We paid nothing by banning together with neighbors and breaking out chainsaws...any chance of that happening? OR is the tree in a precarious position???
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Posts: 3214 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003
It was about 150 years old and you couldn't get even two peoples arms around the trunk, not sure if three could either. What I was hoping to find out is what the going rate for tree removal was in town, ours is gone now.
Gotcha. I was just asking 'cause we'd break out the chainsaw to come over and help!
However, I know to remove a LIVE tree of the size you seem to have would be in the $2,500 area. Laying on the ground might make it less since no one has to climb up to dangerous heights. I'd bet you could find someone to do it for about $1,000. IF my guess about the overall size of it is right.
Good luck to you. We will have to get one or two trees removed too...they were badly damaged.
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " -Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Posts: 3214 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003
We got a pretty large tree removed this summer for $500. We asked the guys trimming trees for Comed...they came by the next Saturday- This was much less than we paid for smaller tree removal at our old house so we thought we were very lucky...and we figured these guys wouldn't mind that this tree was between the power lines and our house.
Posts: 790 | Location: glen ellyn Illinois usa | Registered: April 05, 2003
Is the tree on your property or the parkway? Parkway = village's dime.
Our willow had to be removed three years ago after an ice storm dropped some of it on my van
The girth was 12.5 feet, was somewhat inaccessable, and came in at $800 for everything, including stump grinding. We called three places, had two estimates. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the company that handled it.
EDIT: If you have a tree stump ground out, you must call the Village first; they'll mark any underground utilities. Sounds silly, but our one experience with the Willow proved there was a live utility box buried 3 feet from the tree. That came as a surprise. A previous owner apparently planned but never began building another home on our vacant side lot.
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You might be able to get insurance to pay for it since DuPage county was declared a state disaster area and I know that our Representative Peter Roskam is trying to see if any there is anything he can do Federally. I emailed the village to get a better understanding on what being a state disaster area means and like always haven't heard anything back yet from them.
will keep you posted if I hear anything.
Posts: 16 | Location: North Glen Ellyn south of Geneva | Registered: August 28, 2007
