I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses. 6 of the trees are within 7 ft of my house and 4 of them are within 6 ft of my neighbor's house. All but 2 trees are 60+ ft tall with 2 of the over 100 ft.

No more repairing holes in the roof, bags of acorns and hickory nuts, and 4 months of leave season. We evacuate for hurricanes in fear if trees coming on the house, not flooding concerns.

I've already taken out 6 trees already since we moved here in 2002 and this is only about a .4 acre residential lot. My back deck is unusable due to rot since the deck never dries out and i'm looking forward to actually growing grass instead of fungus.

Damn I'm excited!

I have a friend with similar problems - I trust you are getting a quantity discount...

I hope you negotiated the sale of all your lumber to offset the cost.

Well I can only imagine what that's gonna cost, but it'll be worth it. We got rid of my neighbor's 60-80' tall pine a few years ago and it's made a huge difference. No more limbs falling on my house, no more raking massive piles of pine straw, and no more dampness and rot back there. Now if I could only get my other neighbor to get rid of his spruce that's just as big.

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I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses...

Does the neighbor know?

I have a 250 year old white oak between my back yard and my neighbor’s back yard. It's massive. Of course, she thinks it's on my side, but it's on the line. It's slowly dying. That's gonna be a fun one.

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I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses...

Does the neighbor know?

I hope so,

my neighbor, had a bunch of trees removed, by the neighbor behind us,
fortunately, only one tree was partially on my land, so no biggy to me, ,but he was not happy,

we have large lots (his is about 2 acres, mine is over 3) and a wooded section , not landscaped between us and the back neighbor
back neighbor did not like the fact his garden and yard were constantly in the shade, so he cut a handful or more down,


we ended up paying a surveyor (later reimbursed by the guy) to mark our property lines again,

not sure of the outcome next door, it is still a bit of a heated conversation

I live on property that was part tree farm decades ago. Over the years I’ve planted various trees and protected certain trees that came up naturally.

In many areas I’ve gone to more oaks and sugar maples. Some of the pine/evergreen types shed branches & whatever with ice events and such.

Most are away from the house, not a danger to anything. My plan is to take a few out at a time before they get too big. I’m just trying to open up more sun & help the trees I want.

In most cases, a medium or larger tree, the massive amount of branches & cleanup. I also have a fair amount of red pine that are dying, the soil isn’t the best for them.

Sounds expensive!

Just to have ONE huge old tree trimmed really well last fall set me back $1,200

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Originally posted by chellim1:

Does the neighbor know?

A year or so after we moved into our current house a neighbor helped me cut down an ugly and very fat overgrown yew bush that had turned into a 18 foot high yew tree up against the one corner of my house.

After we got it down, my neighbor comes out and and loudly complains "so much for the privacy and shade on my porch!

Me: "oh fuckin' WELL!"

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Sounds expensive!

No kidding, what does removing 14 tree's cost?
Does this include removal of all parts and grinding of stump?

Where my parents used to live in Calavares Co, that'd would easily have run $15k+

I have 46 mature (most over 25ft) Palm Trees and 3 live Oaks

I’m now on day 4 of trimming them. There was constant debris after storms and strong winds. I’ll have a little reprieve for a while now

All the quotes I got were over $6000. Most closer to 10k. I rented a 45ft lift, 30yd open top and will pay a couple teenagers to pick everything up

Hope to be done trimming today

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I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses...

Does the neighbor know?

He will in about 2 hours

Selling the wood isn’t really a thing here. There are too many trees around here for there to be any real value in it. You can’t get anyone to show up and take it for free from the curb. Most of the trees are water oaks with a couple of hickory trees.

I don't mind sharing that 14 trees hauled away, 16 stumps ground and all debris removed is just short of 15K. It was actually better then i was expecting. I had 5 companies quote the job and they we all within a 2.5K range. I had done my research and would have been happy with any of them but the deciding factor was this company's reputation for leaving the property in better shape then they found it. The timing was intentional. I starting getting quotes in May when the tree business is slow. The deeper into hurricane season, the more it would have cost. If there was a hurricane, this job would have been upwards of 50K and no idea how long it would take then to get to it.

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The timing was intentional. I starting getting quotes in May when the tree business is slow. The deeper into hurricane season, the more it would have cost.

Good. It's better when it's planned. In an emergency things get expensive.

Now post some before, during and after pics.

I had 28 75'-100' Ponderosas dropped this spring. Anything that could hit the house or shop was removed (I got tired of worrying about it). I can put a tree where I want it 98% of the time, but when working around the house or shop? That 2% will rear its ugly head sure as I'm sitting here.

Fella came out with a 50' cherry picker and a helper. Took them all down, cut them up and hauled them to an area that I can burn them after the snow flies and they dry out a little, ran all the branches through a chipper, and cleaned everything up. $3800. That didn't include any stump grinding as I'm not too worried about that. I just cut them all down to the ground level and let Mother Nature take them.

I can't imagine paying the prices some of you guys are paying. Ouch.

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I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses.

Ummm...I just went back and saw this

You are cutting down trees that are not on your property?

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
I'm finally getting 14 trees taken out starting tomorrow including all of my trees and 4 trees on my neighbor’s side of the property line between our houses.

Ummm...I just went back and saw this

You are cutting down trees that are not on your property?

No. I am paying someone else to cut down trees that are not on my property.

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Now post some before, during and after pics.

Yes please!

I've had a fair amount of tree work done and thankfully I lot of it was done by a buddy on his off days. He's a climber and his cash price was very reasonable.

Do you have a plan for dealing with angry, payback-minded Ents?

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
No. I am paying someone else to cut down trees that are not on my property.

Is it legal to pay someone to go onto someone else's property, a neighbor's, and cut their trees down if the neighbor doesn't know about it?

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
No. I am paying someone else to cut down trees that are not on my property.

Is it legal to pay someone to go onto someone else's property, a neighbor's, and cut their trees down if the neighbor doesn't know about it?

I wouldn’t think so.

I believe it's $800 per tree if you "accidentally" cut down trees across your property line here in WV. This came about from loggers routinely doing this when timbering.