How much does it cost to plant larger diameter trees?

[arb culture]

Just wondered if there's anyone on here who's got experience of planting trees approx 25cm to 35cm diameter and how much it costs.

[ferdinand2000]

I'm not sure what scale (quantity) you are looking at, and if you want purchase, planting or maintenance costs, but I got as far as deciding it was too expensive for me.

 

This place:

Naturefirst says about 1k for planting all-in a 30cm *girth* tree (half of cost is plant hire) or £3.5k for 10. Here the quantity saving is on the service not the tree.

 

It's a useful web page, laying out their detailed costs and suggesting a 90%+ success rate.

 

I love that they compare size for the layman to "golf ball", "tennis ball", "football".

Tree Size Guide - Trees graded by the girth

 

For something a foot in dameter? Better to be selling them than buying them, methinks.

 

Ferdinand.

[arb culture]

I'm not sure what scale (quantity) you are looking at, and if you want purchase, planting or maintenance costs, but I got as far as deciding it was too expensive for me.

 

This place:

Naturefirst says about 1k for planting all-in a 30cm *girth* tree (half of cost is plant hire) or £3.5k for 10. Here the quantity saving is on the service not the tree.

 

It's a useful web page, laying out their detailed costs and suggesting a 90%+ success rate.

 

I love that they compare size for the layman to "golf ball", "tennis ball", "football".

Tree Size Guide - Trees graded by the girth

 

For something a foot in dameter? Better to be selling them than buying them, methinks.

 

Ferdinand.

 

Thanks Ferdinand,

 

I'm looking for one or two trees in West Yorkshire. Cost shouldn't be too much of an issues unless it's silly money.

 

It's for a planning condition, so the client is a bit desperate.

 

I'm just trying to work out whether it's feasible to plant these trees, or whether to forget the whole scheme and start again.

 

I have a suspicion that there are hidden costs in these things, so I was wondering if anyone had direct experience.

[josharb87]

theres a member on here, http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members/weliketomove-it-move-it.html seems to do this kinda stuff

[ferdinand2000]

If you PM me the planning app number and *exact* wording of the condition, I'll have a quick look.

 

F

[arb culture]

Thanks everyone.

 

Josharb, I've asked the link for a rough price.

 

Ferdinand, it hasn't actually got that far yet - still at negotiation stage - but thanks for the offer.

[Giles Hill]

Perhaps the main thing to consider is the after-care, if it's not sufficient then the trees probably won't survive and if it is sufficient it will probably end up costing a fair bit more than the supply & planting.

[Gareth Dalzell]

Just wondered if there's anyone on here who's got experience of planting trees approx 25cm to 35cm diameter and how much it costs.

 

If its just the planting cost you mean and not the cost of the tree

assuming it's two tree's that are delivered to the site by the nursery as otherwise they're going to need a 25ft trailer to transport them.

Underground guy using posts wire and c/w irrigation loop. Again assuming the access is good, ground conditions average, not being planted on rock.

 

Two trees planted including labour, underground guy, spoil left on site, irrigation loop, delivered to site by supplier, access good for machinery etc. The going rate would be around £150-200 each for two trees. Cheaper if you're planting more - We would expect a two main team with a mini-digger to plant 4-6 trees a day depending on the aforementioned ( and a load of other variables)

 

Remember this tree root balled is too heavy to lift with sling around its stem and will need root chains to lift if by the root ball

[Big Joe]

2 trees, Ash 50-60 £950, Birch slightly smaller same, another £2k to plant (including delivery - expensive). Not convinced it's worth it - time will tell. Put up a fence and plant whips, or seek a different development site where planning conditions aren't so dumb?

[ferdinand2000]

Some LAs are going slightly bonkers with planning conditions, and the client probably has to supply a 5 year maintenance agreement too.

 

See this one for Reading, on a site for about 15 houses.

 

http://www.reading.gov.uk/documents/committee_services/planning_applications_committee/070404/item15cockneyhillpacapril07.pdf

 

"The approved landscape scheme included 23 semi-mature trees (40-50cm

girth, 8-10m high) to compensate for the trees removed prior to the submission of a planning application."

 

The total tree cost was something like 50k, though that included about 100m of 'instant wildlife hedge', and some of the "semi-mature trees" were slightly too small.

 

I think it's quite sad (and funny) - trees being taken out because they are 35-40cm rather than 40-50cm.

 

F