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    {
      "id": "stump-quote-report",
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      "locator": "Comment reporting an uprooted maple, cleanup and tax-inclusive amount",
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      "id": "hemlock-report",
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        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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        "cleanup": "Cleanup level affects the price",
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        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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        "Currency, tax and effective date are not explicitly stated.",
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        "hauling": "Hauling fees affect scope",
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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        "The stated upper figure is not a ceiling.",
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        "sampleSize": null
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      "historical": false,
      "scope": {
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        "treeSize": null,
        "access": null,
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": "Debris handling affects price",
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": "Cutting, mulching and stump digging may be involved"
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        "Currency, taxes and effective date are not stated.",
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      "service": "Forestry mulching",
      "evidenceType": "published-estimate-range",
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        "standardError": null,
        "sampleSize": null
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      "historical": false,
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        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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        "Currency, tax, effective date and exact finish are unknown."
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        "sampleSize": null
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        "quantity": 2,
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        "hauling": "Excluded; homeowner planned cleanup",
        "cleanup": "Homeowner planned remaining cleanup",
        "tax": "Additional; rate unknown",
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": "Climbing and sectional removal reported"
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      "summary": "A first-person quotation report for taking trees down and cutting trunks into lengths.",
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        "Not a paid invoice or independently verified quote.",
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    {
      "id": "reported-complex-removal",
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      "observedAt": "2026-10-24",
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      "price": {
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        "high": null,
        "currency": null,
        "standardError": null,
        "sampleSize": null
      },
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      "historical": true,
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        "quantity": 1,
        "treeSize": "Large/old tree; dimensions unknown",
        "access": "Tree described as leaning near a neighbouring building",
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": "Three-person crew for a day, as reported; hours unknown",
        "equipment": null
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      "summary": "A first-person report says the difficult removal was completed at a cost above the stated amount.",
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        "No invoice or independent completion verification.",
        "Tax, hauling, stump treatment, currency and exact job date are unknown."
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        "currency": null,
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        "sampleSize": null
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      "historical": true,
      "scope": {
        "quantity": null,
        "treeSize": null,
        "access": null,
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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      "summary": "A first-person report of a quoted range for future stump work.",
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        "Not completed-job evidence.",
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      "title": "Small branch-work report",
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      "price": {
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        "currency": null,
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        "sampleSize": null
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      "historical": true,
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        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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      "summary": "A public first-person comment reports branch work and an amount.",
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      "title": "Uprooted maple with hauling and cleanup",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/PEI/comments/ydcctf/comment/ituz7jl/",
      "observedAt": "2026-10-24",
      "service": "Tree removal",
      "evidenceType": "reported-completed-job",
      "price": {
        "kind": "exact",
        "low": 850,
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        "currency": null,
        "standardError": null,
        "sampleSize": null
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      "unit": "job",
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      "historical": true,
      "scope": {
        "quantity": 1,
        "treeSize": "Maple described as very large; dimensions unknown",
        "access": null,
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": "Included according to the report",
        "cleanup": "Included according to the report",
        "tax": "Included according to the report",
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
      },
      "summary": "A first-person Halifax report describes cleanup of a storm-uprooted maple.",
      "limits": [
        "No invoice or independent completion verification.",
        "Currency, stump treatment and exact job date are not stated."
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      "forecastEligible": false
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      "title": "Steep-slope hemlock quote that was not completed",
      "sourceId": "hemlock-report",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/landscaping/comments/1llowl5/comment/n030kvq/",
      "observedAt": "2026-10-24",
      "service": "Tree removal",
      "evidenceType": "reported-quote",
      "price": {
        "kind": "exact",
        "low": 100,
        "high": 100,
        "currency": "CAD",
        "standardError": null,
        "sampleSize": null
      },
      "unit": "height-foot",
      "unitLabel": "Per foot of tree height",
      "period": "2023 quotation, reported publicly later",
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        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
      },
      "summary": "A 2023 quotation report explicitly identifies Canadian dollars; the quoted contractor work did not take place.",
      "limits": [
        "The tree fell before the quoted contract was performed.",
        "Tax, hauling, stump treatment and price validity are unknown.",
        "A per-foot quotation is not a universal pricing formula."
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      "forecastEligible": false
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      "id": "beech-research-2016",
      "title": "2016 HRM dead-beech removal study",
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      "service": "Tree removal",
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        "high": null,
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      "historical": true,
      "scope": {
        "quantity": null,
        "treeSize": "Dead American beech; dimensions not recorded in the cost table",
        "access": null,
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
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      "summary": "A historical resident-survey statistic for a specific pest-affected tree cohort.",
      "limits": [
        "Mean plus/minus standard error is not a price range.",
        "Tax and full job scope are not documented in the cost table.",
        "Historical values are not inflation-adjusted or used for current forecasts."
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      "forecastEligible": false
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    {
      "id": "beech-research-2018",
      "title": "2018 HRM dead-beech removal study",
      "sourceId": "beech-study",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00046/full",
      "observedAt": "2026-10-24",
      "service": "Tree removal",
      "evidenceType": "historical-research",
      "price": {
        "kind": "mean",
        "low": 474,
        "high": null,
        "currency": "CAD",
        "standardError": 66,
        "sampleSize": 18
      },
      "unit": "tree",
      "unitLabel": "Mean cost per removed tree",
      "period": "Fall 2018 survey",
      "historical": true,
      "scope": {
        "quantity": null,
        "treeSize": "Dead American beech; dimensions not recorded in the cost table",
        "access": null,
        "stumpWork": null,
        "hauling": null,
        "cleanup": null,
        "tax": null,
        "duration": null,
        "equipment": null
      },
      "summary": "A historical resident-survey statistic for a specific pest-affected tree cohort.",
      "limits": [
        "Mean plus/minus standard error is not a price range.",
        "Tax and full job scope are not documented in the cost table.",
        "Historical values are not inflation-adjusted or used for current forecasts."
      ],
      "forecastEligible": false
    }
  ],
  "supportedEvidenceTypes": [
    "advertised-starting-price",
    "published-estimate-range",
    "reported-quote",
    "reported-completed-job",
    "invoice-supported-completed-job",
    "historical-research"
  ],
  "numericalPlannerEnabled": false,
  "comparisonToolsEnabled": true,
  "reason": "No comparable current, scope-complete completed-job cohort has been verified. Published examples and user-entered quote arithmetic are available without a market forecast.",
  "researchExclusions": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.isaacyardservices.ca/",
      "reason": "Provider identifies southern Manitoba, not Halifax, Nova Scotia."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mrchipper.ca/",
      "reason": "Provider identifies Ottawa/Kinburn, Ontario."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://dccurbing.ca/stump-removal",
      "reason": "Provider lists Alberta service locations."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.currentcosts.com/halifax/tree-service/",
      "reason": "No auditable local job-level evidence established for the claimed market averages."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.homestars.com/gardening-outdoors/tree-removal-service-pros/halifax",
      "reason": "Generic marketplace guidance was not treated as observed local quotes or invoices."
    }
  ]
}