Tree services
Tree services, explained
Tree work falls into a few groups: taking trees down, keeping them healthy and safe, and dealing with stumps. Each page explains when the service is the right call, how professionals do it, what drives the price, and what you can safely do yourself.
Tree on a house, car or power line? Get clear of it. Call 911 for injuries or downed lines, and your utility for any tree touching wires.
Emergency stepsTree removal
Taking a tree down safely, in pieces when space is tight.
Tree Removal
Tree removal is cutting down a tree and hauling it away.
Emergency Tree Removal
If a tree is on your house, across power lines or blocking an exit, get everyone out of the affected area first.
Storm Damage Tree Removal
After a storm, the job is to sort trees into three groups: down and needing removal, damaged but savable with pruning, and standing but newly dangerous.
Dead Tree Removal
A dead tree should be removed if it could hit anything when it falls, such as a house, driveway, road, fence or play area.
Hazardous Tree Removal
A hazardous tree is a living tree with a defect, such as a crack, decay, a failing root plate or a new lean, that makes it likely to fail onto something that matters: a house, a driveway, a street or a place people use.
Large Tree Removal
Large trees near buildings are removed in sections that are either lowered on ropes through rigging points in the tree or lifted out by a crane.
Tree care
Pruning, clearance and inspections that keep a tree standing.
Tree Trimming & Pruning
Tree trimming (or pruning) is selectively removing branches to make a tree safer, clear it from structures, or improve its health and shape.
Tree Risk Assessment
A tree risk assessment is an arborist's evaluation of how likely a tree (or part of it) is to fail, what it would hit, and how bad the consequences would be.
Stumps
Grinding or removing what's left after the tree comes down.
Property types
Commercial sites, HOAs and multi-tree properties.
Need help with a tree?
Call to speak with a local tree-service provider about removal, trimming, stumps or storm damage. Describe the tree and what it's near, and they'll explain the next step.