Quote - Ok, I've checked my render settings and the AO nodes and settings and my settings were as adviced, so that's not the issue.

I'm going to go out on a limb (bad pun, bad pun!), but have you tried eliminating one of the trees?  They have a LOT of little limbs, and that is probably killing your render time with the calculations.

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