Slinger, Around here a decent size removal will be 3 to 5 thousand dollars. These are pretty much impossible without chainsaws. My point is that an 11 hundred dollar chainsaw is a easily paid for in a days work doing residential take downs, every days use you get out of thereafter is pure profit. I have one customer that buys a half dozen saws a year, not all from me unfortunately ( he like another brand top handle saw) but he does average a saw every other month for his crews. He ain't crying over the price, he knows it's the cost of doing business and his saws do make him money. He also knows I'll take of him when he drops a saw off.