Price and method to remove this large Oak

[tree-fancier123]

good thread, interesting range of prices, what sort of tonnage of firewood will there be if none milled? My guess 15 ton.

[Jammydogg]

Looks a beaut of a tree to get into, I'd allow couple of nice steady paced days on a tree that big, all this talk of mewps...where's the fun in that?

[mendiplogs]

Make sure he brings his smart car along otherwise you might not get all the wood in.

 

HI MATE now my mate JON P UNDER CUT ME IVE NOT GOT THE JOB SOMEONE GONE DONE FOR £500 :lol:THANKS JON

[MattyF]

I'd stunt fell it through the gap and be away in an hour with a tractor load of timber and tranny of chip ... Seriously it looks a different tree from every photo and I would never quote by photos so it's pointless entering this discussion really.

[Jammydogg]

I'd stunt fell it through the gap and be away in an hour with a tractor load of timber and tranny of chip ... Seriously it looks a different tree from every photo and I would never quote by photos so it's pointless entering this discussion really.

 

 

Stunt fell 😂😂😂😂 got me cracking up

[Joe Newton]

I'd stunt fell it through the gap and be away in an hour with a tractor load of timber and tranny of chip ... Seriously it looks a different tree from every photo and I would never quote by photos so it's pointless entering this discussion really.

 

 

Aww c'mon Matty, enter into the spirit!

 

Gypsy stick from the a-frames? Burn pile in the gring garden? Or might with 12" chipper and HiAb?

[MattyF]

Aww c'mon Matty, enter into the spirit!

 

Gypsy stick from the a-frames? Burn pile in the gring garden? Or might with 12" chipper and HiAb?

 

 

Ok joe , I'd floss and flo that mofo and have her down by 1 judging from the last pic .... From the first pic you would possibly stepping off your spikes from the stem in agony after disking down with the 88 at around 5pm leaving an almighty pile of shite to clear up over the next week.... It does look a day for three people's is my final answer but I'd price it at a day and a half just incase the wind makes rigging and clearing up a nightmare.

[Mark Bolam]

This was exactly my thinking, and I'll definitely be giving you a call if I get it.

I would love to see someone get this done by 2PM as someone suggested as I'm allowing most of a day to get the crown down and 1 load of chip and 2nd day to take the stem down and remove + the logs from the crown away. GregM, where do you operate to get undercut on a job like this for that money ?

 

That's how I see it Billy, 3 men on day 1 and 2 of us on day 2, and we are a Tranny and TW outfit.

I'd get the butt Hiab'd out if poss, either to the mill or firewood, but that wouldn't lower my price.

3' rings into 1/8ths? Never.

12" rings, bore cut, splitting wedge and they're in half with no noodles.

 

Just priced a similar one (all handball through a garden gate) at £1100 and didn't get it because 'they didn't want to spend that much'.

I don't give a toss, I think I was £200 light on that anyway.

 

Don't get me wrong, that's a fair sized tree, but I could see a good team with some bigger kit (no cranes or MEWPS) having a good day and being away to enjoy a cider in a beer garden while shades were still necessary.

 

 

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[john p]

TBH the glorys gone from big trees for me, if I haven't done one for a while it seems quite exciting for the first half hour, but once I start chogging with a big saw,mouth and trousers full of saw dust, aching knees and getting irritated with the people on the ground the novelty soon wears off! Can make the same money poncing about with the little stuff IME

[john p]

That said I still enjoy a big reduction, just not the removals