Storm work is the job nobody books in advance. Ring (226) 546-3847 — although if a wire is anywhere in it, the utility gets that call before we do.
Wind alone rarely puts a healthy tree over. Wind plus saturated ground does it regularly, and around here the ground is saturated more often than most people realise, because the clay under the sand will not let the water away.
That is why emergency storm damage cleanup in Cainsville tends to involve whole trees rather than broken limbs. A shallow plate in wet sand releases, and the tree arrives on the ground with its root ball attached.
Ice brings its own emergency storm damage cleanup, and it is worse on a tree that has never been reduced, because every extra metre of limb is another metre of loaded lever.
Wire involved? Ring hydro. Everything is live until hydro have been: the tree itself, whatever fencing it is resting on, the gate, and anything parked in contact with it.
Keep clear of what is still standing. When a tree half fails, half of it is still loaded, and the remainder tends to arrive earlier than anybody plans for.
Photograph everything before it is moved. Your insurer will want it and it cannot be recreated afterwards.
Then ring, and say what came down, what it landed on, and whether anyone is shut in.
By consequence, not by the order the phone rang. Saying so up front is fairer than pretending otherwise.
Trees on houses, trees closing the only access, and trees across Garden Avenue go first. Outbuildings, cars, fences and hangers over footpaths follow.
A tree flat on a lawn, threatening nothing, is next week's job.
A stem under tension behaves nothing like the same stem lying slack. Cut in the wrong place and the release beats anyone's reactions.
Working out what is holding what, and in which order to let it go, is the entire skill. It is also the reason a firewood saw has no business in a wind-thrown crown.
Securing the site and clearing it are separate jobs written on one sheet: what leaves, what remains, and whether the stump goes today or gets booked in.
Then walk the rest of the property. A storm that took one tree has almost always loosened a second, and on this soil "loosened" means the plate has moved. That one is far cheaper to deal with before the next system than after it.
(226) 546-3847. Tell us what has landed where. Anything involving a wire goes to hydro before it comes to us. The home page lists the rest.
Very little here belongs under a single heading. Below is everything else.
Dead wood cleared. Headroom recovered. Small faults dealt with while they are still small. Weight brought down off the top. All of that is tree trimming and pruning. Kept on a cycle, nothing else done to a tree is so cheap.
View Tree Trimming and Pruning
Dead branch removal is collecting what the tree has already written off, before it comes down on its own schedule. On streets like these it is the most common job we do and the easiest to price.
View Dead Branch Removal
Ring here about taking a tree down and you will usually be told it wants cutting, not felling. Occasionally that is not the answer, and dressing it up costs money later.
View Tree Removal
One question, two answers. Thin a crown and the silhouette survives while the density goes. Reduce a crown and the density survives while the silhouette comes in.
View Crown Thinning and Canopy Reduction
Tree cabling and bracing is steel fitted to hold a defect worth holding. It does one job properly and gets sold for several others.
View Tree Cabling and Bracing
A stump gets its own number and does not vanish inside the cost of felling. A great many owners are perfectly happy with the tree down and the stump where it is.
View Stump Grinding and RemovalDescribe the tree's behaviour, name what is beneath the crown, and mention the bank if it comes into it. A climber comes out and the scope that returns spells out brush, cordwood and exclusions.
The more that goes in this box the better. What kind of tree and how big. Whether a truck can reach it. How close the water is. What a falling limb would land on. Every one of those changes what the work turns out to be. Only one field cannot be skipped: somewhere for the answer to go. Sooner talk than type? Ring (226) 546-3847.
