9500.00 pounds sterling. Very unsafe huge leaning Black Poplar no one else wanted to do it it was rotten as a pear and 120ft (plus) tall, sat in water, three stemmed, one had to be climbed and dismantled, and the rest came down in one. I started my face cut (which I was making at the bottom of an embankment) then after about a few inches a hole in the back appeared so I left it small. I then climbed to the top of the embankment. It was to wide to do a boring cut so I made a series of progressively deeper back cuts and started to fell it about six inches into the back cut the root system collapsed and down she came. It was an awesome job.
Everything was left on site as 'snake cover' including about a ton and a half of Ivy we had to remove before we even started on the tree.
Funnily enough I found the photos of this the other day, and marked them for my wife to scan so I could post them.