Tree service in Columbus, Ohio

Old streets, big trees, small gaps

Whole streets on this side of Columbus were planted with silver maple long before anyone now living on them moved in, and those trees are now the biggest things on the block. Silver maple grows fast and its wood is soft, which is the trade the people who planted them made: shade in twenty years, shed limbs in sixty. The ash that once stood beside them is mostly gone. Emerald ash borer has killed most of the standing ash across central Ohio, and the dead ones still up are brittle enough that no climber should be on them.

The houses those trees stand over were platted close together, with detached garages behind and fences on both lot lines. A crown that size over a roof, a garage and two neighbors’ yards does not get felled. It comes apart in pieces, on rope, in a planned order. That is most of what tree removal means inside the city, and it is why we come and stand under the tree before we put a number on it.

How we work a close-set street

1. Walk the lot before we price it Where the truck sits, which side the brush leaves by, and whose property the work leans over. If a neighbor’s driveway or yard is part of the plan, we knock on their door before the saws start.
2. Protect what cannot move Fences, beds, the air conditioner, the garage roof. The drop zone gets cleared and covered before the first cut, not apologized for after it.
3. Everything over a structure goes on rope Limbs over the house or the garage are cut small, roped and lowered. Nothing free-falls where there is something underneath it.
4. Brush out the narrow way If the chipper cannot reach the back, the brush comes through the gate or along the house side by hand. Slower, and we say so in the price, never as a surprise on the invoice.
5. The street left as we found it Chips gone, rounds stacked or hauled, drive and walk blown down. Your neighbors should only know we were there because the tree is gone.

The strip by the road is probably not yours

The tree lawn, the grass between the sidewalk and the street, usually belongs to the city, and so does the tree standing in it, even though you mow around it. That one is not yours to cut, and it is not ours to cut for you. If you are not sure whether your tree is on your land or the city’s, check before booking anyone, us included. We will help you work it out on the free visit.