Tree Removal

A dead or leaning tree does not announce the day it comes down. It waits for the wind that funnels through the valley, the heavy spring snow load, or the saturated ground after a thaw. By the time the lean is obvious from the kitchen window, the roots have often already given up.

The expensive version of this problem is the one that happens on its own schedule, into a roof, a vehicle, a power line or a fence line you share with a neighbour. What starts as a removal you could have booked becomes an insurance claim, and the tree still has to come out afterward, now in pieces around the damage.

We take trees down in a controlled way, which in a tight mountain lot usually means climbing and rigging the tree out in sections rather than felling it. Limbs are lowered on ropes, not dropped. Where access allows, we bring equipment in on matting to protect the driveway and lawn. Every removal is planned around what is underneath it before a saw starts.

The work is done by an ISA Certified Arborist, fully insured with $5M liability and WCB coverage, so if anything did go wrong on your property, it is our problem and not yours. When the crew leaves, the wood is bucked and removed or stacked as you prefer, the debris is chipped, and the site is raked. We can grind the stump in the same visit.

Send a couple of photos of the tree and where it sits, and you will get a clear, itemized quote back, with no vague ranges and no surprises on the invoice.