I believe it was $5,000, the pictures don't do it justice, it was massive and the hill it was on was extremely steep. We managed to get it done in a day by some miracle and it went pretty well.

I think you'll enjoy that 500i, we run 25" bars on ours and have close to 0 problems with them

Thanks DS.
I’m thinking sometimes our contractor probably just doesn’t want the job and jacks the price.
It usually shocks people when they find out how much it can be to remove a tree.