Anyone paid for tree work recently?

I'm preparing myself for a raping in the spring. I have 24 mature live oaks to be pruned!!!! Gonna look awesome when they finish though!

I had several large pines and oaks removed a couple of years ago. The guy charged me a different rate depending on whether he had room to just saw it off and drop them or was in close proximity to my house and fencing where he had to climb and take them down in pieces. He charged $350 for the ones that required climbing and $175 for the ones he could drop in place. He gave me that price because there were 14 of them and the pines were large enough to make saw logs and he was going to resell the oaks as firewood.

Yeah - I was surprised when he quoted it. Those pines were massive with lots of board feet of lumber in them. He sold those and cut and split the oaks and sold the firewood himself.

Had two quotes around $2000 to take out a river birch a month ago. I ended up renting some equipment and only spent $250 to do it myself

No - he hauled off every scrap from the oak trees.

He must have had a buyer for the pines in order to do the work that cheaply. Not to mention that he had several days work in one location. No doubt his price would be higher if I only needed 1 or 2 removed. The pines were roughly 80' tall and 36" in diameter. The heartwood in each one would easily make 2 12" x 12" beams 20' in length.

If it's touching the power lines, call your power company and get them to come cut it first. If you get the right crew, they will remove most of the tree and you can get the remaining cut very cheap.

If any of y'all fell some pine trees, I will take the logs.