Dear All,
I am in need of a reasonably priced Tree-cutting - hedge-cutting service that is either situated in 19510 Meilhards region or one that covers that region, please.
Can some of you good people on this site recommend a few Tree Surgeons who can speak English as well as do the Tree-cutting and trimming for me at a reasonable price, please?
Please advise as soon as possible.
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Hello Shotoman and welcome to SF. Sorry, I can’t offer any recommendation, but sadly from our experience “reasonably priced” and “tree surgeon” don’t go together! They have to pay pretty hefty insurance premiums and it’s a skilled job that tends to be reflected in their price. Resist anyone cheap - they won’t know what they are doing, as friends of ours discovered when the lad up the tree chain-sawed his leg!!!
Also, you might want to remove your email. People can PM you, or just post here. This is an open forum and you’re liable to get spam. Good luck with finding what you need.
Oh and by the way, if the tree surgeon doesn’t speak English, try using Deepl translation app to put some phrases together, so you can explain what you want.
Have you asked neighbours or at the Mairie for suggestions/recommendations?
I’d second that…it’s a potentially dangerous role for them…I was comparing notes with our tree surgeon who saw I was wearing a surgical corset and commented that he’d fallen out of a tree, despite wearing full safety gear (so he said!). Net result, he had had to wear a full corset for 9 months, plus 6 more months just to recover his strength…I don’t begrudge them their high costs, to cover training, safety gear, insurance etc.
The genuine saftey lines and attachments are expensive and need changing so never going to be a low cost operation. My gear cost less than employing a tree surgeon but its physically tiring work and not for the faint hearted. I have some 60ft trees overhanging the neighbours and there is also the removal of the timber so thats for a pro, I am never going higher than the photo.
Thank you so much for your very useful advice.
I appreciate it.
Ditto the above - as in most professions (but especially those that involve sharp tools and heights), worth paying for an expert.
First though, you have to find your reasonably-priced trees. 
You could look at https://www.elagueurs-grimpeurs.com.
What do you consider to be a reasonable price? My experience of tree surgeons is that they don’t come cheap due to the nature of the work they do, especially if it is aerial.
There’s that English tree surgeon chap who helps out the DIY Dan guy on YouTube. The chateau is in the Corrèze, I believe.
My wife gets “concerned” when I climb up trees in my harness, helmet and chainsaw, so I have had to reign it in a little. Still looking at the handy Petzl arresters that the guys subcontracted by Enedis use though.
EDIT: this is what I’m looking at, they’re not really arresters, just specialised Prusik devices, but you really need two of them to be effective (and save your arm muscles).
Creuse I think. Chateau de Chaumont:
Thanks for the correction ! My wife is an avid follower of Dan, which is the only reason I know he has had a tree surgeon person come and help him.
Yes the extraordinarily tattooed and pierced Nick, and his son Cameron! I don’t think his last name has ever been mentioned on the show.
Ah yes the zig zag decenders. I was old school with a blakes hitch and with spikes and a flip line.
I know every job is different but it would be interesting to hear what people paid a professional tree surgeon to fell a tree and perhaps cut it into logs.
I was quoted €2500 hence why I diy’d
I have a vague recollection of paying 300 EUR ex VAT about 13 years ago to chop down/up a fairly tall fir tree. As there was no room to simply fell it without it hitting something, he had to climb up the trunk to limb it, and then chop it into sections from the top down. He also did some smaller stuff for me on the same day, but most of the day was taken up with the fir.
You could try this.
We paid 300€ on two occasions earlier this year for separate fellings of 2 tall birches…We didn’t want or need the logs but they would have happily chopped them up for us if needed at no extra cost.
We paid more than that 15 years ago just for pollarding the large linden tree.
