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[tunnie]

Cost.......One young fit man (You) and petrol chainsaw.


Total cost about £150.

If it was half the height, I'd easily take it on. Have to see, getting little ahead of myself here. 

[tunnie]

We had thirteen 50ft poplars cut back to 6ft and all the wood taken away.

Cost £520, after negotiation. 

It took thee man half a day.

What was the initial quoted price?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We also had a mature sycamore which measured a good 60 ft cut down for free......

free wood for a year for the guys who did the work.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We had thirteen 50ft poplars cut back to 6ft and all the wood taken away.

Cost £520, after negotiation. 

It took thee man half a day.

What was the initial quoted price?

From memory it was about £700 and we had to deal with the wood.

[tunnie]

We had thirteen 50ft poplars cut back to 6ft and all the wood taken away.

Cost £520, after negotiation. 

It took thee man half a day.

What was the initial quoted price?

From memory it was about £700 and we had to deal with the wood.

Nice, thats a good discount 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Cost.......One young fit man (You) and petrol chainsaw.


Total cost about £150.

If it was half the height, I'd easily take it on. Have to see, getting little ahead of myself here. 

I suppose it depends how close it is to 'breakable'  items.........e.g..... house.....greenhouse.......Omega 3.2 Elite.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We had thirteen 50ft poplars cut back to 6ft and all the wood taken away.

Cost £520, after negotiation. 

It took thee man half a day.

What was the initial quoted price?

From memory it was about £700 and we had to deal with the wood.

Nice, thats a good discount 

It was a genuine company, too. All the safety gear and not a pikey in sight.

[tunnie]

Like I say at half height, i'd attack it. I'd actually want to keep the wood for burning. I might just have a bash myself, how hard can it be? 

[cnj]

leylandii do not burn well, certainly not for open fire use, green, it'll soot everything up pretty damn quick ! and dry it will be up the chimney and gone before you know it. the best use I can think of is to chip it up and use it for mulch !!

[Andy B]

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I was briefly tempted to go back to 25 years for the new one, but stuck with old term. So after my next 5 year fixed, its down to 17 years, still a while to go   
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If you got a quote for 25 yr & another for 25yrs minus what you've already paid for, you'll probably have found there wasn't much difference in the payments anyway. 

[Andy B]

Cost.......One young fit man (You) and a petrol chainsaw.


Total cost about £150.

A mate of a mate is a tree surgeon, & he says he goes to loads of trees where someone has tackled it previously with a hire shop chainsaw and they've ended up in hospital due to chainsaw rash!   

[PhilRich]

Petrol, match, deckchair, alcoholic beverage, popcorn, phone near at hand if it all goes tits up!

[Andy B]

Petrol, match, deckchair, alcoholic beverage, popcorn, phone near at hand if it all goes tits up!

            

[jonathanh]

ok  my advice is that you don't need a tree surgeon but a tree executioner.  There is no great skill in getting lelandii out, just brute force, same for poplars

I had a dozen 30 ft poplars taken out in a day for £200 roots as well. 

A lelandii of that size I'd pull with a tractor ( if you can get to it).  the root ball will pop out.

Best advice is to find a local farmer

[Rods2]

How much space have you got for it to fall in any direction? as that will define how high up the trunk you will have to cut it?

Accurately getting it to fall in a particular direction is very straight forward. Rope the tree above where you are going to cut it. Tie the tensioned rope a concrete fence post or something non-movable like this, if it is not safe to have someone pulling on the rope. Cut a horizontal V in the direction of the fall about half way through the trunk and then cut through Horizontally on the other side about 1/2 way through the trunk about 25mm ABOVE the V. Put a metal wedge into the horizontal cut and hit with a hammer, this will start the tree falling. Obviously you need to be behind the tree, so it does not fall on you!

When cutting wood with a chainsaw it is important that the gap does not close as this can cause the saw to kick back. If you hire a chainsaw, make sure you have the proper gloves and ideally trousers. These both contain thin stands on nylon material which clogs the saw and stops it before you have taken your hand or a limb off. A chain saw can cut through a branch in seconds, it will go through a limb even faster! 

I was fortunate in that a friend of mine used to be a woodsman at Longleat and taught me how to use a chainsaw before I bought one for myself.