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Just outside of Atlanta, Georgia in the USA. There are 12 pines that I would say easily exceed 75 feet, probably closer to 100 feet.
Sorry for the poor images (taken through a window screen) because it's cold and rainy outside. Just trying to give a general idea of the work area.
Back yard
Middle of trees
Top of trees
The tree on the front right is the largest, as seen in the top of the trees pic.
The one on the front left is missing most of it's branches all the way up to most of the top of it. A lot of the branches must have been on one side. Probably 3-4 years ago, we heard a loud crack one night and basically a huge branch from up top did a domino effect on the way down and I woke up to a pile of healthy pine branches probably 3.5 - 4 feet tall on the ground weighing hundreds of pounds. Lower down on the tree, I see a couple of streaks. Now, it had a streak on it for probably 10-15 years and seemed perfectly healthy. As of lately, it seems like another streak is on it and there are visible 'holes' of sorts forming in it. It has withstood 30+mph gusts of wind, however. I suspect that lightning may have hit it more recently, but there is greenery at the top of it. I just see what looks like holes forming in the strike marks themselves and would like to see about getting it down in the near future.
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One of the trees (on the far back right) has dead vines on it (they're visible in line with the house on the right back) that stick out for probably 3-4 feet on all sides. Some type of vine...it's these long, squiggly tangled vines unfortunately left over from where they were cut at the base of the tree and died last year. They are likely somewhat loose and a few have fallen off, but not at a very fast rate. Not sure what to do about that because the now-dead vines probably go up a ways....60-75 feet on that particular tree. How would they even approach climbing a tree with those hitting them in the face? I suspect that if pulled on, they likely would come off easily in big clumps, though.
Ideally, I'd like to get all 12 cut down at once.
This is the front of the house:
On the right, you can see power lines going to our house. They're maybe 12' feet up and run to the corner of the house. The house to the right of that is vacant. Someone bought it last year and it just sits there. Our back yard is 130 feet long. Some kind of crane truck would obviously not fit on the left side of the house between our back porch and the fence separating our yard from the neighbor's. It would also tear our awning/porch railing off, I'm sure. That's an old, cracked up driveway that nobody uses and has been there for decades. There's a big dip towards the back that goes onto regular dirt, as well. I just don't see a truck driving through on the left.
So instead, for that 4-foot chain link fence on the right, I'm thinking that I could just sawzall the middle post to ground level and snip down the fence back to the other two posts and just put it up later. Hopefully they can get whatever trucks/equipment back there so as to not have to charge for doing something ridiculous like hand-rolling logs 150 feet to the front yard, for instance.
The house itself looks like it's just 'covered' in branches, but it's an illusion and most of those are over the back yard behind the house. I can probably safely trim some of them with a simple rope and rope chain saw with a little throw weight.
Just curious how the pros would handle this. I know that prices vary by region/state and also based on whether it's a large or small company, the company rates themselves, etc. Naturally, I'll seek a number of quotes on this before deciding. What is a 'reasonable' rate for this large job for dropping them and hauling it all away for the 12 trees?
Sorry for the poor images (taken through a window screen) because it's cold and rainy outside. Just trying to give a general idea of the work area.
Back yard
Middle of trees
Top of trees
The tree on the front right is the largest, as seen in the top of the trees pic.
The one on the front left is missing most of it's branches all the way up to most of the top of it. A lot of the branches must have been on one side. Probably 3-4 years ago, we heard a loud crack one night and basically a huge branch from up top did a domino effect on the way down and I woke up to a pile of healthy pine branches probably 3.5 - 4 feet tall on the ground weighing hundreds of pounds. Lower down on the tree, I see a couple of streaks. Now, it had a streak on it for probably 10-15 years and seemed perfectly healthy. As of lately, it seems like another streak is on it and there are visible 'holes' of sorts forming in it. It has withstood 30+mph gusts of wind, however. I suspect that lightning may have hit it more recently, but there is greenery at the top of it. I just see what looks like holes forming in the strike marks themselves and would like to see about getting it down in the near future.
.
One of the trees (on the far back right) has dead vines on it (they're visible in line with the house on the right back) that stick out for probably 3-4 feet on all sides. Some type of vine...it's these long, squiggly tangled vines unfortunately left over from where they were cut at the base of the tree and died last year. They are likely somewhat loose and a few have fallen off, but not at a very fast rate. Not sure what to do about that because the now-dead vines probably go up a ways....60-75 feet on that particular tree. How would they even approach climbing a tree with those hitting them in the face? I suspect that if pulled on, they likely would come off easily in big clumps, though.
Ideally, I'd like to get all 12 cut down at once.
This is the front of the house:
On the right, you can see power lines going to our house. They're maybe 12' feet up and run to the corner of the house. The house to the right of that is vacant. Someone bought it last year and it just sits there. Our back yard is 130 feet long. Some kind of crane truck would obviously not fit on the left side of the house between our back porch and the fence separating our yard from the neighbor's. It would also tear our awning/porch railing off, I'm sure. That's an old, cracked up driveway that nobody uses and has been there for decades. There's a big dip towards the back that goes onto regular dirt, as well. I just don't see a truck driving through on the left.
So instead, for that 4-foot chain link fence on the right, I'm thinking that I could just sawzall the middle post to ground level and snip down the fence back to the other two posts and just put it up later. Hopefully they can get whatever trucks/equipment back there so as to not have to charge for doing something ridiculous like hand-rolling logs 150 feet to the front yard, for instance.
The house itself looks like it's just 'covered' in branches, but it's an illusion and most of those are over the back yard behind the house. I can probably safely trim some of them with a simple rope and rope chain saw with a little throw weight.
Just curious how the pros would handle this. I know that prices vary by region/state and also based on whether it's a large or small company, the company rates themselves, etc. Naturally, I'll seek a number of quotes on this before deciding. What is a 'reasonable' rate for this large job for dropping them and hauling it all away for the 12 trees?
