Tree service in Dublin, Ohio

Lots that were built around their trees

A lot of Dublin’s newer, larger lots were laid out with mature trees kept deliberately: an oak or a walnut that is older than the street it now shades. A tree like that cannot be bought, only grown, and it is worth real money to the property, which changes the arithmetic. On streets where a tree is cheap and young, removal is often the sensible answer. Where the tree is the best thing on the lot, the sensible answer is usually an inspection, a careful prune, sometimes a cable in the right fork, and removal only when the tree has actually failed.

One pattern worth knowing if your house is newer than its biggest tree: the damage construction does to roots does not show the year the house is built. A tree that had machinery parked over its roots, or grade changed around it, can decline five or ten years later, from the top down. If a kept tree has started thinning at the crown, that history is the first question we will ask. The newer plantings out here have their own habits too: ornamental pears that split at their tight forks in wind, and honey locust, a fine street tree whose leaflets at least have the manners to disappear into the lawn in fall.

Keeping a tree you cannot replace

1. Inspection before intervention We look at the whole tree: the forks, the base, the ground around the roots, what has changed since it was young. The plan comes from that, not from a catalog of services.
2. Prune for structure, not appearance Deadwood out, overextended limbs shortened to sound growth, weight taken off weak forks. The tree should look like itself afterward, only safer.
3. Cable the fork that is worth saving A good tree with one questionable union can carry a support system high in the crown and keep standing for years. See cabling and bracing.
4. Never top it Topping is the one thing we will refuse to do to a good tree. The regrowth is weakly attached, the wounds do not close, and the tree ends up more dangerous than before, not less.
5. Recheck after big weather A storm is an exam. After a serious blow, the forks and cables get looked at again, because damage you catch early is pruning and damage you catch late is removal.

Whose tree is it, out front?

Same rule in Dublin as everywhere in central Ohio: the strip between the sidewalk and the street is usually the city’s ground, and the tree standing in it is usually the city’s tree, however long you have raked its leaves. Before you book anyone to touch a street-side tree, check whose it is. On the free visit we will help you work out where the line runs, and quote only for what is actually yours.