We had a tree surgeon look at the back garden. Turns out the trees at the far end are bastarding Leylandii , so rather than my original plan of just getting rid of 5 to make space for a shed and leaving a few for the birds to hide in I asked for a quote to kill them all utterly to deth.
That was £750 vs £1380. Pingu went
Well, I got another guy round, who is from an established outfit. He said it was an easy job with no real climbing involved and his jaw dropped when I told him the first quote.
This one: £380 for the lot.
Here's another data point:
We had 20 very overgrown Leylandii taken down a month or so back.
They totally blocked out light from the neighbour's garden.
These were big boys, around 4 people high.
Way beyond a DIY job for me and my ikkle chainsaw.
This was done by Roy Cowie ( see posts passim, 'By appointment to Brenda, Big Lugs and the rest' ), so at the higher end of the market. Not cowboys.
Total cost was somewhere around £700.
It was a big job to remove them, a squad of several workers, several vans and the biggest timberwolf wood-chomper I've ever seen.
The 30cm steel rule in the second pic gives an idea of scale.
Leylandii by
Ron Lowe, on Flickr
Leylandii by
Ron Lowe, on Flickr