Tree Surgeon Cost

Alfster

Hi,

Anyone informed on tree removal costs? Two tree surgeons came out to remove 5 medium trees (hazelnut and holly and beach trees) and 2 small beach trees. They were here 2.5 hours. They chipped it all and it filled up their van. Is £500 including vat reasonable. I know there must be cost of disposing and tools/equipment etc but sounds like I'm in the wrong job!

Section62

Alfster said:

Hi,

Anyone informed on tree removal costs? Two tree surgeons came out to remove 5 medium trees (hazelnut and holly and beach trees) and 2 small beach trees. They were here 2.5 hours. They chipped it all and it filled up their van. Is £500 including vat reasonable. I know there must be cost of disposing and tools/equipment etc but sounds like I'm in the wrong job!

What price/hourly rate did you agree with them before they started work?

greyteam1959

Sounds a pretty fair price to me 

Carrot007

greyteam1959 said:

Sounds a pretty fair price to me 

Sounds very cheap to me. Still who knows the quality of job they did or the circumstances.

Also sounds very quick.

Would pay 5 times that around here as a reasonable cost.

Still Devil.

MovingForwards

Think I paid £240, it was definitely under £300, just to have two hulking leylandaii down and disposed of nearly 2 years ago. Took the lads half a day. I couldn't afford to have the stumps ground down.

If you had yours took down and the stumps ground it was a bargain!

GDB2222

£180 for one tree, here. It took the guy most of a day.

Alfster

Section62 said:

Alfster said:

Hi,

Anyone informed on tree removal costs? Two tree surgeons came out to remove 5 medium trees (hazelnut and holly and beach trees) and 2 small beach trees. They were here 2.5 hours. They chipped it all and it filled up their van. Is £500 including vat reasonable. I know there must be cost of disposing and tools/equipment etc but sounds like I'm in the wrong job!

What price/hourly rate did you agree with them before they started work?

I agreed the price I quoted. I should have asked him how long it would take. Was expecting it to take a while but not a couple of hours. Trees were not stump ground as too close to oil tank so was too risky. Seem reasonable then base don what others have said but 2.5 hours for £500 (without vat) with two guys sounds lucrative. 

GDB2222

Alfster said:

Section62 said:

Alfster said:

Hi,

Anyone informed on tree removal costs? Two tree surgeons came out to remove 5 medium trees (hazelnut and holly and beach trees) and 2 small beach trees. They were here 2.5 hours. They chipped it all and it filled up their van. Is £500 including vat reasonable. I know there must be cost of disposing and tools/equipment etc but sounds like I'm in the wrong job!

What price/hourly rate did you agree with them before they started work?

I agreed the price I quoted. I should have asked him how long it would take. Was expecting it to take a while but not a couple of hours. Trees were not stump ground as too close to oil tank so was too risky. Seem reasonable then base don what others have said but 2.5 hours for £500 (without vat) with two guys sounds lucrative. 

They should have worked less hard, then you wouldn't have minded.

£500 for 7 trees is dead cheap.

Alfster

GDB2222 said:

Alfster said:

Section62 said:

Alfster said:

Hi,

Anyone informed on tree removal costs? Two tree surgeons came out to remove 5 medium trees (hazelnut and holly and beach trees) and 2 small beach trees. They were here 2.5 hours. They chipped it all and it filled up their van. Is £500 including vat reasonable. I know there must be cost of disposing and tools/equipment etc but sounds like I'm in the wrong job!

What price/hourly rate did you agree with them before they started work?

I agreed the price I quoted. I should have asked him how long it would take. Was expecting it to take a while but not a couple of hours. Trees were not stump ground as too close to oil tank so was too risky. Seem reasonable then base don what others have said but 2.5 hours for £500 (without vat) with two guys sounds lucrative. 

They should have worked less hard, then you wouldn't have minded.

£500 for 7 trees is dead cheap.

I mean they were not massive trees with thick trunks. I would say medium sized trees. They were very tall but the trunks were not that thick. Yeh maybe you're right - could have taken much longer. Thanks for the advice. 

Eldi_Dos

If you are concerned about the tree stumps drill some holes in them and hammer in offcuts of copper pipe, this will help speed up the breakdown of the stumps although I would be inclined to see if the holly regenerated and prune it into a bush.
The money you have spent now could save you bigger bills in years to come if trees were in wrong location.

Mojisola

Alfster said:

I agreed the price I quoted. I should have asked him how long it would take. Was expecting it to take a while but not a couple of hours. Trees were not stump ground as too close to oil tank so was too risky. Seem reasonable then base don what others have said but 2.5 hours for £500 (without vat) with two guys sounds lucrative. 

You're not just paying for their time - there's training courses, insurance, equipment, etc to cover as well.

If they had done the work without the equipment, they would have been there much longer.