Seems a bit excessive to me, but my Google search indicates this is about what tree removalists expect to be paid.

Doesn't include grinding the stump out.

Just cutting the tree to ground level and removing the waste.

It's about 20 meters tall and only a foot wide.

If you own the equipment needed, it's money for jam if you're in the industry.

You know you're paying a ridiculous price, but they know they've got you over a barrel because you don't own the equipment required to do the job.

This is what 'de-regulation' means for the paying-public. They can pilfer your bank account with impunity.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 7^th, 2016 at 9:04am:


I asked the fellow if he had one of those robots that crawl up the trunk of the tree while lopping off the branches - and he said yes.

But being an Arab, I'm not too sure I can believe anything he says.

Not much danger if he has one of those.

Being able to hire dinki di Australians for anything nowadays is becoming increasingly difficult.

I always cringe when I see them using their foot to push a branch into the woodchipper.

We have recently had a huge cypris/pine type tree cut down, the quotes were between $1100 - $1900.

Just try to get different quotes.
And yes, pulverising the stump was extra, but we left it as is, cut down to a bout 18 inches high (can be used as a table). And they take it away also, included in the price. Unless you wish to have the wood and keep it for firewood, then you have to chop it all up for your own use.

There's a lot of training, fitness and stamina required to climb a tree and cut down the various branches starting from the top, with lots of security ropes, chainsaw, safety equipement worn etc.

It is very interesting to watch the way they do it. It isn't something done quickly either, it is bit by bit all the way down, with the swing of the branches cut with ropes being pulled by others on the ground, knowing how to.

freediver wrote on Jan 7^th, 2016 at 9:31am:


And vice versa.

I'm glad you think that way Herbert.
I've worked at heights and with weights at times and they are both dangerous.

people that have never done either often do not take that into consideration.

Good luck with it.
Good to get it cut down before it falls down.

a bottle of round up and 6 months will fix the problem for you for $20 

Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 7^th, 2016 at 11:05am:


It's not really now is it, but still bigger than I was thinking.

If it is real big the type of pine would make a huge difference, some have really hard wood as well.