Michael Perry is a Wisconsin author who writes about his life in North Western Wisconsin, including the years he spent on the local fire department rescue squad. In one book he talked about taking a tree like this down and enlisting his brother's help, his brother was a logger. His explanation for waiting until his brother could help....I've been on a lot of fire rescue calls where the last idea a person had was "Gee I'll cut that tree down now", turned out to be a not so good of an idea.
It seems like a lot of money but remember you're renting their time, their equipment (with no responsibility for damage) and paying their liability and workman's comp insurance. Wouldn't be surprised if their insurance costs are 30-40 percent of your cost. You can probably find ways to get it done cheaper, like no insurance but if you elect to go that route understand the risk you're assuming if the drop a tree on a building or car or someone gets hurt, maybe permanently.
I paid similar rates to have some large maple trees removed from the grounds of one of the buildings I used to care for. It was a government owned building so I had to have the insurance and use the lowest responsible proposal. The folks I used already had the logs marketed, most went to a pulp mill but two went to a veneer plant.
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