5 mins? Must have been one heck of a small tree. A tree trimmer took out the 80 foot tree behind our house two years ago. Harnessed up in about 5 mins, but it took him about 6 hours to take the tree all the way down. And he was working non-stop.
Yes, it was a small spindly tree. Wasn’t even 30ftt high, no limbs. I don’t know what type of tree, but all branches grew up against tree.
I felt bad for the homeowners, because what was done was all for show.
Having a tree climber to cut down trees is a beautiful thing, but don’t use it to gauge a client.
The tree wasn’t thick enough to damage anything, if it was cut off at ground level.
I am a carpenter...I thought it was a bit of theatre to charge more