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Old 11th May 2007, 12:08 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TrevMcRev View Post
Those firs look so easy for big trees, just single trunk with LOTS of small branches. Compared to some of the big multi stemmed spreading mongrel Eucs we get here, especially when you take em outta the forest and put them on their own in the open.

In the average customers eyes are they seen as big and worth a lota $$$ to remove anyway or competition keeps things tight?
There's lots of price shopping here and a ton of competition (60+ companies - 200K population), but there's lots of trees and lots of money. Anyone who can afford to live in a 800K + house can afford to look after their trees. People pay to be listened to and to have the job done right. The fir removal we did today only took 35 minutes - chipped, bucked, done. The whole job (rope down 7 large (10") fir limbs over house, remove alder, remove small fir) took two of us 4.5 hrs I quoted 800.00 and the guy gave us an extra 100.00 tip. I paid the climber 350.00 then went and did a small job for 275.00 on my own. Not a bad day and I was home by 2:00pm.
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