[Closed] Tree surgeons!

Yep,

That's a tree all right.

Not just a tree but quite a nice one too

Well spotted

Edit for your edit. Can’t help with price but you’re right, it’ll be a bit more work for the tree surgeons to log it up, much easier to bang it through the chipper.

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Well spotted

I'd say it's more mottled than spotted.

You should see the copper birch around the other side when it's in full leaf, that's a nice tree!

There also used to be an enormous Scots pine, tallest tree in the area but the 1987 storm took it. Nearly took half the house with it too.

What sort of region should he be expecting the quotes to be in?

Near the neighbouring wall, anywhere else its the wrong tree.

It may be a bit more work than "hoofing it into a shredder", but the tree surgeons also don't have to dispose of it...

Get two or three quotes. But last time I had a tree surgeon in we pruned 3 big yew trees, and took down one dead 50ft cherry. That was in 2017, and cost £395. I disposed of everything.

Between Oxford and Reading.

ETA - sorry, I realise this is a bit sensible compared with the others!

Why does it need a good pruning? Who has decided that?

Why does it need a good pruning? Who has decided that?

Possibly the folk worried about it coming down, those boughs will be over a ton, that's a helluva big sail with no other trees around to protect it from high winds.

Wont be cheap, there's a lot of ropework gonna be needed there, to do it safely.

It really depends on how much of a prune you want done. Looks to be over road,pavement and driveways not a simple job. For the whole job I would be looking around £250 but that’s totally dependent on the surrounding area and safe places to drop it.

Yeah, it's already had some deadfall coming off it and it's right over the neighbour's Porsche and other expensive cars.

Thought it would be more like £500 to £1k to be honest given the size of it

I'd say between £500-700 if recent work I had is any guide (Cheshire).
I had several smaller but not inconsiderate trees removed or pollarded and best quote was £500 plus £100 to remove two stumps at a later date. They quoted on time rather than size of the tree. One bloke up the tree and two carrying cuts to shredder. They might add on a few quid to chop it into firewood but can't see it being exorbitant.

I’d agree with up to a grand, with the higher figure including removal of the wood. We had 6 similar sized trees (some slightly larger) down year before last and that was £4K from recollection (we kept the wood)...

That's not a big tree, any deadwood falling off it will be small(er) bits.
no idea on pricing, when i was a climber i let the boss do the pricing and i concentrated on doing a good job up the tree.

DON'T get it lopped and topped, anyone who suggests that should have their quote ripped up. The cuts tend to be crap and are more likely to introduce rot into the stem, besides it look f***ing ugly and ruins the aestehtics of a nice tree.

Getting the deadwood cleared would be a good way to mitigate the falling wood.

A crown thin woud open up the canopy and let light through,

A crown reduction would reduce the size,

i'm sure the guidance hasn't changed in a decade since i weilded a saw in anger but the guidance was a reduction or thin shouldnt take off any more than a third to limit the stress placed onto the tree. Any reduction / thin will be a temporary measure and the tree will put on some rapid growth to regain its energy sources.

I'd suggest removing the deadwood and a crown lift by removing the limbs over the car port on the right of the image and path.
I'd also say that the rigging for that is pretty simple, no phone cables or greenhouses to avoid.

I'm having a similar sized Ash pruned today. Aim is a bit less than a third off to stop the neighbours worrying it'll fall on them. £300, but in East mids and no Porsches, not even old boxsters, on my road I'm afraid.

Useful info, thanks all