Tree chopping how much is fair? settle an argument please?

jessilu1

At this precise moment I have 2 landscaping guys, severely chopping back 3 really big trees in my garden including a huge Holly tree, chopping down and removing a big dead tree which is full of woodworm, and clearing up the bottom of the garden which has a huge pile of Old branches and fencing.

They are charging £250 which I think is more than fair, and I've told them to go ahead and they are.... my o/h on the other hand is furious, he thinks it's too much.

We're near London, so do you think that it's a fair price,?...I've always cut back the trees myself up to now so I haven't got a clue about cost, I just think that £250 sounds like a price I'm willing to pay. What do you think?

Ken68

Good price. Two men would want at least £100 each (and you need two operatives if using a chainsaw) a day plus disposal costs...sounds about right.
May be your OH is aggrieved you didn't ask him , or maybe he doesn't have the skill or doesn't like getting mucky, any number of reasons.
Maybe he feels guilty that he should be doing the job, so taking it out on the workers.

hethmar

Depends on the size of the trees really but if they are big, sounds ok to me. We had a team of blokes in (council ones that OH collared ) and they climbed up and chain sawed down a 50 ft ash to about 12 feet in about 2 hours and left all the wood as we wanted it for our stove. They charged £150 which I thought was well worth it. (another quote had been double)

jessilu1

Thanks folks, they're done now, they took about 3 hours, and cleared it all away as well, so I'm pleased as punch, the o/h still has the hump with me tho, simply because he didn't want it all cut back, he wants to live in a secret garden I think!

Anyhoo everything looks so much brighter and cleaner now.

I was surprised at how many of the neighbours came out to ask them to do theirs, sadly they had no more room on the truck but I'm sure they'll be back.

Barneysmom

Worth every penny! You have saved your house foundations too, and that's priceless

hethmar

My OH usually gets the hump if I have other men do any work in the house. He always finds fault with it, but then I could wait ten years for him to do a job a tradesman will do in a day. Just ignore him, he will come round

jessilu1

hethmar wrote: »

My OH usually gets the hump if I have other men do any work in the house. He always finds fault with it, but then I could wait ten years for him to do a job a tradesman will do in a day. Just ignore him, he will come round

errrm are you married to my husband? :eek: you've just summed mine up exactly :cool::)

Welshwoofs

That's cheap! I recently paid around that much to have one apple tree felled and removed. In my last place the landscapers charged £160 per day per person and for lopping big firs we had they'd need 3 people working.

ALIBOBSY

My OH is the opposite, he is always doing jobs as soon as you mention them. In fact sometimes when he should be looking after the kids or doing a more urgent task , I or he will have noticed something that needs doing in the next few weeks, like paint the garage, trim the hedges before winter.

He will dissappear and when I look for him he is work clothes and boots up to eyes in paint/wood/strimmers etc. He had a lovely weekend a few weeks ago when we finally got the chickens he had been after for years. A whole weekend of clearing ground, sawing and hammering wood, putting up fences and tarp, laying bark for the ground etc etc.

Mind you he works in IT so doing physical jobs especially outdoors is a rest to him. Kids love it, no wonder we all live in wellies.

If no jobs he will be out foraging lol.

But that price sounds about right, where I would have been stood in the rain holding a ladder whilst OH was in his element.

ali x