Would you climb this?

[Gerbutt]

I told the chap I was going to ask you lot before i decided if i do it or not, glad I have!

 

My options seem to be;

 

Don't bother with it

Move sheds, greenhouse and fell it.

Just fell it anyway and take pic for stunt fell thread......tempting...

Chuck a rope over it and bounce on it and if it does fall then that's just back to option 3 and if it doesn't, climb carefully.

 

I think I'll do the chucking the rope but at the same time I'll stick a ladder under it to prop it up.

 

Do you think charging £150 is ok?

[Mesterh]

I told the chap I was going to ask you lot before i decided if i do it or not, glad I have!

 

My options seem to be;

 

Don't bother with it

Move sheds, greenhouse and fell it.

Just fell it anyway and take pic for stunt fell thread......tempting...

Chuck a rope over it and bounce on it and if it does fall then that's just back to option 3 and if it doesn't, climb carefully.

 

I think I'll do the chucking the rope but at the same time I'll stick a ladder under it to prop it up.

 

Do you think charging £150 is ok?

 

For the customer YEAH!

 

Not for you though!

 

Well not unless your going to gob it at the bottom and leave.

[Mark Bolam]

I told the chap I was going to ask you lot before i decided if i do it or not, glad I have!

 

My options seem to be;

 

Don't bother with it

Move sheds, greenhouse and fell it.

Just fell it anyway and take pic for stunt fell thread......tempting...

Chuck a rope over it and bounce on it and if it does fall then that's just back to option 3 and if it doesn't, climb carefully.

 

I think I'll do the chucking the rope but at the same time I'll stick a ladder under it to prop it up.

 

Do you think charging £1500 is ok?

 

Sounds good to me......

[Pete Hart]

Having read all of the posts so far i was going to say make sure you charge the customer really well!! but £150..........

[Stephen Blair]

if you need to ask then you are not in the position to do the job safely. May seem harsh but all you are going to do is undercut someone who can do the job safely for the right price and you will either be VERY lucky or be on here next week with thread after thread about your injuries and an unhappy customer with damaged property trying to claim you.

[Bob Rolfe]

Definitely no problem if it was going to go it would of gone by now. All the weight is in the head. Just piece bits off it best you can but warn the punter tenant that there is a chance of damage due to the way it's fallen. If possible get a winch on it to pull it back or to sturdy it you will be fine.

[Tree cutter Stu]

to much to go wrong to only charge £150 i would charge alot more

[Sean.S]

Is it actually just leaning on the shed, or is it leaning on the conny(ies?) behind it?

Great advice so far, but if you go the climbing route, find it's solid (which you probably will) and then realise that the reason it's stable is because it's leaning on the trees behind it, you'll have a shock when you take the first cut off the top...

[mine]

Hey bud,

 

Is there something secure that you could use to the right of the tree to set up a skyline over it from the top of the conifer to the left? if so could use that to anchor off and if the tree did move then you would slide down to safety of if you had a cam on it then you would dangle and then just lower down when the dust settles

 

or

 

You could attach your anchor to the top of the tree to the left and use a line to the right on to anything secure-ish to stop you swinging back into the tree I have a T bar of steel bout 5 foot long that with a sledge hammer makes a pretty secure anchor when drove into the ground an few feet at about 45 degrees to the angle of pull, works perfectly.

 

In the end it all depends on how YOU feel with it and the distance down to the greenhouse.

If you were too close to stop contact, just take glass panels out of the green house and man up if you think it'll hold u up lol.

 

Its hard to say without seeing it and giving it a yank to see how strong it is and its 100% subjective.

 

As for the cost I would have probably put a little higher price just for the unusual nature of the job and risk but all dependent on how it ended up been done and how easy it turned out to be, maybe £200-300 if simple.

 

I love jobs like this where its a challenge.

 

Hope this near essay proves helpful for this or the future

 

Sam.

[Gerbutt]

A bit under priced then I take it, don't normally do any pricing so not got a clue what to charge.

 

I have been thinking that Stevie, but at the same time I could get one of the company's in I do a bit of work for, but nothing needs taking away, it's just getting it down. They are either going to just fell it or test and climb and I can do both of them. Totally skint too so the money's needed big time.

 

I'm not mega silly though, I'll go and have another really good look on Friday morning when I'm ment to doing it and if I'm still unsure, I'll get someone else to have a look and do it.