Nobody can give you a honest number for tree removal without seeing the tree. What we can do is explain what drives the price so you know why two quotes on the same street are not the same job. KAP Tree Service prices tree removal in Davie, FL from the ground, not from a photo you text at night.
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Size, species and wood
A 20-foot queen palm and a 60-foot live oak are not in the same category. Height, trunk diameter, and how much wood has to be cut, stacked, and hauled all change the crew time. Dense hardwood takes longer than a palm. A palm is often a climb, a drop, and a chipper. An oak over a roof is a rigging job.
Dead trees can be easier or harder. Dry, brittle wood breaks wrong. A hollow trunk can fail while someone is in it. We price that risk when we see it, not as a scare line on the phone.
Access and what sits under the tree
The same oak in an open back corner of a ranch lot is a different day than the same oak between a pool cage, a screen enclosure, and the neighbor’s slab. If we can get a chipper to the trunk, the wood leaves as chips. If we cannot, we carry rounds by hand or crane them. Cranes are not a default. They show up when the fall zone is a house and there is room to set the outriggers.
Driveway pavers, septic lids, and low lines matter. Tell us about gates, HOA access hours, and whether the neighbor will let us open a fence. Work in Weston often adds HOA notice on top of the physical access.
Permits are not the crew’s fee
Davie, Cooper City, and the other Broward towns run their own tree permits. The Town’s fee is paid to the Town. Our estimate is the labor, equipment, hauling, and stump work you asked for. We do not bury a permit charge as a mystery line, and we do not issue the permit. If the job needs one, get it before the saws come out. The permit post on this blog walks through Davie’s process without inventing diameters or fines.
What is usually separate
Stump grinding is often its own line. Hauling the wood is sometimes included and sometimes not — ask. After-hours storm work, if we can staff it, is not the same rate as a Tuesday morning oak. We do not advertise a 24-hour crew we cannot staff. Crane, traffic control, and extra dump runs show up when the site needs them.
A cheap number that leaves the wood, the stump, and the permit to you is not cheaper. Read the scope. If you want a sense of whether the tree should come down at all, read whether you need a Davie tree-removal permit first.
How we quote
We look at the tree, take photos, and give you a written price for a defined scope: take down, haul, grind or not, debris gone or stacked. You get that before work starts. We will not put a dollar figure on this page because it would be a guess, and a guess is how people get surprised. Call, send a clear photo of the whole tree and the landing zone, and we will tell you whether we need to walk it or can price from there.
Quotes that do not match
If one company is half the other, they are not bidding the same tree. One is leaving the wood. One is not grinding. One is assuming a drop into the lot next door that you do not have permission to use. Ask each of them to put haul-off and stump on their own lines so you can compare.
A “per tree” special on a flyer is not a bid. Palms in a row can be a better unit price than one oak. Mixed species on one lot should be itemized. If they will not walk the yard, they are not bidding the cage, the spa, or the low wire.
We would rather lose a bid than take a job we priced as an open drop and then have to rig for four extra hours. That is how crews get sloppy. Ask how many people are coming. A two-person crew on a large oak over a house is a long day.
Bring the permit, the HOA email, and a photo of the landing zone to the walk-through. Those three things change more quotes than the species does. If we cannot see the back side of the tree from the street, we will come through the gate. A bid from the curb on a tree that sits over a spa is not a bid.
We will not put a dollar figure on this page. The range on your street depends on the tree in front of us that morning. Call and we will look.
Call KAP Tree Service at (754) 291-6477 for a free estimate
