Questions
What people ask before they call. Answered straight.
Eight of them, answered the way they get answered on the phone. If yours is not here, ring it through. It takes about a minute.
Free quotes, any time. 24/7 for emergencies.
What does it cost to take a tree down?
It depends on the size of the tree, whether it can be felled whole or has to come down in pieces, what is underneath it, and how the truck gets in. None of that is visible over the phone, so the quote is given after the tree has been looked at. The quote is free, and the bio says to call any time for one.
Is a dead tree actually dangerous?
It gets more dangerous every season it stands. Dead wood dries out, goes brittle and rots from the inside, and it drops limbs in the wind until one day it drops the trunk. A dead tree leaning toward a house is the one to deal with before a storm rather than after. The reel on the feed from the week before a nor’easter is exactly that job.
A tree came down on my house. What do I do?
Get everyone out of the part of the house it is on, stay away from any wires, and call. The owner’s own post says it: call 860-818-1398 anytime, 24/7 emergency response. A tree on a roof is taken off from the top down, so the roof does not get worse on the way out.
There are wires in the tree. Can you still take it down?
Wires have to be made safe by the power company first. That is not a rule anyone gets to skip. Call them, then call the number on this page, and the tree work starts once the lines are dealt with.
What is left when you are finished?
Brush goes through the chipper, which is on most of the jobs on the feed, and the trunk is bucked into rounds. Whether the wood stays for the fireplace or leaves on the truck, and what happens to the stump, are worth settling when you call, because they change the job.
Can you get to a tree behind the house, or down a bank?
Yes. Trees with no truck access are climbed: a climber ties in at the top and takes the tree apart piece by piece, lowering limbs on a rope over anything worth protecting. The lakeside climb and the handsaw work high in an oak on the feed are that kind of job.
Do you use a bucket truck?
They run their own, the white and orange one in the Old Home Days photographs with the number on the boom. It is the quick way to reach roadside trees and limbs over a street. A tree in the back garden that the truck cannot park beside is a climbing job instead.
Which towns do you cover?
All of East Hampton, and the towns around it: Portland, Marlborough, Colchester, Middletown, East Haddam, Haddam and Glastonbury. If you are just outside that, call and ask anyway.
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Call about the tree.
Say where the tree is, roughly how big, and what is near it. A photo sent by text is worth more than a paragraph. Quotes are free, and the number takes calls around the clock for emergencies.
(860) 818-1398