Yeah hey hi howdy hola y'all. My backyard has a tree that's losing the long term war to gravity and I figure it's probably best to go with the pros for this (before that poor fence completely goes) --- so does anyone here have/know-of a tree guy who's good for this sort of thing?

I'm in the Skokie/morton-grove/Niles area if that factors in, as idk if you ideally need someone local/ish for this sort of thing (#BraveNewWorld for me)

Thanks!

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Similar situation for me. I'm just going to wait until this bad boy falls down and crushes my house. Its a huge old maple and I don't even want to know how much to bring it down. I'm guessing several thousand dollars.

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Move.

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i know this lady, late 50's, pushing 60 (over 60 now). owned the business my gf worked at, but she's cool so they had fun all the time. she was divorced or otherwise single, adult children. met this guy, Kirk. Kirk was about a year older than her, similarly divorced with adult children.

Mary and Kirk hit it off and quickly moved into together (even tho she had her own house, she just stayed at his all the time). They'd do all kinds of weird outdoor activities together, like snowshoe walking (which is way more work than anyone should even think about doing) or trapping small animals for their fur. She'd post lovey-dovey pics of the two of them on her facebook, smooching over the eviscerated carcass of a furry woodland creature etc. She was in L U V love.

They'd been going together for a couple years at this point. No talk of marriage, they'd both likely had their fill of legal-bondage. But they were inseparable. One weekend, they're planning to go visit his adult son a couple hours away for the weekend. Well, Mary has to do some work at her business Saturday AM; so she tells Kirk to go on down ahead of her Friday afternoon and she'll join him the next day.

Kirks gets down to his son's house. It's late June. Son has some trees that took some lightning and had half-broken branches dangling precariously. Well, Kirk being an outdoorsy sort, gets a chainsaw, climbs up the tree with the chainsaw to trim up the rogue branches....and falls out of the tree mid-chainsawing. Chainsaw falls on Kirk, chops him up good. He dead.

tl;dr: you should cowboy-up, get a chainsaw and trim your own damn trees.

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lol yeah i figured it was a longshot, but i just ended up going with a local joint that's got 20 glorious reviews on homeadvisor.com and they'll be over to estimate it either today or tomorrow. i just figured that someone hanging out here during their workday might have recently had to deal with something like this so they'd be able to vouch for someone as opposed to "letting my fingers do the walking (to the nearest place that seems to have at least paid enough ppl to go on homeadvisor and give it 5 star reviews =)"

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if it's near any powerlines, you might be able to get the electric company to take it down for you. i had some trees on my farm that had grown too close to the power lines; electric company came out with a big ol cherry-picker truck and and crew, cut em down, even sectioned up the trunks and branches for me a bit.

One of my clients lives in River Forest and had a big maple that needed to come down. He had a woodworker friend who paid to have the tree cut down in exchange for the wood. The tree yielded so much wood that he made my client a full dining room set with some of the wood (which had to dry out for a couple of years before it could be used).

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My tip is to hire a millennial female crew. I hear 95% of them trim shrub down to the nub.

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Without dessicants, those clothes will be noticeably musty in 3-5 years!

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Those must have been the days... Now asplund has what has to be a monopoly on cutting all trees near utility lines....and its not really cutting...its more like they bonzai the fuck out of it. Their is no way in hell that contract is kosher.

Now my parents did have one of their trees removed for free by the township road department. They claimed it was in the easement...which it really wasn't. No complaints by my parents though as it was free. I'm sure their boys needed work and they sold the trunk so everyone won.

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No one will go out on a limb and suggest a guy for Sini? Should he branch out a little?

it was this spring. the trees were a good 20 yards onto my property. tree were brushing near what i think is called the service drop line; running from the electric company's high-power transmission lines to the on site transformer pole doohicky; and then distributed to the various buildings from there. So we can easily patch in a diesel generator when we lose power out in the boonies. which happens way too often.

out in BFE they still have 'Electric Cooperatives'--which I think means ostensibly customer owned? Milo Minderbinder style, everyone has a share? Yeah, they came out with a utility company branded truck with a bucket arm extension, pulling a wood chipper behind it. i had to sign paperwork but i think that was just for liability release. i should check my line-item electric bill. maybe they did charge me. huh.

My guy is in the western burbs.

Almost as far as Peoria.

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Get bids. Between work and home I have had to take down several trees. Each time the bids came in several hundred dollars apart for the exact same job.

For example I had an ash tree in my back yard, maybe 25 feet tall, that had to go. Bids ranged from $150 to $1,200. I went with the $150 guy. He did a perfectly good job.

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For $150!you can get some climber attachments and a chainsaw.

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This. You're gonna get raped in labor by a tree company. They don't like doing non-insurance work. Their bids generally reflect this.

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