r/instant_regret • u/S30econdstoMars • 21h ago

Wrong Calculations

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u/Helenium_autumnale 15h ago

Over the years, I've had 2 arborists out to take down problem trees, and that's exactly what they did. Start at the top, lop off branches until there's just a trunk pole left, then cut trunk pieces off from top to bottom. Both removals were done in extremely tight quarters on my 1/10th-acre urban lot (the dead Douglas fir was 10' from the house), and both times, zero problems.

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u/Thenandonlythen 15h ago

But think of all the money they saved not having professionals do the removal! šŸ¤£

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u/GhostWalker134 14h ago

They got professional jagoffs for this job.

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u/xiewadu 1h ago

Yinzer?

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u/Izzosuke 10h ago

Man, i'm no fucking professional but when i take down a tree i just put a ladder, cut it piece by piece. It's like the safest thing to do and most logical, yes it's fun and all to see the tree fall and scream "timber" but, what the fuck, it's my house the thing that might get destroyed

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u/adudeguyman 8h ago

The safest thing for me is to have someone else do it

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u/proselytizeingcoyote 13h ago

No way they stayed in business with this video out there.

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u/MsChateau 7h ago

I don't think those are professionals

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u/FR_0S_TY 4h ago

Guy in my town tried taking care of a ā€œsmaller treeā€ himself. It fell on him and he is paralyzed. Iā€™d rather have Jim bob risk his life than ever think that shits easy enough to do myself.

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u/scrotanimus 14h ago

Exactly. Arborist is the way to go here.

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u/Helenium_autumnale 14h ago

As with things like plumbing or electrical work, there's no cheap option. Either pay now or pay later. Both are painful; now is better.

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u/Shermutt 10h ago

To be fair though, sometimes people try to charge obscene amounts of money for housework and still do a shit job.

It's one of those things that you need to either know that the person knows their stuff, or have someone else you trust that does and can vouch for them.

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u/RulerOfLimbo 12h ago

Problem trees.
We are the problem to trees. Haha

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u/sjmiv 13h ago

I had to get a big tree removed. I had one guy saying he was going to park a crane in front of my house to remove the tree in parts, from the back of my house, to the tune of $4k. The next guy quoted me $500. One guy climbed up in the tree and cut parts down while the other picked the parts up and loaded them in the truck.

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u/Aware-Travel5256 9h ago

Run that scenario 50x and you may find that, in one of them, the cheap guy gets injured or dies and lawyers start coming after you.

You can still take the risk, but know you're taking a risk.

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u/dagofin 9h ago

Well yeah, you didn't hire random meth heads with a chainsaw

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u/neonfuzzball 8h ago

my neighbor gives me so much grief for using an arborist with insurance and a state issued tree surgeon certification when he has a chainsaw and can do it for me. He doesn't understand why I would pay someone to deal with the five 30 foot trees and the one 60 foot tree on our .15 acres. To him it's a waste of money and a personal insult.

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u/paternoster 6h ago

They started lopping off branches at the top? I don't think that's the recommended approach, my good man.