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Tree Removal on Amherst Street in Downtown Winchester, VA

Tree Removal
Tree removal becomes necessary when a tree is diseased, dead, or dying, which not only causes an eyesore but may also pose a safety risk. Tree removal may also be needed when landscaping or new construction plans dictate removal or replacement. If you're looking for the Best Tree Removal Near Me, give us a call @ 304-207-0115!

Safety
It’s important to use a licensed Tree Service company with trained and expert staff. Thousands of accidents – some deadly – occur each year in the US when home owners attempt their own large tree pruning or removal. Dangerous tree removals or tight-spot removals, where power lines, businesses, homes, or other structures are nearby, increase the importance of using an experienced tree removal company like Patriot Tree Service.

Methods
There are several methods used to take down a tree. Factors determining the removal method include: the tree’s size, it’s location, clearance distance, and safety concerns around the take-down perimeter. We use a combination of methods and devices, from boom trucks to cabling and rigging, to ensure the safest and most efficient, economical removal for each client.

Cleanup
Patriot Tree Service always clean up each job site like it was our own home – often we hear “this is cleaner than when you started!” And it’s up to you what we do with the wood: we can remove it completely or cut up branches into firewood or larger-sized pieces and stack it for you for your own use.

TIming
Patriot Tree Services' goal is to perform service within 24 hours of your call. We know folks want it done properly and promptly, so we strive to respond immediately to your call or web contact for a tree service estimate. Often we can even remove the tree immediately when we’re on-site doing the estimate. During busy times, such as after a wind storm, our service times may be up to 48 or 72 hours. For catastrophes or dangerous removals, when timing is critical, we can rearrange schedules and respond immediately.

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Tree Trimming in Winchester, VA

Tree Trimming, Tree Pruning, Reduction
We handle residential and commercial tree pruning and trimming. Fine-pruning trees in your landscape takes skill, and it’s as much of an art. Some companies shortcut the job and compromise the tree’s future, removing critical, nourishing branches.

Trimming and thinning is an important and often-overlooked necessity in landscape maintenance. Thinning removes unwanted excess branch growth, deadwood, and debris – removing a favored breeding ground for boring beetles and insects that damage and kill trees.

Pruning back overgrowth lightens the load on over-burdened branches and reduces windsail, greatly improving the tree’s safety risk, while leaving valuable shade. Pruning and thinning tree maintenance prolongs a tree’s lifespan too, since we’re shaping the tree in ways that allow new and future growth to occur in the right places and in proper directions, improving the capacity for greater natural growth.

Periodic tree maintenance via pruning, trimming, and thinning is important for appearance and safety because it helps sculpt or train the tree, forcing it to grow how we want it to. Left to its own, a tree will often grow in strange and unmanageable directions. As the un-managed and overweight tree grows larger and heavier each year, it can actually kill itself by essentially splitting in half (often in a heavy wind), destroying the cambium and its ability to grow. Even if the tree survives, the exposed and ripped-apart areas where the breaks occur are an open invitation for insect infestation (then a slower, painful-to-watch death takes place).

Strategically and selectively removing specific branches, carefully shaping the tree, is sometimes called fine pruning. Anyone can chop branches off a tree, but we regard fine pruning as art form, because we are carefully forming an aesthetically-perfect tree (and thus allowing future growth to occur correctly and naturally). Some inexperienced companies are more haphazard and take a very short time, presumably because they just don’t understand or care about the “art” (or perhaps to low-ball their bid), but you definitely will get what you pay for.

Reducing the size – height or width – of a tree and/or its canopy is known as reduction. The wrong way is “pollarding” (topping) a tree, which was common in the past but is acknowledged today by tree experts and arborists as a very bad tree maintenance practice. Abruptly lopping off the top/s of a tree’s crown/s causes deformation and what grows up are groups of “finger branches” that trap leaves and debris, which fosters rot (included bark) and insect infestation, as well as dangerous windsail. Reducing a tree the right way involves cutting multi-pronged branches back to their main laterals and, again, the strategic removal of specifically-selected branches. The appearance of the tree becomes centered and balanced, and also improves the tree’s safety risk.

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Tree Stump Removal in Martinsburg, WV

Stump Grinding
Stump removal is accomplished via a high power stump grinder, which penetrates deep, chipping and pulverizing the stump and root system, resulting in a safe and helpful mulch layer approximately 8 in. below the landscape surface.

Stump removal costs can be estimated by measuring the stump width (from the base of any visible root system, as per the image below), then multiplying the inches by $5. This will give you a ballpark figure. While some people choose to leave stumps in place, we recommend their removal for several reasons. First, because they serve no useful purpose, stumps are generally perceived to be an unsightly nuisance to a property and detract from its appearance and value.

Third, leaving the stump in place continues to help feed a root system that can get underneath and damage sidewalks, driveways, and foundations, as well as fingerlings/fine-roots which can damage underground pipes. Some homes have clay-based sewer drainage lines that are especially susceptible to damage, as the fine root hairs seek out their moisture.

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Tree service Tri-State Area, Storm damage and cleanup service

Storm Damaged Tree Removal in Linden, VA

Storm Cleanup

Removal of a tree that has fallen on your home, car, power lines, etc. cannot be delayed. If a strong storm system has uprooted a tree on your property or left it in danger of falling, call Patriot Tree Service. Other emergency situations could include:

a fallen tree that is blocking access to your property
a cracked/splitting tree that is in danger of falling
a storm-damaged tree with branches at risk of falling

Emergency Tree Removal needs may not always be due to safety concerns, but are still time-sensitive situations:

A tree, limb, or stump is affecting your construction schedule
Your home is on the market, but a dead/dying tree or ugly stump is delaying your property's open house scheduling
A dead/dying tree or ugly stump is hindering your property's sale or closing
Your insurance company requires that you take care of a tree problem immediately
Your city ordinances require that a fallen tree be removed immediately

If you are dealing with a time-sensitive situation, Patriot Tree Service will respond to your emergency promptly with our dependable service. Our goal is to perform service within 24 hours of your call, so if you're looking for 24 Hour Tree Service Near Me, give us a call. During busy times, such as after a wind storm, our service times may be up to 48 or 72 hours. For catastrophes or dangerous removals, when timing is critical, we can rearrange schedules and respond immediately.

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