Need a tree cut down, how much will it cost?

[planechocolate]

Hi, I have a tree surgeon coming round tomorrow to give me a quote to take down a diseased tree, it is about 25 feet high and 18 inches across at the base.
I've a friend with a chainsaw so that is another option, but then we have the issue of getting rid of the fallen tree afterwards.

Does anyone have any ideas roughly how much a reputable tree surgeon is likely to charge for a small tree? We are rural home counties.

We paid £180 for a similar size eucalyptus. Offer the logs to someone with a wood burner, they’ll probably collect them.

My husband says £250 including disposal & tidy up. Assumes that access is easy....

Thanks, that give me a reasonable ball park figure.

We had similar, but it was located on a bank--it was £400 from our usual tree surgeon: more than I'd hoped, tbh, but better than the alternative (falling on the oil tank). The man we use has always been reasonable and does a good job, so I feel it was fair, even if I didn't really want to pay out for it

(Also rural home counties, including sawing up logs and tidying up, but not including moving those logs to where we keep the wood, which is a circuitous route from the bottom of the bank, and about 300 feet as a result, with a significant change of level)

This one is in an awkward position too - in a corner sandwiched between a garage and a fence, and there's a shed quite near as well, so they can't just fell the thing, it will have to be done piecemeal.

Out of interest, how much did they come back with to do it, OP?

DH has got the quote in his pocket and he isn't here, but from memory it was about £225 inc vat.

I'd love to know what kind of trees these were.
I'm currently looking at 3 quotes of between 1400 and 2100 plus VAST for an Ash tree with 18inch diameter trunk, including ropes etc and stump grinding 10 days after felling.

@Andtheresaw

We paid £600 for an ash about 18” in diameter and nearly the height of the house, plus a smaller whitebeam. That included stump grinding.

We kept the wood from the trunks but they took away the branches.

So when trees are cut, do they just going the stump to prevent regrow the and not actually dig out?

(sorry, just grind the stump)