Tree service
Get a tree service on the job — trimming, pruning, storm damage.
Limbs over the roof, deadwood above the drive, a crown that needs reducing, or a mess left by the last storm. Describe the tree and you’ll be connected with a tree service covering your area.
Connects you with a tree service
serving your area
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What happens when you call
You describe the tree, where it stands and what sits under it. You’re connected with a tree service covering your area. Ask them to look at the work and price it in writing before anything is cut.
Trimming & pruning
Reduction, thinning, crown lifting
Deadwood
Limbs over roofs and drives
Storm damage
Hangers, split limbs, debris
Ongoing tree care
Clearance, shaping, young trees
Your callThirty seconds of detail
Rough height, distance to the house, drive or fence, and what’s wrong — deadwood, a lean, rubbing on the roof, damage after wind. That is enough to route you.
Step one
Site visitSomeone looks up
A crew should read the crown, the union points and the ground below. What’s under the tree decides the method, and the method decides the price.
Step two
The priceLine by line
Ask for the cutting, the debris and any stump work as separate lines. Itemized work is the only kind you can compare or hold anyone to.
Step three
The workThen the clean-up
Climbing or a lift, cuts taken at the collar, sections roped clear of what’s below, and the brush chipped out. Agree where the wood and chips end up before the crew starts.
Step four
Tree work a tree service can take on
Trimming
Tree trimming
Crown reduction, thinning and raising. Clearance off the roof, the gutters, the drive and the walkway.
Pruning
Tree pruning
Structural cuts on young and mid-life trees, deadwood out of mature crowns, cuts taken at the branch collar.
Storm damage
Storm damage tree work
Hangers caught in the crown, split and torn limbs, a crown half shed across the yard after wind or ice.
Urgent
Emergency tree service
A limb on the roof, a trunk across the drive, a tree that moved in the last blow. Say on the call how close it is to the house.
Tree care
Tree care and health
Thinning crowns, dieback at the tips, fungal brackets at the base, decline you want looked at before it becomes a removal.
After the cut
Stumps and debris
Grinding, chipping and haul-away. Usually its own line, so ask for it when you ask for the rest.
Waiting makes it worse
Decay only runs one direction. A fungal pocket at a union keeps hollowing the wood behind it, and a deadwood limb over a roof or a parked car gets more brittle every season until a gust takes it down on its own schedule. Rubbing branches wear through shingles and siding slowly enough that nobody notices until water is inside. Soil lifting or cracking on the far side of a lean means the root plate is already moving, and that does not settle back.
Storm season sets the rest of it. Before the weather, the work can be planned: the crew picks the day, rigs the sections and drops them where they want them. Afterwards it is a response, with a crown already down across the drive, access blocked by the thing you need removed, and every tree service in the area working through the same list. A limb that fails into a fence or a roof also turns a cutting job into a repair job.
One exception that is not a job for a tree crew: if any limb, trunk or debris is touching or hanging near a power line, contact your electric utility and keep everyone well clear of the tree and the ground around it. Do not let anyone cut it, and do not wait for a crew.
Common questions
Cost
What drives the price?
Access first: whether a truck and chipper can get close, and whether there is room to drop sections or they have to be roped out. Then how near the tree stands to a roof, fence or line, and then its size. Open ground is simpler work than tight ground.
Timing
How soon can someone come?
Describe the tree on the call and ask what they have open in your area. Say outright if a limb is over a roof, a drive or a walkway — that changes where you sit in the order.
Debris
What happens to the wood and the stump?
Decide it up front. Hauled away, cut to length and stacked, or chipped and left are three different outcomes, and the stump is usually its own line.
What to ask
What should I ask on the call?
Ask to see proof of liability and workers’ comp cover before anyone climbs. Ask whether the price is for the cutting alone. Ask who is responsible if a section lands on the fence or the lawn.
Describe the tree
Deadwood over the roof, a crown that needs reducing, limbs torn loose in the last storm — one call connects you with a tree service covering your area.
Calls are routed to an independent local provider. We’re paid a referral fee. You pay the provider, never us.