What would you charge?

[Vespasian]

9 minutes ago, AWarb00 said:

Go and have a look at your local hire shop rates, you'll get a shock

Plus you're taking the piss if you think a decent experienced fully qualified climber is worth £200 a day to hire in

OK how much is a decent qualified arborist to hire, only it seems to be the going rate going off a few posts on here...  

[Conor Wright]

Heard on another thread you cant afford a decent arborists tshirt so I wouldn't worry about the cost of hiring a whole arborist, what with all his daft ppe and expensive specialist equipment that he doesn't need to cut trees you say you can do yourself.
Goodbye now anonymous troll.

[AWarb00]

Vespian,

Can I kindly ask you refrain from posting on this thread as you literally have no clue what so ever what you're talking about and are only ruining what is a constructive and useful thread.

I know it's your trade mark to be a dick but please stop ruining other peoples threads.

[AWarb00]

I'd like to thank everyone that has replied with Thier view points on pricing and how they'd tackle the job, it's been interesting and helpful.[emoji106]

[Mark J]

When I come across trees like this, I get try to get the best climber for the job.

That's usually not me, I could do it but it would take too long. 
Get a speedy climber in and and a competent groundie on the ropes. The rest is dealt with by either manpower or a misrerable (because he no longer smokes 60 a day) Northumbrian in a JCB.
I'd be inclined to add a fair bit of 'just in case money onto the job', ontop of top of your usual calculated fees. If you don't need it then it's a bonus.

 

[stihlmadasever]

Reading through this thread,made me laugh,scratch my head,ponder murder and suicide.If some of the quotes on here are even nearly right ive cost myself a fuckin fortune under quoting!

Its difficult even near impossible to price a job on pictures alone.

Even getting nose to tree doesnt always give you 100% perspective on costing a job.Ive quoted jobs,got the job,went onsite,got up the tree and shat it cause ive realised its not as straight forward as i thought.

You can or i can look at a tree and see how i would dismantle it,where to rig off,where the best anchor points are to gain access to as much as the tree as possible.

Cut and chuck or rig it but you must chose whats safest,quickest and more ergonomic.

Personally if its a big technical tree i'll ground and get a better climber in.

I know my limits and at 47 im past my best.

I wouldnt price that cause im not in your part if the world so prices are different for me and you.

I will say this,more hands arent always better.Ive never had more than 2 guys on the deck,even on big jobs.

Good teams dont need more hands just be organised and the job will get done.

Vesp....really???

[trigger_andy]

10 hours ago, bigtreedon said:

I've enjoyed reading this everyone's different ways of tackling tree removals there is definitely pros and cons for cutting and chucking on some trees I personally tend to do it on smaller trees the time and extra wear on your body doing it bigger trees in my humble opinion is often not worth large soft woods with not many targets are different any time hydraulics can be used in any way that's the way to go even if it's only a part of the crown or heavy wood if u have it at your disposal use it if you have a good team and rope man and the tree is suitable lower big as you can many hands on the floor can process a limb allot faster than two hands In the tree every tree is different every sight is different so one formula to removal is not gunner be effective use what u have to its potential if its men get them working if its machines get it placed in the right position to be the most effective dont waste what u have buy not planning your sight correctly smart not hard I spend nearly all my time doing take downs or felling trees and it amazes me still when I go to sights how inefficient some companies teams are at it obsessed over chogging wood down when it could be lowered in big pieces or felled that's just one example!

Not a single full stop. Impressive.  

[Vespasian]

1 hour ago, AWarb00 said:

Vespian,

Can I kindly ask you refrain from posting on this thread as you literally have no clue what so ever what you're talking about and are only ruining what is a constructive and useful thread.

I know it's your trade mark to be a dick but please stop ruining other peoples threads.
 

 

I have no clue?..  Thats rich coming from someone who can't even price a tree job up without begging for advice on a forum..   

 

If you'd the brains you would of asked you're boss for his advice..   why didn't you?..

[David Cropper]

3 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

 

I have no clue?..  Thats rich coming from someone who can't even price a tree job up without begging for advice on a forum..   

 

If you'd the brains you would of asked you're boss for his advice..   why didn't you?..

You're not doing yourself any favours, mate. Rap it in while you can now. You're looking like a prat.

[Mick Dempsey]

On jobs like this I have found that price isn’t the be all and end all of getting the job.

 

To a layman it looks pretty intimidating, there’s a lot that can go very badly wrong if they hire a chancer.

 

Running through the job with the client, explaining how you will avoid damaging the targets etc. can help secure the job, even at a higher price.