treelooker
Treehouser
Remove or Retain? Keep or Kill? I'm doing ta cost/benefit analysis involved in these decisions, on street trees for instance. So far it looks like pruning a tree is 68 times cheaper than replacing it.
In very general numbers. if it cost $500 to prune a mature tree, and it needs pruning again in 10 years, pruning costs $50 or 5000 pennies per year.
The branches cover a circle that is 80 feet wide, roughly 5000 square feet of canopy per tree.That comes out to an expense of 1 penny per square foot of canopy per year to retain the tree.
It might cost $2,500 to remove the tree, dispose of the debris, and grind the stump.
A new tree might cost $500 to put in, and grow at a rate of one foot per year. It would need water and mulch and fertilizing and weeding and pruning for 40 years, at maybe $10/year, or $400. That is a total of $3400, or $340,000 pennies to put back that 5000 square feet of canopy. That comes out to 68 pennies per square foot of canopy.
Then we would have to add in the cost of the loss in contributions for the 40 years without the canopy, and the cost of the use of the money it takes to replace it.
Does this seem close?
Did I forget anything?
In very general numbers. if it cost $500 to prune a mature tree, and it needs pruning again in 10 years, pruning costs $50 or 5000 pennies per year.
The branches cover a circle that is 80 feet wide, roughly 5000 square feet of canopy per tree.That comes out to an expense of 1 penny per square foot of canopy per year to retain the tree.
It might cost $2,500 to remove the tree, dispose of the debris, and grind the stump.
A new tree might cost $500 to put in, and grow at a rate of one foot per year. It would need water and mulch and fertilizing and weeding and pruning for 40 years, at maybe $10/year, or $400. That is a total of $3400, or $340,000 pennies to put back that 5000 square feet of canopy. That comes out to 68 pennies per square foot of canopy.
Then we would have to add in the cost of the loss in contributions for the 40 years without the canopy, and the cost of the use of the money it takes to replace it.
Does this seem close?
Did I forget anything?