There are 3 main components that factor in the determination of what a service costs.
Quality
Service
Price
As a rule, when you are seeking the best quality, the best service and the best price, it doesn’t exist. Experience proves you can only choose two of the three. You get what you pay for. The best quality with the best service is at a premium price. If you are buying the lowest priced item you naturally expect it not to perform well.
But, if you can get something of High Quality from a high volume seller, a whole-seller, or warehouse seller, you know the price drops due to a volume discount. So unless you are participating in a planned tree service event to improve the neighborhood trees, you are likely to pay the retail costs for tree work.
When You Hire a Business to Do Your Tree Work You Are Paying for Their Whole Business Structure.
You will be paying for their office staff Blue costs, and the skills and efficiency of their on site crew personnel. Some tree companies are top heavy, meaning far too many people need to be paid by the work performed. Other tree companies are streamlined with minimal people to complete all of the work. As your budget allows, you can choose to pay for full-service or choose only to get the RED risky technical work done by professionals and get friends and family to help you with the rest.
See the following chart:
Blue contains all of the support tasks, objectives and goals. You pay for business structure every time you hire a business.
Green contains all of the tree service tasks that a healthy home owner could perform. This is the most common area you can save money.
Yellow contains tree service tasks that need some strength and chainsaw skills, trailer, pickup truck, etc
Red contains the activities that require some real expertise, especially if buildings, power-lines, septic systems, or other valuable structures are nearby.
