Looking for guidance on what felling this tree and prepping for a mill should cost approximately. Also would appreciate any suggestions for someone in the Houston area. I'm looking for rough ideas, is this a $500, $1000, $2500, $5000 job? We'll burn the scrap here on the place, so it would just be for the felling and trimming for the mill.
You can see from the pics, this thing is pretty big. 50-60ft span and with a base that is maybe a 4x6ft oval. It's been ailing for a bit and last year it still budded out a light leaf cover, but it lost them early and I'm not holding out a bunch of hope for it.
Normally, for everyday maintenance of his place and typical trees, my dad and I would simply get out the chainsaws and tractor and get after it. But in this case we're going to need professionals. I realize that I'm sort of asking how long is a piece of string, but I'd to get a rough idea from the WB crowd on what they think so I can use it to weed out the guys who are clearly too low (maybe not experienced enough) and maybe weight the higher bids a bit.
We'd like to ultimately get it milled, so any advice on what to watch out for there also appreciated. I've taken a couple of smaller (relatively) pecan logs to a local guy who charged by the bf, but this is a whole other animal, so I'm happy to admit I'm completely out of my depth here.
Also, for a trunk of this size, any suggestions on what to do with it in terms of cutting it up? While it looks mostly solid, there is potentially some hollow section on the top and lower left, but it's not really open enough to see up into it, I'm just going from what I can see easily.
Thanks,
Mike
You can see from the pics, this thing is pretty big. 50-60ft span and with a base that is maybe a 4x6ft oval. It's been ailing for a bit and last year it still budded out a light leaf cover, but it lost them early and I'm not holding out a bunch of hope for it.
Normally, for everyday maintenance of his place and typical trees, my dad and I would simply get out the chainsaws and tractor and get after it. But in this case we're going to need professionals. I realize that I'm sort of asking how long is a piece of string, but I'd to get a rough idea from the WB crowd on what they think so I can use it to weed out the guys who are clearly too low (maybe not experienced enough) and maybe weight the higher bids a bit.
We'd like to ultimately get it milled, so any advice on what to watch out for there also appreciated. I've taken a couple of smaller (relatively) pecan logs to a local guy who charged by the bf, but this is a whole other animal, so I'm happy to admit I'm completely out of my depth here.
Also, for a trunk of this size, any suggestions on what to do with it in terms of cutting it up? While it looks mostly solid, there is potentially some hollow section on the top and lower left, but it's not really open enough to see up into it, I'm just going from what I can see easily.
Thanks,
Mike
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