Tree Surgeons - how much?

[titchy]

Never had a tree before so excuse ignorance! We now have a garden with 4 bloody big trees, a few smaller saplings and enough conifers to fill Centerparcs!

One tree we want rid of as it is blocking light into the living room and I think the roots are damaging a retaining wall. It is a fir tree of some description, about 30 feet high and 20 feet wide.

Does anyone have any idea what I am looking at cost wise for someone to cut it down and take away most of it (leaving us with the trunk for the fire in winter).

TIA!

OP, we are in Surrey (near Dorking), and used a good local firm to take out a row of conifers and grind out the stumps (they were only about 15 feet high, but had been pruned a lot, so had thick trunks). This only took a day, and cost around £400 iirc. I'll PM you their details; they are trustworthy and have done work for my neighbour too.

We've had small ones removed for £30 and the largest was £500.
Some of the quotes we had were for £2500.

I think we got lucky with one who was just starting his business and was desperate for work and positive reviews on his website.

Do shop around.

I'm so glad we did it. We still have some lovely trees, but we also have space and LIGHT!

Hi do you have the persons details who you used?
I live in Surrey, Epsom. Need one tree cut down and
Two or three trees just pruned.
Thank you

Hi I am too in Surrey, Epsom. Do you have the details
if the ppl you used? Sounds like a very good price.
Thank you.

We had a big, old lime tree which was dying removed for £400 - but the tree surgeon we use seems quite cheap. He has this week pruned 3 of our apple trees for just £130.

Is it a leylandii?

It is a bit of an investment to get big 'uns taken out - you will be talking hundreds I suspect. I think if they're not too big, I'd be tempted to try dealing with some of the saplings myself, but definitely get a professional in for the larger ones. It is not a job that it's safe to do yourself.

It is SO worth doing though. The light you'll get and the air will be amazing. Rather than living with something you dislike, it'll give you a blank canvas to make an amazing outdoor space.

I really, REALLY wish people wouldn't plant these out-of-scale trees in small gardens. All they do is create massive problems down the line. I suspect the British obsession with privacy is partly to blame.

We have woodland and so have to take trees down constantly. Be careful on your quotes and make sure you know what is included. We had some quite nasty business last year with a couple of large trees which we paid just over £1000 to have taken down and logged. We were keeping every bit of the wood since we have wood fired heating and we get through masses. The tree surgeons got very stroppy with us when we said they couldn't "dispose of the wood". They only wanted a couple of truck loads. I caught them sneaking back in the following day loading wood onto their truck when they thought I was out.

Zombie thread

The thread is 8 years old. I suspect it has been dealt with.

[grin ] Either that, or the tree is now 60 feet tall!

Had my 60ft tall conifer cut down by these guys at (m&w garden services) not long ago they did a good job with all fairness all for around £1000, check them out www.garden-services-birmingham.co.uk