Tree services in Sarasota
Eight kinds of work, one climbing crew, and for each one, when it’s the wrong answer.
Eight kinds of work
Everything we do to a tree
No packages and no maintenance plans. There’s a tree, what it needs, and a price against each part of the job.
Tree removal
Taken down in sections and lowered on a rope when the yard has no room to fell it.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not a healthy tree that only has two limbs in the wrong place.
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Tree trimming & pruning
Deadwood out, clearance over the roof, and every cut placed where the tree can close it.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not “opening it up” by stripping the inside of the crown.
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Crown reduction
Limbs shortened back to living side branches, so the tree gets smaller and stays strong.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not a quarter of the crown in one go, and never a topping cut.
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Storm damage
Hanging limbs, split trunks and trees on the ground, sorted by danger before anything else.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not anything touching a power line. That’s the utility’s job.
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Stump grinding
Ground below grade, with the surface roots that catch the mower, utilities marked first.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not over a line nobody has located.
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Tree risk assessment
The tree, what it could hit, and the real odds, written down. An assessment, not a sales visit.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not a free “inspection” that always ends in a removal.
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Cabling & bracing
Steel cable and rods for split trunks and weak unions, with an honest answer on the time it buys.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not a fix for a trunk that’s already cracked through.
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Palm trimming
Brown fronds and seed stalks off, green fronds left on, climbed on a rope, never spikes.
When it’s the wrong answer: Not a “hurricane cut”. It weakens the palm.
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What we won’t do, and how a price is built
What we don’t do
Worth saying, because it saves everyone a visit
- Topping. Not on oaks, not on crepe myrtles, not the week before you sell the house.
- Hurricane cuts on palms. Same reason, different plant.
- Anything touching a power line. Lines on the road side of your property belong to the utility.
- Spikes on a tree that’s staying. Climbing spikes put a hole in the bark at every step. They’re for removals.
How the price is put together
Priced by risk and access, not height
- Whether there’s a drop zone, or every piece has to be rigged and lowered.
- What’s underneath: a cage, a drainfield, a paver deck, an irrigation manifold.
- Whether the chipper can reach, or it all goes out by hand through a gate.
- Dead or alive, and what happens to the wood.
Each goes on the written scope as its own line, so you can strike one and watch the number move.
Not sure which one you need?
That’s normal, and it’s our job rather than yours. Describe the tree and what’s worrying you, and the walk sorts it out.