Yeah, estimates for tree removal can vary wildly depending how busy a certain service ("I'm really busy but if they pay me enough I'll do it first") to how desperate a land owner is to have one removed. Our first house had a fairly big locust tree (the one without spines--honey??) that had gotten carpenter ants into it so it ended up losing one of its main limbs during an ice storm so we decided to take it down the next warm season. Besides, the wifey hated all the little leaflets that were about impossible to rack come the fall. She got about half a dozen bids and they ranged from $600 to $1,800. I forgot why we didn't go with the cheapest one but it ended up costing us about $900 to have it taken down and the stump ground up. And ours was an easy street to do the work on.
Yeah, potentially some good money for the work but it is dangerous and a guy has to know what he's doing when dropping big limbs and trunks. The laws of physics apply....
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