I’ve been doing that for 43 years as I’m an arborist.

Pre-Covid I had 4 50’ tall pine trees dropped on my property and cut up in 18” pieces for $900 cash. I had same company come back early spring to quote taking 2 more down and trimming a huge maple on my property quote came in at $7200. I went to Home Depot and for $422 and a days work i took care of it all myself or atleast I got everything on the ground!

tree business is a high overhead business new bucket is $250,000 new chipper $130,000 chip truck 125,000 stump grinder 100,000 insrance payroll repairs taxes yada yada yada going rate where i live we try to get 2,500-3,000 a day with 3-4 man crew not alot left on the bone at the end of the day my blue cross health insurance just went up 11,000 for the year 61,000 for me ,my wife, my son, and 2 employees so you can understand the high prices.