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joelid
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tree service needed
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4/10/2011 4:04:45 PM
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Hi All,
Anyone know of a fair, bonded and licensed tree guy, we have a job.
Thanks
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Maverick
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tree service needed
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4/10/2011 4:47:05 PM
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Call Floyd's weed and feed in dadeville.
Also David easterwood in Alex city
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roswellric
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Ditto...
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4/10/2011 9:01:36 PM
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But why do you want a bonded contractor? Is it a very large job? You want liability, auto or owned vehicles and especially workers comp. Get certificates from the insurance agency NOT the contractor.
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alabound
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 1:44:30 PM
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have had great experience with Trees R Us
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lakngulf
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 5:07:30 PM
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What can a person expect to pay for two or three large pines to be removed?
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Mack
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 6:38:14 PM
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Had it done several times in B'Ham and at LM. Depends a LOT on how the tree comes down, limb by limb or in one crash. Also whether or not you want stump grinding.
The price, without grinding, seems to be around $150 to $300 per tree, including cleanup and haul-off of the remains. Maybe higher now.
If the trees are within reach of your home, however, don't use anybody who you doubt for one second! Bonded/Certified/Insured/Guaranteed don't count when a giant Pine or Sweetgum comes crashing down on your roof.
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It cost's me about $15 for the gas and a professional chain sharpening...........if I'm feeling lazy, I pay a lackey $10/hour to do the grunt work but I usually enjoy the exercise if it's only one tree.
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lakngulf
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 8:10:05 PM
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Ok, you're. I have three trees, so $15 x 3 = $45. I will be the lackey and do the haul off. No wait, Mack said I should get someone I trust. All there of these could center my house.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 9:19:15 PM (updated 4/11/2011 9:24:37 PM)
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never hit the house and I've knocked down some big ones that were up close and personal over the years; That's what long ropes and the JD are for. I do make sure the insurance is paid up just in case I ever "F" it up....there's a first time for everything.
so, pay your insurance, take 4-5 hundred and buy a 20" Stihl or Husquavarna, then hire a lackey. You'll come out even or better on the first 3 trees and they will be cheap from that point on. You'll also get good exercise. I'll come drink a beer and show you how to do it.
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MrHodja
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 9:35:19 PM
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I'm just around the corner a bit from LNG and Mack - will you come to my place too?
Actually my back is too screwed up right now to do that, but if we happen to be at our cabin (its the one you look at and ask yourself if that ramshackle thing is inhabitable) I would love to meet you. We are on Cardinal Drive if that would help.
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Maverick
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LNG
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4/11/2011 9:52:07 PM
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Let McGill do it. But the trick to ensure your insurance will cover it, is for you to cut the tree first, then let McGill finish the cut that way when McGill hits your house you can honestly say you cut the tree - LOL.
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lakngulf
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LNG is chicken
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4/11/2011 10:04:11 PM
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Well here's the deal:
1) I have cut several trees down around the house, and one of them made me gun shy. We had plenty of rope but no tractor at the time.
2) I had this big sweet gum all knotched to fall a certain way, had the ropes (yes ropes) attached high and pulled tight that way (even had moved the truck because my wife told me the tree would fall that far)
3) I go to the opposite side of the knotch and start sawing, about 2/3 of way through the big sweet gum rocked back onto the saw, and I said "OH hit". Back toward the saw was looking right at my pier, floating dock, deck boat and sea doo.
4) I move the boat and sea doo, get more rope, tie it to the truck, and slowly pull the tree the way it was supposed to fall
5) Sure enough it would have hit the truck
6) I cannot reach around the three trees that need to come down, and they have no place to fall.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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LNG is chicken
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4/11/2011 10:11:52 PM (updated 4/11/2011 10:12:50 PM)
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Yep, that could be a problem... I'm not afraid to drop a tree +/- 20 feet of my proposed center line, but I won't climb up and take them down piece by piece if there is no drop zone.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Ditto...
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4/11/2011 11:35:45 PM (updated 4/11/2011 11:39:12 PM)
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I'll stop by this spring or summer.....look forward to it. Looking at Mack's place from the water, you are to the left?
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MrHodja
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Ditto...
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4/12/2011 7:45:23 AM
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No - if you went right to the next big slough, we are in the far right of the slough. There is an overgrown property on the left as you enter the slough. Maybe we'll see you there.
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Summer Lover
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Hey UEM
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4/12/2011 9:28:12 AM
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Do Stihl or Husky make a 2 stroke blender with a bar and chain attachment so I can use it all year?
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I suggest a separate appliance; the large Margaritaville machine works nicely..... the saw will wait patiently until called upon for wood chewing.
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East of Mack and far right of next big slough....got it.
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MrHodja
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Ditto...
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4/12/2011 11:07:38 AM
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As soon as Cat finishes tuning the outboard and I get it up there, our tan Tahoe 'toon will be tied up at the dock.
Visit my place and you'll reminisce about the way cabins used to be on the lake....:>)
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Are you only there on weekends? I plan to do some cruising tomorrow and Thursday.....may do a surprise inspection on LNG's garden while I'm out.
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MrHodja
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Ditto...
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4/12/2011 7:10:20 PM
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You have mail.
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got it....see ya soon.
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