How much does it cost to remove a shagbark hickory?
Removing a shagbark hickory around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Almost nobody plants shagbark — the ones standing in central-Indiana yards are woodlot remnants left when the subdivision went in, and that is precisely why they are in trouble. It is a structurally excellent tree that cannot tolerate having its root zone graded, compacted, or paved, and the resulting decline typically shows up 5 to 15 years after the house was built, not the year after.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Roughly 70 to 90 ft tall with a 50 to 70 ft spread and a realistic lifespan of 200 to 300 years, so a sound one is a keep-it tree rather than a remove-it tree. When one does come down, dense heavy wood plus a wide spread pushes it into the upper cost bracket, and the debris and chip volume runs high for the trunk diameter.
Condition changes the price
Among the most ice-resistant species in the standard urban susceptibility tables, alongside the other hickories, and it holds loads that shear black cherry and cottonwood outright. Its wind and ice failures are almost always confined to limbs already killed by bark beetles or hollowed by decay behind old topping cuts, not to sound wood.
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