Choosing a Tree Service Contractor: How We Scope and Price a Job

What our quote includes

Two lines tend to sit outside the cut itself: the stump and the hauling. Full stump extraction runs $90 to $125. Hauling and disposal, when it isn't folded into the removal price, runs $20 to $90. Our written quote lists each as its own line. It says whether the stump goes or stays and whether the wood leaves the property or stays stacked on the lawn, so the total never hides a different job.

If you'd rather keep the rounds for firewood, tell us and we'll quote it without the hauling line. Those ranges are what we quote on the phone. The final figure is set once we've stood under the tree and looked at the site.

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How we take a tree down

Before anything falls, we look at the tree's lean, how much weight is in the crown, what the wind is doing and what's standing near it. On a tight lot, that planning is most of what separates a clean job from a flattened fence.

Big limbs come off in stages. We cut underneath first so the bark doesn't tear down the trunk, take most of the branch off with a cut farther out, then finish just outside the branch collar. It's slower than one pass through, but the wood lands where we planned.

The wood chipper and the stump grinder run with their guards on and the emergency stops working. Nobody stands at the chipper's in-feed chute, and material never goes in by hand or foot, however small the piece looks.

Timing around the Wichita freeze

Wichita's typical last spring freeze falls in early to mid-April, and the first fall freeze usually arrives from late October into early November. We plan outdoor work with those dates in mind, so scheduled trimming and removals go most easily in the stretch between them, roughly mid-April through October.

A limb split and hanging over a roof, or a trunk that shifted in a storm, doesn't wait on the calendar. Those get moved up in the schedule whatever the month, based on what's underneath them. A tree you're just thinking about can wait for spring if it's late in the fall, since the freeze dates are what set the booking window.