About Sable Ridge Tree Care, Sarasota
Owner-run since 2014, with one climbing crew. The person who writes your report is the one who climbs.
Who we are
One crew, and the owner in the tree
Sable Ridge is Dale, who still climbs every job, and a small crew working Sarasota County out of a yard off Sable Ridge Trail. There’s no sales team, no call center and no second crew you’ve never met turning up in a rented chipper.
That decides most of how we work. When the person who recommends the work is the person who has to go up the rope and do it, recommendations get conservative in a hurry. Nobody oversells a removal they personally have to rig out over a pool cage.
It also keeps the report honest: there’s no gap between what was seen in the tree and what got written down, because it’s one person and one memory.
Why the card exists
Tree work is hard to inspect
You’re buying an outcome forty feet above your head, done while you’re at work, judged by a standard you’ve never read. Our card names the tree, says what was done in words specific enough to be wrong, and carries the refusals, which is the part that costs us money and so the part worth reading.
Standards, in plain terms
The two documents we work to
ANSI A300 says how the work should be done: where a cut goes, what a reduction is, how much crown may come off. ANSI Z133 says how to do it safely: distances from power lines, who may stand under a rigged piece. Neither is a secret, which is exactly why any company can be asked whether it works to them.
A climbing outfit
Why we climb instead of bringing a bigger machine
A crane can’t get into most Sarasota County back yards, and a bucket can’t reach the inside of a spreading live oak at all. So we climb: rope and saddle, a throwline into the canopy, rigging on the way down. When a crane or a lift is genuinely the right tool, we say so and price it.
Since 2014
By the numbers
- One climbing crew, with the owner on every job.
- Over 3,000 trees written up on a card.
- Licensed & insured, with the certificate sent straight from the insurer on request.
- Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm.
Ask us for the boring version.
The owner will tell you what a walk involves, what it doesn’t include, and what we’d need to see before anybody gives you a price.