The tree has been dead two years. Wonder what took so long to get it down. Most likely looking for the lowest of the low ballers to get the cheapest rate and they probaly found it. Big trees like that are sure way to go broke slowly if you don't get the right amount of money for them. I have tangled with my share of them over the years . Too much work goes into trees like that and the return is not all that good ,seems the bigger the tree the cheaper the prices become to get them down. Seems like some companies or individuals price these giant trees just to stay busy or do it on purpose so the competition does not get the work. Just don't make sense to me and never has. This aspect of the business hasn't changed in the 30 some odd years I have been doing this.
Well wonder no more cause I am gonna tell you what you allready know: No normal person wants to pay to deal with something like that. First he is going to pretend it doesn't exist, put it in the back of his mind and ponder ways to do it himself maybe, to get it done like a magic trick. He will do that until the little swelling itch on his rectum won't be satisfied by just a scratch and has become a full blown bleeding hemeroid ( this takes about two years of fitful ass scratching sleep as normal people are stubborn) that only a doctor can remove so he looks for the cheapest one...
No, I wouldn't try to wrangle that tree for much less than a mint. I wonder why so many guys stomp over each trying to be the lowest bidder on stuff like that. I mean, do you ask what the doctor charges to cut off a hemerioid? No. You just pay him and go on.