Tree removal is the last option on the list, not the first, and we would rather talk you out of a tree removal than sell you one you did not need. But a dead, split, badly leaning or structurally finished tree beside a house is past what tree trimming can fix, and pretending otherwise costs more in the end.
We do tree removal across Paris and the County of Brant by climbing and rigging, from a bucket, or with a crane where the tree cannot take a climber. Ring (226) 546-3814.
A significant decay pocket or cavity at the base, particularly with fungal brackets around it. That is the load-bearing part of the tree, what you can see is always smaller than what is behind it, and it is the most common reason a tree removal gets recommended.
A new lean, especially with the soil cracked or lifted on the high side. An old lean a tree has grown into is a different thing entirely; a new one means the root plate has moved, and that is a tree removal rather than a wait-and-see.
A crown that has been dying back from the top for several seasons. Trees die from the top down, once the leader is going the rest usually follows, and a tree removal booked then is cheaper than one booked in three years.
A stem that has already split at a union, or two stems with bark rolled into the joint between them where the crack is only a matter of time. Either one is a tree removal conversation.
Ash killed by emerald ash borer, which by now is most of the ash left standing in this watershed and the single most common tree removal we are called to.
Where there is room and the wood is sound, a tree can be felled in one piece. That is quick, and it is the cheapest tree removal there is. In Paris there is usually not room.
More often the tree removal happens in sections. A climber works up the tree, cuts pieces off, and each one is lowered on a rigging line rather than dropped — over a conservatory, past a fence, around a hydro service. That is slow, skilled work, and it is what most of the older parts of town require.
Where the tree cannot safely be climbed, the tree removal is done from a bucket, or we bring a crane and fly the sections out. Dead ash is the usual reason. A crane costs more per hour and often takes less time overall, because the pieces come out whole instead of being lowered one at a time.
An ash killed by the borer loses moisture quickly and goes brittle throughout, right down into the butt. It fails at the branch unions rather than snapping where you would predict, which is what makes a dead ash tree removal a different job.
Climbing puts a person's weight and a rope's shock load onto exactly those unions. Rigging off it does the same thing with much larger forces. Neither is defensible on a tree that has been standing dead for a few seasons.
So a dead ash gets a bucket, a crane, or a straight fell from the ground, and the tree removal price reflects the equipment rather than the size of the tree. Every year it stands, the tree removal gets harder and dearer. That is the single strongest argument for dealing with ash sooner rather than later.
Height is the least important factor in a tree removal. What matters is what has to be protected, whether a truck can get near it, whether the wood can be dropped or has to be flown out, and what condition the tree is in.
Across this province, tree removal on something small in an open garden runs a few hundred dollars; a large, dead or awkwardly placed tree runs well into four figures. Access, crane time and disposal move it further than species or height ever will. Those are market ranges rather than our prices, and the only figure worth acting on is the written one after somebody has walked your property.
Stump grinding is quoted separately from the tree removal, because plenty of people want the tree gone and are happy to leave the stump.
If you are not sure whether a tree needs a tree removal, that is a reason to have somebody look at it rather than a reason to wait. The visit and the written tree removal quote cost nothing. Ring (226) 546-3814, or see the rest of what we do on the Paris Tree Service home page.
Very few jobs stop at one of these. Here is everything else we do.
Tree trimming and pruning is most of what we do in Paris, and most tree trimming is not about making a tree smaller. It is about taking weight off the wrong places, getting the dead material out, and cutting so the tree can seal what we cut.
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Dead branch removal is the tree trimming job people put off longest, and the one that gives least warning. A dead limb does not creak, lean or drop leaves to tell you it is going. It stays exactly where it is until the day it does not, which is why dead branch removal gets booked after the fact rather than before.
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Emergency storm damage cleanup is the call that comes at five in the morning, and it is the one part of tree trimming nobody plans for. A tree across the drive, a limb through the garage roof, a trunk resting on the car, or a branch left hanging over the front door with nothing holding it. Storm damage cleanup is answered outside working hours.
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Crown thinning and canopy reduction are the two kinds of tree trimming that make a large tree less of a liability without taking it out. Thinning takes density out of the crown; canopy reduction takes size off the outside of it. They solve different problems, they are constantly confused, and neither one is topping.
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Tree cabling and bracing is how you keep a structurally suspect tree that is otherwise healthy and worth keeping, once tree trimming alone will not do it. A cable is a flexible support fitted high in the crown between two limbs or two stems; a brace is a rigid rod through a union that is already moving. Cabling and bracing limits movement, it does not repair the union.
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Stump grinding and removal is the tree trimming job that turns a felled tree back into usable garden. A grinder takes the stump down below ground level in chips, so the area can be levelled, turfed, planted or paved. Stump grinding is quoted separately from taking the tree down.
View Stump Grinding and RemovalDescribe the tree and what is under it. Somebody attends, looks at the whole property, and returns a written scope with the debris and the exclusions spelled out.
The more you can tell us about the tree and the access, the more the first visit achieves. Only a way of reaching you is required. Would you sooner speak to someone? The number is (226) 546-3814.
