wrote:

I have three pine trees about 40' tall that I want cut down. They are
about 30' from my house and 15' from some wires. What is a reasonable
estimate to have these cut down? Is removal included in the price? I
live north of Boston.



I live in Winchester, Taxachusetts and last summer needed four 50 foot
box elder trees removed because they had grown to where they were
shading our back lawn enough to make it near impossible to keep the
grass looking good. One other large tree needed a couple of limbs
removed to further open up the area.

Knowing nobody in the business and never needing tree work beyond my own
abilities before, I went to the Massachusetts Arborist web site:

http://www.massarbor.org/

From their membership list I selected a guy named Derek Binding in
Winchester. He did the job for about $1200 including chipping up
everything and removing it so the place was "broom clean" when he left.

I can say that he handled himself like a true professional, showing up
when he said he would and even laying down down sheets of 3/4" plywood
so his bucket truck's tires wouldn't sink into the lawn. It was a
pleasure to watch him steer that cherry picker bucket around and remove
those trees from the top down while his two "schleppers" hauled what he
tossed down to them over to the chipper.

HTH,

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia

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