St. George Tree Service
St. George, Ontario
Free written estimates (226) 546-3835
Emergency storm damage cleanup has to happen quickly when a tree lets go with no warning. We carry full insurance and pick up this line after hours everywhere in St. George and South Dumfries. Where a hydro line has been caught up in it, the utility gets the first call and we get the second.
Call (226) 546-3835.
Wind on its own rarely moves a healthy tree here. Wind that arrives after two straight weeks of rain moves a great many, because clay holds that water and the root plate loosens inside it.
So a tree that shrugged off a decade of July thunderstorms tips over in an ordinary November gust, and emergency storm damage cleanup begins. Owners often expect to find rot and instead find perfectly solid wood.
The dangerous stretch runs from a saturated October through to the first hard frost. Once the ground has frozen, the same wind does very little damage, and once the ground has drained in June the same is true.
That window is the reason we suggest booking crown reduction work ahead of it. Nobody can safely reduce a crown that is already loaded and leaning.
There are four useful things to do while you wait. Each one improves safety on site and helps the insurance claim go through:
- Phone the utility if wires are tangled in the tree, and assume every fence, gate or vehicle the tree is resting against is carrying current - Keep clear of the part still upright, since a tree that has already broken once carries stored load in places nobody can predict - Photograph the scene before anything is moved, because the insurer will want to see it as it fell - Write down which tree failed, what it fell across, and whether anybody is trapped inside or locked outside
We do not work in the order calls arrive. The most dangerous situations come first, and we would rather say that plainly than let people assume otherwise.
Dwellings, blocked driveways and public roadways head the emergency storm damage cleanup list. After those come sheds, cars, fencing and anything suspended above a path people use. A trunk resting quietly on grass is a job for later in the week.
A limb trapped or bowed beneath another holds a great deal of stored force. Cut it in the wrong place and it springs quicker than anyone can move clear.
Working out which piece is trapping which, and freeing them in the correct sequence, is the whole of emergency storm damage cleanup. A saw bought for bucking firewood is not the tool for a windthrown tree, and it is worth waiting for us.
Emergency storm damage cleanup runs in two stages. First the site is made safe, then the wreckage is cleared. One sheet carries both, priced separately, so nothing is hidden inside a single total.
That same emergency storm damage cleanup sheet notes which material is hauled off, which trees remain, and whether stump grinding happens the same day or is booked for another day.
After a storm we run emergency storm damage cleanup right through St. George and South Dumfries, day or night, weekday or weekend.
Call (226) 546-3835. Where wires are involved, call the utility before you call us. The home page sets out the rest of our tree services.
One tree usually needs more than one thing done to it. The remaining services appear below.
Slow growth on this ground means a tree holds whatever shape tree trimming and pruning gives it for a long time, so the work is worth getting right the first time. We carry full insurance and take on pruning and trimming at houses and on larger properties right across St. George and South Dumfries.
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More calls come in about dead branch removal than about anything else we do. We carry full insurance and take on dead branch removal at any height, anywhere in St. George and South Dumfries.
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Tree removal rests on three grounds. Death of the tree is the first. A structural defect no cut can reach is the second. The third is a planting position that was never large enough for the mature tree.
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Too much density or too much spread in a crown can nearly always be put right by crown thinning and canopy reduction, without damaging the tree. The two treatments are crown thinning and canopy reduction. We carry full insurance and perform both on mature trees in St. George and South Dumfries.
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Tree cabling and bracing is the answer when a weak union appears in an otherwise good tree, and it is not automatically a reason to fell it. Tree cabling and bracing will hold that tree together for years to come. We carry full insurance and fit both across St. George and South Dumfries, and we will tell you straight when steel is not the right answer.
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Stump grinding and removal deals with whatever is left in the ground after a tree removal, and it can happen whenever you are ready. Stump grinding and removal gets its own price rather than being buried inside the felling total, which keeps the choice with you. We carry full insurance and work throughout St. George and South Dumfries.
View Stump Grinding and RemovalSay what is wrong and where the property is. Once we have been out, a written quote follows setting out the method, the fate of the debris, and every exclusion.
If you know the species and rough height, include them, and always include the road, because access shifts a price more than size ever does. Note what sits below the tree. Flag storm damage as urgent. The only field we truly need is a way of reaching you. If you would prefer to talk it through, call (226) 546-3835.