Tree Trimming Questions From Around Aurora

The price depends on the size of the tree, what sits underneath it, and how easily a truck can reach it. Height matters far less than most people expect. A tree in an open yard is a straightforward tree trimming job, while the same tree beside a house with fences on both sides takes much longer. We provide a written price after seeing it in person, at no charge.

Under the town's Private Tree Protection By-law, most homeowners can remove up to two trees in a twelve-month period without a permit, and larger properties get two trees per quarter hectare on the same basis. Heritage trees always need a permit. This only applies to full removal, not to tree trimming or dead branch work, so tree trimming never needs a permit, and we can help you check before booking anything.

Late fall and winter suit most tree trimming. The leaves are down, so the structure of the tree is easy to see, and the tree is dormant and recovers quickly once spring growth starts. Oak trees are trimmed only in the dormant season, since a cut made while an oak is in leaf can attract the beetles that spread oak wilt. This is why we book most tree trimming for the colder months. Dead branches and storm damage are handled at any time of year.

Access is the reason. The older streets around the Heritage Conservation District were laid out for a smaller century, so the lots are narrow and there is often no side entrance for equipment. Branches have to be lowered on ropes rather than dropped, and everything is carried out through the front, which makes the same size of tree a longer tree trimming job.

It becomes more difficult and more expensive every year it is left standing. Dead ash dries out and turns brittle at the branch unions, which is exactly where a rope or rigging line puts the heaviest load, so once climbing is no longer safe the tree needs a bucket truck instead. An ash removed soon after it dies is a much simpler job than the same tree left two or three years longer.

Yes, and it is the most useful thing you can do before winter arrives. Snow slides off a crown without much harm, but freezing rain builds a shell of ice around every twig, and a crown can end up carrying several times its own weight by morning with no wind at all. Reducing a heavy or overextended limb ahead of winter lowers the load it has to carry.

Probably not. Fast-growing species like silver maple and Manitoba maple produce soft wood that breaks more easily than a slower-growing oak, especially in a wet year. Regular dead branch removal and light tree trimming manage this far better than one heavy tree trimming visit every fifteen years.

Tree trimming reduces risk, but it cannot remove it completely. Taking weight off the outer branches through tree trimming eases the strain on the trunk and roots, which helps a great deal. It cannot repair decay inside the trunk, restore roots that have already shifted, or undo the damage caused by topping a tree in the past.

That is your choice, and every option appears on your written tree trimming quote. Branches are chipped and taken away as standard. The larger wood can be cut into firewood lengths and stacked where you want it, hauled away completely, or left in long pieces for you to deal with later.

Yes, and there is no extra charge for the tree trimming assessment while we are already on site. Trees on one property are usually a similar age, grow in the same soil and face the same weather, so a problem visible on one tree is often present on the others nearby.