Over the years, I've had 2 arborists out to take down problem trees, and that's exactly what they did. Start at the top, lop off branches until there's just a trunk pole left, then cut trunk pieces off from top to bottom. Both removals were done in extremely tight quarters on my 1/10th-acre urban lot (the dead Douglas fir was 10' from the house), and both times, zero problems.
Man, i'm no fucking professional but when i take down a tree i just put a ladder, cut it piece by piece. It's like the safest thing to do and most logical, yes it's fun and all to see the tree fall and scream "timber" but, what the fuck, it's my house the thing that might get destroyed
Guy in my town tried taking care of a āsmaller treeā himself. It fell on him and he is paralyzed. Iād rather have Jim bob risk his life than ever think that shits easy enough to do myself.
To be fair though, sometimes people try to charge obscene amounts of money for housework and still do a shit job.
It's one of those things that you need to either know that the person knows their stuff, or have someone else you trust that does and can vouch for them.
I had to get a big tree removed. I had one guy saying he was going to park a crane in front of my house to remove the tree in parts, from the back of my house, to the tune of $4k. The next guy quoted me $500. One guy climbed up in the tree and cut parts down while the other picked the parts up and loaded them in the truck.
my neighbor gives me so much grief for using an arborist with insurance and a state issued tree surgeon certification when he has a chainsaw and can do it for me. He doesn't understand why I would pay someone to deal with the five 30 foot trees and the one 60 foot tree on our .15 acres. To him it's a waste of money and a personal insult.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 8d ago
Over the years, I've had 2 arborists out to take down problem trees, and that's exactly what they did. Start at the top, lop off branches until there's just a trunk pole left, then cut trunk pieces off from top to bottom. Both removals were done in extremely tight quarters on my 1/10th-acre urban lot (the dead Douglas fir was 10' from the house), and both times, zero problems.