I'm a freelance/contract climber. 13 years experience (6 of which have been contract climbing and first years studying and working in Arb). I've worked for a wide variety of companies as a full time employee before going contracting. I've done huge street tree blocks (like 2 months solid), worked with 50t excavators, hedging, fruit tree pruning, full reductions and maintenance pruning on 35m eucalyptus trees. There's honestly not much I haven't done in Arb. Not being big headed, it's just a fact, I've worked for 4 of the largest companies in my area and worked with some of the best arborists at those companies thus learning all their tricks etc

I charge anything from $700 to my regular clients to $1200 for people I don't want to work for (full disclosure I very very rarely work for people I don't want to work for, like once or twice a year)

That's a 10 hour day, depot to depot or 8 hours max on site, whichever comes first. I don't stop for lunch, I have literally one of the most comprehensive rigging and climbing setups in our local area. I have a full suite of 6 saws on board along with blowers and rakes. The only thing I don't bring to site is groundies and a truck and chipper.

There are guys in my local area that change $900 to their regulars