Storm barra caused a large branch of a cyprus fir from bottom of my garden, circa 8m long to fall on neighbours shed, been quoted €1000 to remove, is this a reasonable cost? Only moved in a week ago so no awareness that it might happen :-(
I suspect the 50cm is diameter, not radius.
A tree that has a 1 meter diameter and is only 8 metres tall?
aha, so the quote is to remove the tree, rather than just the branch? the price is making more sense. a tree with a 50cm diameter trunk is not a small tree.
that would also settle the question about buying a chainsaw and doing it on your own, you'd be insane to try that.
You could try a reciprocating saw if you are handy with DIY. Safer than a chain saw. Buy lots of spare blades as they're cheap and change when the saw starts to slow down. Gloves, goggles etc.
Be very aware of the forces on the tree and branches as it might swing when some weight is removed. Consider holding down with rope / weights and cut off branches , bits of branches first.
It's about a tenner to dump a car load of cuttings in Ballymount so other recycling centres should be similar.
sarcasm. see first comment from me in thread.
True, you see so many chainsaw pranks on youtube .I'm just waiting for some idiot to do a prank and leave the chain on through absolute cluelessness that in the prank videos it's actually taken off.
I don't agree with you because lot's of us have use for chainsaws and we need somewhere to buy them.
It is however bordering on criminal for someone to operate one without following safety guidelines.
So the quote is €1000 to fell and remove the whole tree?
How tall is the tree?
Thanks for your comments. Home insurance only covers damage to our house, it would only cover public liability if we were legally liable, which we are not as we did not know there was if there was any difficiency in the tree and a tree falling is an act of nature. Radius is about 50cm. Quite a lot of small branches/leaves as its a fir tree.
It is criminal that shops are allowed offer chainsaws for sale to the Public.
Unless you have experience with a chainsaw, do not touch. I visited a neighbour who had bought one and the chain was stretched to the point of falling off. He didn't know you had to adjust it.
Get a quote from a tree surgeon.
one issue might be that if it's still sitting on a broken shed, this could easily complicate a removal if it's precarious, compared to whether it's just sitting on the ground. also, how much brash would removing it generate, etc.; you might need to source a garden shredder for an hour or three also.
but yeah, €1000 seems enormous.
A fair point. Hopping in there with a chainsaw wouldn't be advisable if you've never used one before.
Could get a handsaw instead for €20 and take 100 times as long to cut it up.
Seriously though, a grand seems a hell of a lot to take away one branch. About a year ago, I got a properly certified tree surgeon in to take down four large trees around the old farmhouse at home that were in danger of toppling. Price was €1500 and there was a lot more work in it than OP would have for somebody here. Granted, I didn't have him cut it all down to log-sized pieces (I have a chainsaw myself, remember!), but even still, €1,000 for a branch is steep.
having known a couple of people who have had near misses with chainsaws, i'd be slow to advise someone who may not know the first thing about them to go out and buy one to chop up a branch.
how big is the branch, i.e. in diameter?
A grand to take away a branch?
Someone's having a giraffe.
Am not being "smart", but am actually just back inside myself after spending the last few hours cutting up a tree that blew down at the bottom of our lawn, using a second-hand chainsaw I bought a couple of years ago for about €80. Your eight metre branch is probably fairly hefty all right, but it's nowhere near as much wood as I've just cut. Is it an option to just cut it up yourself?
P.S. I see somebody else suggesting the same thing just as I type this
Would your home insurance cover that, some home insurance would have third party liability
new or secondhand chainsaw from classified adverts for under 100 quid. cut up branch. throw over boundary. store for a few months sheltered from damp and you get firewood for fire. re-advertise chainsaw for sale. net cost under 50 quid and a few nights of fuel.
Your home insurance would be the first port of call.
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