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[151949]

When we were in our 30's and built our first home we did all the clearing and landscaping ourselves. An awful lot of backbreaking work!! Our lot backed up to a wooded area that was not owned by anyone and just as all our neighbors had done - we expanded our yard back as far as we could into those woods.We had 1/4 acre lots and the expansion was about 50 % of that so nice big lots, that could never be built on because it was at the bottom of a huge cliff. Now we live where the yards are very small, the neighbors way too close but all the landscape work is done for us.We really miss our big yard but not the labor to maintain it.

[Mominohio]

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@SahmIam wrote:

@Mominohio  I hear ya. I look at a home that has beautiful landscaping and all is see is $$$$$ and lots of time. 

Costing us $15,000 for these trees to come down, grind the stumps and haul it all away. Will take almost a month. *sigh*

It is what it is.

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@SahmIam

I can tell you after coming out the other side, it will be worth it!

The mess will be bad for awhile. 

We contracted the various stages with different companies ( it was cheaper that way) and we had several weeks wait between each stage (take down and grinding one day, wait couple of weeks to get logs picked up, then a couple of weeks more to get gridings cleaned up and top soil brought in, plus I had looked at the stumps as we worked ourselves for three years!!!).

Be prepared for a huge mess at first. Even though I had seem where people got trees removed and the stumps ground before, doing so many is really a huge mess. 

If you are lucky enough for the work to all be completed very close together, you won't notice the enormity of the mess so much, as you will get it done in such short order. 

Ours was compounded by the long wait between each step but we saved a ton of money doing it that way. You pay one way or another! LOL

[Mominohio]

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@country gal wrote:

WOW! Guess I should kiss my tree guy...he is kinda cute. I hired him for the first time 2 years ago to take down a dead Bradford Pear in our yard and he only charged us $300.00. A friend of my DH chained sawed it up and he & I stacked it and cleaned up the mess. It was hard work, for sure. 

This year I had the tree man come back to drop several  dead trees along the edge of our lawn where it meets the woods. He only charged me $250.00 a tree because there were several and he had a crew of 2 other men with him.

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@country gal

Wow! I want to meet (and maybe marry! LOL) your tree guy! 

[Katcat1]

I would like variety.  One section would have one variety of plant and another section another.  At least 2 or 3 varieties.  And, make them maintenance free.

[shaggygirl]

$3,500 plus tax for 2 sky high and full oak trees that are to be taken down this late Sept. or early Oct. That includes hauling it all off and leaving the back yard looking clean. To do the stumps would be another $1,000. This used to be a triple tree, as in one monster stump that split into 3 trees. One was cut down years ago and that stump looks all rotty which scares me not knowing if the rot after all these years is affecting the other two since all are connected. All together it's one gigantic 3 part stump. I'm going to be afraid to watch when they start way up at the top. And I'm going to be scared the yard will sink when they start trucking those loads out from the back yard down the side to the street. Oh Lordy.

Probably going to save me some $$ on the fall yard clean-ups and gutter clean outs. Oak trees are disgusting. When it's not leaves coming down in the fall it's other cruddy stuff they shed in the spring. But then my neighbor on one side has about 14 big trees and the wind always seems to blow them over my way and they land in my yard.

[ccassaday]

We planted a hydranga tree today.

[ScrapHappy]

My husband did all the landscaping on our house in California.  Front and back.  And our property was large.  Took him 2-3 years.  But, it paid off.  When we sold our house, the guy who did our home assessment said the landscaping was beautiful and added $25,000 to $30,000 to the property.

[kitty60]

When we purchased our house there was about an acre fenced in the backyard with a small amount of grass and lots of trees. We began thinning them over the next few years and finally in 2016 we took the remaining ones down to finish our yard to put in a pool and patio and had to contract for about 8 of them because they were either too big or close to the house.  We were lucky it only cost us about $1,000 because we had friends who wanted the wood and the rest we were able to burn.  Tht first year we had someone come in to do minimal landscaping.  Believe me, a cheap job is not worth it!  Last year we had someone design  a yard that would be low maintenance and had him do it.  He and a crew of 5 worked about 8 days but it was worth it.  This year was the first year in 12 years I actually felt we were making progress.  We decided to have the remaining 15 acres cleaned up.  Thank goodness we have enough wood that we contracted with a logger and he has been cutting and hauling for the past four to five weeks.  Hopefully he will be done next week.  We still have alot of hardwoods he has left enough pine to provide seedlings and they will all grow and be healthier now.  I was afraid at first it would look bare but there were so many trees it has opened up the area and doens't look overgrown.  The best part, he pays us to take them!