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Tree work pricing estimator for Winston-Salem

Pick the job, set the size, say how hard the tree is to reach, and the tool returns a working range. The ranges come from local market pricing. They are not a quote: the price that binds anybody is the written one, produced after a crew has stood in the yard.

A two-storey house is roughly 25 feet to the eaves, so a tree half again as tall as the roof is around 40 feet.

Access moves the price further than anything else once height is known. A tree that has to be climbed and rigged down piece by piece takes several times as long as one that can be felled.

Anything that changes the job

Planning range

$1,700 to $3,800

60 foot tree, ordinary access

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These ranges cover the work itself: crew, equipment, rigging, and the cleanup that goes with them. They do not cover a crane brought in for a tree too large or too decayed to climb, which is billed by the hour on top and sits in its own category. They also do not cover repairing a lawn a machine has rutted, or replacing anything the tree was standing on.

Height sets the bracket and access decides where inside it a job lands. That is not a hedge, it is the actual arithmetic of the trade: a crew that can back a truck under a tree and drop it works in a fraction of the time a climber takes to dismantle the same tree from the top over a roof.

Condition is the variable people leave out. Sound wood can be climbed and dead wood cannot, so a tree that has been standing dead for two seasons is a more expensive removal than the same tree would have been alive. Waiting on a declining tree does not save money.

The full cost guide breaks each of these down, and the main guide covers what happens before anything is priced.

Price brackets for common tree jobs in this market A horizontal range chart. One stump, ground out: $100 to $450. Small tree, under 30 ft: $250 to $700. Pruning a mid-sized tree: $400 to $1,000. Tree 30 to 60 ft: $700 to $1,700. Pruning a large mature oak: $900 to $2,200. Tree 60 to 80 ft: $1,700 to $3,800. Tree over 80 ft: $3,800 to $8,000. Price brackets, smallest job to largest $500 $2,000 $4,500 $8,000 One stump, ground out $100 to $450 Small tree, under 30 ft $250 to $700 Pruning a mid-sized tree $400 to $1,000 Tree 30 to 60 ft $700 to $1,700 Pruning a large mature oak $900 to $2,200 Tree 60 to 80 ft $1,700 to $3,800 Tree over 80 ft $3,800 to $8,000 Crane work, wire in the trunk, and no equipment route all sit above these brackets rather than inside them.
Planning brackets for tree work on Piedmont properties. Height sets the bracket, and access decides where inside it a job lands: the same eighty-foot oak costs very differently standing alone in a back field and standing over a roof with a fence between it and the road. The scale is compressed so small and large jobs fit on one chart. Only a written quote after somebody has walked the property is a price.

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