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What Can Greg & His Team Do For You?
or,... Wow! There is Just Nothing Greg Can’t Do!
One of the neatest things about Greg is that he so multitalented.

You know that Greg has been an award-winning climber / tree surgeon for twenty five years, and you know that he is a college graduate, a Certified Arborist, and A Certified Applicator. While tree work is what we do, everyday, and tree work is our passion and our expertise, Greg and his team can be helpful to you and your property, in so many more ways. Please choose from the links on the left to review what services we can offer you.
Tree Pruning
Tree Cabling
Tree Removal
Tree Installation
Tree Transplanting
Stump Grinding
Tree Health Care
Grading
Lawn Installation
Excavating
Fencing
Hardscaping
Garden & Retaining Walls
Drainage Systems
Power Washing
Spring & Fall Cleanup
Snowplowing
Cat & Animal Rescue

Tree Removal
Q: Why take down a tree?

The tree is dead.
Alive, but hazardous to home or property or people.
Uprooted, leaning over/ toward house or car, unstable, storm damaged, etc.
Dying by disease, insect infestation, or drought damaged.
Lot clearing: at either residential or commercial building sites. This is the removal of multiple tagged trees in a particular area for a number of reasons: Home building or residential additions, office, parking lot development, a lawn installation, etc.

Q: How do we take down the tree?

There are different ways to do take trees down, and it depends on the tree size, shape, reach, location and health status.

Notch and drop. Making a well planned cut at the base particularly chosen to direct the manner, speed, and direction the tree will fall.
Climbing method, or the rope and saddle method, rope rigging. The experienced climber lifts himself into the tree, by throwing a climbing rope into the tree and raising himself up into it, secured by a series of special safety climbing knots and ropes. Branches are tied to a rope, and then cut carefully by Greg. He lowers them down. In the end only the stem is left.
Some times we have to use a CRANE.

We use a 35-ton, heavy-duty hydraulic crane. A crane is a vehicle / truck that is a large piece of machinery, and is assembled on site. It involves a system of pulleys and cables that can lift massive amounts of weight over a distance. It is able to lift heavy logs, trunks, branches, and many other things over structures that are too close to the tree to ensure a safe standard take-down method. A crane can hold and carry the limbs and trunk a distance, say from the backyard, passing over the pool, and over the roof of your house, past the front yard and to the curb.

The crane is useful in several different kinds of circumstances:
When trees are in precarious, enclosed, oddly angled or otherwise difficult locations.
Trees that are difficult to reach, to get to with equipment are crane-ready.
Trees that are leaning over a house pool, car, or entangled in electric wires, severely dead or badly decayed are crane ready to be sure.

Basically, trees that just cannot be safely climbed and taken apart piece by piece but rather plucked from it’s site, and lifted over, and away from the situation.

The crane eliminates a lot of the potential hazards that can present themselves in the takedown process. It protects the climber, the crew, the surrounding people, and property. It is always a site to see to be sure. The drama and the precision, the immensity and magic of a crane job is just magnificent. It is like a Vegas show: seeing Greg swinging from the trees working with the crane operator with hand signals, The crane operator astonishing courage and precision, and the chain saws going, and Greg securing each multi-ton limb or trunk with ropes, preparing them to be lifted and taken by the crane. Wow! The moments of tense silence as the tree is literally lifted high up in the air and over a customer’s house -- exhilarating! The neighbors all come out to see the show…. It becomes a great block party for you, and heck; it becomes pretty nice advertising for us.