoted £450 for the job and got a £250 bonus...

 

What if the saw mill rejected his timber as rubbish, shook or full of metal

[jojam]

But he could have quoted £450 for the job and got a £250 bonus...

 

What if the saw mill rejected his timber as rubbish, shook or full of metal

 

The chance you take.We used to get a good bonus with an elm but the price has gone through the floor and they've become really fussy.