St. George Tree Service
St. George, Ontario
Free written estimates (226) 546-3835
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.
Call (226) 546-3835.
Where a tree is healthy except at one weak point, these two methods hold it together. A cable is a length of flexible steel installed high up, capping the distance two stems can travel apart from each other.
A brace is a threaded rod passed straight through a split and tightened to close it. Repair is not what either device does. They purchase additional safe seasons for a tree otherwise headed for removal.
There are trees in this village too old to replace in a lifetime. One of them, a Camperdown elm on Beverly Street East, carries a County designation of its own.
Candidates for tree cabling and bracing nearly all look alike. The trunk splits into two or three stems low down, with bark folded into the crotch. Bark cannot knit to bark, so the flaw travels a little further up the tree each year as the stems put on weight.
Tree cabling and bracing belongs high on the stems, roughly two thirds of the distance from the union out to the tips. At that height it restrains travel without loading any one spot heavily.
Leaving some give is deliberate. Wood only lays down strength in response to movement, so the goal is trimming the extremes, not locking the tree rigid.
Generally speaking, yes. Pairing the hardware with a reduction leaves it far less crown weight to restrain, and it lasts longer as a result.
Fitted by itself, steel carries load that a saw could have taken off for less money. We usually advise doing both, and each appears on its own line of the quote.
Some trees gain nothing from cabling. Explaining that is better than accepting the job:
- Decay in the butt of the tree, since holding the crown does nothing about the actual defect - A union that has separated well past the point where steel by itself will make a difference - Anything still young, where correcting the union with a pruning cut is cheaper and permanent - A tree failing overall, for which tree removal is the sounder call
Yes, and hardly any quote for this work mentions it. Steel corrodes over time, and the tree grows over its anchors until nothing is visible from the ground.
Leave it unchecked for fifteen seasons and the steel may be holding nothing while the crown above has carried on expanding in the belief that it is held. We state a re-inspection interval on the quote itself, and our trucks are through Blue Lake and Branchton most weeks in any case.
If you are watching a low union in a big tree beside the house, tree cabling and bracing covers St. George and South Dumfries, and looking at it costs nothing.
Call (226) 546-3835. The home page lists the rest of what we take on.
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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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.
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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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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.