Thread: Removal of 7m tall dead trees

Some more info . ie size of butts & photo's may help with a better answer

Gary

First check what council approval you need before you touch them. The fines are hefty for unauthorised cutting, even when most most folks would think it sensible to get get the chainsaw out.

Talk to a professional tree clearer. They'll know the law. When I had a redwood cut, probably about the same height, it was $500 to fell, $1500 to take away. I asked them to leave it there for me to deal with.

Sounds a lot, but it was dropping branches big enough to kill an adult, let along my kids.

Don't underestimate the weight in these things. Get it done properly.

Where we are, anything dead is fair game and anything on the boundary is fair game. Make the call to the council.

Funny you should post today, I just helped my neighbour cut up four dead gums that he had dropped last week. Cost him 1k. They cut them up into 1.5m. We cut them up today into rounds for splitting for fire places, ours.

He did not need council permission as they were dead.

I paid about $1400 mine was about 10mts, thats tree climber took it section by section, took away and munched them. Grubbing is about $50 extra

A liquid amber closer to $2k I got Taylors, they are more expensive ,but they send a crew of about 6 guys and the don't stop, whipped it down and were gone in about 3 hours with all tree taken. No fuss professional and quick, but as I said you pay.

Originally Posted by birdman11

I have about 8 Leighton Cypress Pine trees which have caught a disease and died. T.

Do tell please how did you get them to disease and die?
I've drilled holes in trunk , syringed tree killer into the hole and plugged it up and tried the copper nail trick, got some copper pipe and bashed it in. Still growing. These when I put them in 18 odd years ago where not supped to get over 5 metres, well tell the tree that. under the 10-50 rule one is close enough to lop with out a permit. The only thing I haven't tried is bashing a Hilcone in to it and see if it kills them

we had ours dropped 2/3 months ago we got the tree guys out because the two trees we had together one was dead and we were not skilled enough to drop the tree which was 8/10 meters in height without hitting our newly erected fence or the neighbours house or the other tree right next to it.

The guys came out and informed us that the second tree was actually really diseased and that they both needed to go as the diseased tree was more dangerous than the dead one.

So we had both dropped cost us $1000 for both, both trees were between 8/10meters in height, they cut them up into manageable chunks for us to chop up for firewood later. This also included stump grinding of both stumps which were easily 1 to 1.5meters in diameter...

I personally think the money was very well spent and we got a lot for our money I would certainly not hesitate using them again should we find ourselves in a similar situation.

A much safer option to IMHO

Where we are you generally don't require a permit to take out a dead tree, or some of the cypress pine varieties.

Martyn