How much does it cost to remove a tulip poplar?
Removing a tulip poplar around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Indiana's state tree and usually the tallest thing standing on a central-Indiana lot, which is exactly why it ends up on a quote. It holds its lowest limbs high and carries most of its weight above 50 ft, so a tree 60 ft from the house still reaches the roof and nothing on it can be worked from the ground.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Commonly 70 to 100 ft tall with a 30 to 50 ft spread in an open yard, and capable of living 200 years or more, so the tree being quoted is usually nowhere near finished. That height on a single straight heavy stem pushes most mature removals into the crane or technical-rigging bracket rather than bucket-truck work, especially in a fenced back yard with no drive access.
Condition changes the price
Rated intermediate for ice-storm susceptibility, so it is not the first species on the ground after a quarter-inch event — but when it does fail, it fails large, because a limb breaking 70 ft up is several hundred pounds with a long drop. In central Indiana the bigger wind risk is whole-tree lean or uprooting, since a shallow root plate in saturated clay after several days of rain has very little left to hold.
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