Reply to: Home Workman Quotes

[Lockhouse]

Beware. Felling certain trees requires planning permission and watch out for the dreaded TPO...

Every single one of our trees is covered by a blanket TPO, we have to apply for planning if we want to lop any branches at all. Plus planning fees of course.

[Lockhouse]

I've decided to do this myself

Just bought myself a fall harness & lanyard for £60 - need 100m of rope to lower branches to the ground and am going to take down a 100ft Beech tree myself - saving £1100

I can put my scaffold tower up to where the branches are manageable and dismantle the tree top down rather than fell

The mother of all bonfires will get rid of the small stuff & there are enough wood burners in the neighbourhood to take away the remainder for free

I admire you for doing it but my life is too short.

[SupremeSpod]

Beware. Felling certain trees requires planning permission and watch out for the dreaded TPO...

[eek]

I've decided to do this myself

Just bought myself a fall harness & lanyard for £60 - need 100m of rope to lower branches to the ground and am going to take down a 100ft Beech tree myself - saving £1100

I can put my scaffold tower up to where the branches are manageable and dismantle the tree top down rather than fell

The mother of all bonfires will get rid of the small stuff & there are enough wood burners in the neighbourhood to take away the remainder for free

Why? If you asked around someone would do the work for free in exchange for half the wood.

[Troll]

I've decided to do this myself

Just bought myself a fall harness & lanyard for £60 - need 100m of rope to lower branches to the ground and am going to take down a 100ft Beech tree myself - saving £1100

I can put my scaffold tower up to where the branches are manageable and dismantle the tree top down rather than fell

The mother of all bonfires will get rid of the small stuff & there are enough wood burners in the neighbourhood to take away the remainder for free

[Lockhouse]

I've been using that checkatrade.com - got a tree bloke and a plasterer through there. Not had a bad result yet.

[rob s]

Got two quotes last year to take down about 2/3 of a huge oak tree. Both quotes from local English tree surgeons.
The first quote was for almost £2.5K, the second one was just over £900. Guess who got the work?

You hired a chainsaw for £50, bought a few ropes, let the wood season for a year and flogged it to a pioneer fantasist eager to try out his shiny new woodsplitter* after watching Ray Mears?


*not a euphemism

[shaunbhoy]

Got two quotes last year to take down about 2/3 of a huge oak tree. Both quotes from local English tree surgeons.
The first quote was for almost £2.5K, the second one was just over £900. Guess who got the work?

[Troll]

How big are the trees and how much did you want taken off?

[mudskipper]

So he came round to sort out your bush, you loved it so much you asked him to service the back?

Then he left a mess?

That about sums it up.

[Ketchup]

I had a gentleman from the travelling community come and trim my trees. He'd done a really good job on the front garden, so I let him round the back. He was chopping stuff off merrily and I had to go out, so I paid him (£160) and left him to finish the job.
Came home to find garden full of branches. He never showed again. Lesson learnt.

So he came round to sort out your bush, you loved it so much you asked him to service the back?

Then he left a mess?

[mudskipper]

I had a gentleman from the travelling community come and trim my trees. He'd done a really good job on the front garden, so I let him round the back. He was chopping stuff off merrily and I had to go out, so I paid him (£160) and left him to finish the job.
Came home to find garden full of branches. He never showed again. Lesson learnt.

[Ketchup]

A lot of tree surgeons now actually work at cost to remove the trees if they can take the logs away as they can get a lot of money for decent hardwood logs from people with log-burners.

[kaiser78]

which one was Polish?
Which was from the travelling Community?

Garden co 1
Garden co 2 (although didn't comment on the state of my driveway...)

[d000hg]

Maybe not the case here, but often there are disposal fees and stuff... your gardener might be just a bloke with a chainsaw and a bonfire