Storm damage and emergencies
A tree on the house, the drive or the car. The number takes calls around the clock, and the post says so: 24/7 emergency response.
All six services
What we take down
Down before the storm gets to it first.
A dead tree does not get safer standing. It dries, it rots from the inside, and it drops limbs in every wind until one day it drops the trunk. The ones leaning at a house are the ones to call about now, not after the forecast turns.
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The job behind the photograph.
Connecticut has more standing dead wood in its yards than it did ten years ago. The emerald ash borer has been killing ash across the state since it arrived in 2012, and the spongy moth years stripped the oaks in the east of the state badly enough that many never came back. A dead ash in particular goes brittle fast, which is exactly what makes it dangerous to leave and awkward to take down.
The reel from the week before a nor’easter is the job this page is about: a dead tree with a lot of its weight toward the house, taken down before the wind could decide where it went. A tree like that cannot be trusted to behave the way a live one does. The wood is weaker, the hinge holds less, and a rotten centre can turn a clean fell into a surprise. The stump in the gallery, rotted black through the middle, is what the inside of a tree like that can look like.
Widow makers are the other half of it: dead or broken limbs hung up in a crown, waiting for a gust. The St Patrick’s Day post is a morning of exactly that: "cleaning up some widow makers and problem trees after last night’s storm."
Worth a call
Leaning at the house
Or dropping limbs, or bare in June when everything round it is green.
Dead wood
Handled differently
Brittle, often hollow. The cut plan allows for a hinge that will not hold like live wood.
Widow makers
Hung limbs cleared
Broken and dead limbs brought down before someone walks under them.
Before a storm
Call early
The week before a forecast nor’easter is when everyone else calls too.
Free quotes
Get a number on the dead 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
