Need help putting in a quote!!!!!!!

[treedweller]

I'm hoping to be getting a 16m mewp on the job and 8" timberwolf as access isn't a worry but I ran the numbers and I was looking at around £2100 but after a few people saying £2500 I think iv made my mind up!! Cheers guys its good to be able to draw on others experience especially when pricing as I sometimes find that I'm more of a busy fool under pricing jobs. Especially with elderly bodies I go all soft and charge 200 quid to take out 40ft pops that have been pollarded once about twenty five year since and are hidden behind a conifer hedge at the bottom of the garden with no access. my mate loved me for that one!!! Under charging is my worst bad hqbbit by far LOL

[Mark Bolam]

I'd get up inside it and have a look at what it's like at the cutting height before giving a price. So easy to drop a bollock on connies that are waaaayyyyyy more dense than they look from the deck.

 

Good luck with it mate, get pics if you get it.

 

We can all wallow in your misery then!

[treedweller]

Right been and had a look and its leylandii nowhere near as tall as I was told (funny how often 25ft is nearer 17-18) its single planted and has been topped before at around 12ft. There's access to the front 100ft but not down the side so a mewp isn't worth the hire cost.

The side is actually longer than 100ft nearer 150ft. I'm thinking ladders with a plank tied to the top to be honest lol theirs not as much to come off as I imagined tbh. They want it clipped one side as well. I quoted £2200 as I think a week will be dragging it out. Wait and see if they ok it now. If I get it ill take pics for you all to laugh at lol

[skyhuck]

is the hedge only one tree thick? you will probably need a access platform to work from, if i was on piece work i'd do it in a day off a platform,( my backround is commercial forestry), but this is a different ball game where i would have to slow myself down to justify my £1800 estimate, price it with the hired platform in mind.

 

£300 for platform £1500 profit over 3 days, can't be bad:laugh1:

 

Why do you have to justify your price???

 

If your that good why not just make more money or make the same money working less days:thumbup:

 

I priced a site clearance the other day, I thought it would take us four or five days, we did it in two, I was very pleased and felt no need to justify it.