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What should you quote for a tree job?

Where the tree stands changes the price more than how big it is. This works out the risk loading, what the debris actually costs to get rid of, and the insurance you’re carrying on every job whether you price it or not.

The job

Pre-filled with a mature removal near a house. Change what’s different.

What are you doing?
Where does it stand?This moves the price more than the tree’s size does
Crew on siteThree is the usual minimum on a removal
Days, before the risk loadingHow long it’d take in an open field
Crane or lift neededHired in for the day

Getting rid of it

The part that gets quoted at zero and costs a day’s profit.

Debris to shiftChip and log, in cubic yards
yd³
Tip fee per yard
$
Day rate per person
$
Kit for the dayChipper, saws, ropes, truck — wear and fuel
$
Crane hire, per day
$
Margin you want
%
 

 

InsuranceLiability and workers’ comp — the bill nobody puts in a quote  
What you pay a yearAll of it — liability, comp, equipment cover
$
Jobs you do in a year

OverheadsYard, van, fuel, phone, admin — everything you pay whether or not you work  
Everything you pay monthlyNot wages, tip fees or insurance
$
Jobs you do in a month
Winning the workAds, leads, and the quotes you climbed for and lost  
Spent a month getting work
$
Quotes you send in a month
How many you winOut of every hundred
%

Tree job — quote breakdown

What it costs
The job

The quote is the whole conversation

You climbed it, you priced it, and now you own the number.

Nobody re-prices a tree halfway through. Everything that decides whether this job made money — the access, the rigging, the yards of chip, the insurance — is settled before the saw comes out of the truck.

  • Photos of the tree and the drop zone attached to the quote, so nobody argues later
  • Risk and disposal as named lines, not swallowed into one number
  • Deposit taken when they accept, before you hire the crane
  • Extra work priced as a change on the same job, not a favour from the bucket
  • Quote becomes job becomes invoice — nothing retyped at nine at night
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