Price to remove trees

[candle18]

I’m thinking of having trees removed at the bottom of my garden as they’re blocking out too much sun. Have no idea how much it would cost. There are 2 massive ones and 5 or 6 average ones. Is this likely to be really expensive?

Ask a tree surgeon.

Depends on what trees are like & the space you have for felling eg thin tree that can fell in one is cheaper than wide big tree in small garden that need to climb and dismantle bit by bit. Also what access you have and what you want doing with waste makes big difference. Eg Chopping in to logs = extra; grinding out the stump = extra; complex ‘taking debris through small gateway to get to truck’ = extra.

A lot may depend on access. I was quoted the best part of 8K to have 6 large diseased ash trees removed. There's no direct access from a road to the area where the trees are, and there's an overhead phone line further complicating matters.

However, another tree surgeon quoted me around half of that and my neighbour, a farmer, reckons he can get it lower still. We will see!

So, it really is a question of getting quotes and taking it from there.

You need to make sure that the trees don't have a TPO on them before any work is carried out.

I reckon felling those would be quite a lot - we paid around £160 to have one small diseased tree taken down last year, and they left the stump (we asked them to, it's now a seat).

Make sure whoever is doing it also has insurance.

Our neighbours had a dead mature oak tree removed 10 years ago for £550. I think you are probably looking at around £2k for all the trees.

Thanks. Around 2K was what I had in mind and obviously need to get some quotes but just had no idea.

Do it! Our house had 9 awful huge scraggy leylandii at the end of the garden We had them down (and stumps ground) and it was as if the garden had doubled in size, and so much lighter. It was a few hundred quid and totally worth it. Get a couple of quotes from a local tree surgeon.

I think prices will vary according to location (what the local market will bear) as well as access etc. You might consider - if any of them are nice mature trees in a good state and not monstrosities like mine - taking some down and leaving a couple? Tree surgeon could advise. And yes check for TPOs.

You might need permission. Check on your council website using your postcode. We have no specific TPO trees but live in an area where I have to get permission to prune or take down trees, once the trunk reaches a certain girth. Its not a specific conservation area but the trees get particular protection.

Your free surgeon should check if there are tpos or other restrictions. They might also need permits for the road. I’ve had quite a few out and it was the best thing we did. Most recent was £1200 for the following:
Removal of leylandii hedge (v tall and mature but not long stretch maybe 4- 5m) and some other hedging plus stump grinding and clean-up/removal. They also removed some trees in our front garden that were horribly overgrown and just looked rubbish in the space- about 6m worth including a 60ft tree. The work at the back of our garden was much more expensive as there was a lot of lifting and carrying added to labour. It’s impressive when you see them working.

Tree surgeons here charge about 350 -400 a day for two men. It’s not the taking down of the tree that takes the time, it’s the chopping it up and getting rid of it. Root grinding is often done by a different person, it depends if your tree surgeon can do both,

Root grinding is much more expensive, usually double for one person, Ie seven hundred a day, because rhe teeth in the grinder have to go into The earth and if they hit something like metal it costs a fortune to replace the teeth. It also takes ages. They just stand there with the huge machine over it as it does it’s work.

I’d say if you want it all taken away, roots ground up etc, then you would be looking at closer to four k.

We had a conifer and about 10 very tall holly trees removed 2 years ago (Larger than our house).

All the stumps were ground out too. It cost us £600. We are in the north. He gave us a discount if he could chop up and take the holly for fire wood.

Another vote for do it. You won’t believe the difference it’ll make until it is done. Personally I wouldn’t bother paying for stump grinding (unless for some reason you really want it done).

Definitely get 3 quotes as we had quotes ranging from £950 to £3000 to remove a huge 100 year old tree from our garden.

I want one removed from my front garden, I was told that I could have it cut down to a stump, and then pee on the stump, don't know how long for.
As I said its in my front garden, so if we do this I think we will have to pee into a bucket!!!