Cost of cutting a tree.

[AHungryCaterpillar]

I have a medium sized garden, it’s south facing but due to a large tree in the garden my garden is in the shade pretty much all day, I want a tree surgeon to reduce the height of the tree but no idea how much this would cost, could anyone give me a rough idea of what I would expect this to cost? I know I can get quotes but just looking for a rough idea if anyone has done the same. It’s a big tree and it’s a conifer (I don’t want it chopped down completely)

depends on many things including the size, type, location of the tree, whether you want the wood disposed of, whether you want it logged, whether you want the brash disposed of, chipped etc.

But generally we pay about £350-£400

We had a huge willow which fell down and smashed a couple of fence panels and that cost £3000 including the fence but we had a smaller willow removed as a precaution (about 20ft high) and that was £250.

Thanks just looking for a rough idea, this is the tree.

About £300 we paid for a similar sized tree to be cut down and that was 2 years ago

I had a huge conifer tree very tall touching electric wires height in my front garden thought I would cost about £1000 to chop down but I was surprised and it was about £300. Best money spent ever. Think it will depend where you live too

We had a huge tree cut down by a couple of fellas who did it for the wood from the tree! It was great, they took it all away!

Rather than reduce it in height, which will not have much effect on the shadiness, I suggest you go for crown lifting, which is removing the lower branches to let more light in underneath.

Ask a proper tree surgeon for their advice, not some chainsaw cowboy, and see if you can find out what species it is first. It could be one that grows into a real whopper, in which case it might be better to remove it altogether.

I believe it’s Lawson cypress, don’t want it removed due to there being a house directly behind my garden, the house is on to the side so it means the house is basically right behind my garden (rather than a garden backing onto a garden) so definitely want to keep it for the privacy aspect.