Sometimes entire trees need to be removed for various reasons. If you have come to this conclusion Preferred Tree Service can help. Whole tree removal is the largest part of our business. We are experienced in all types of removal including complex rigging over homes and gardens, large crane removals and total land clearing projects.


Depending on accessibility we will choose the safest, most efficient method of removing your tree with minimal impact to your property. The two most common methods are rigging and lowering or crane removals.


Rigging and Lowering can be done by a climber or from a bucket truck. Pulleys are placed on carefully selected points in the tree. Appropriately sized branches are tied to ropes through the pulleys. The climber carefully cuts the branch as ground workers us friction devices and tag lines to carefully lower the branch to the ground. Then it is cut up and hauled to the chipper to make room for the next branch. This is repeated until the trunk can be carefully felled to the ground and cut up and removed using wheeled dollies or with heavy equipment. If heavy equipment is to be used plywood is placed over soft surfaces to protect against damage or marking. Surprisingly, this can be done with minimal damage to the ground however some minor turf damage may result and will be easily repaired.  There is simply no way around the traffic on your lawn with this method. If you would rather have zero damage or traffic over your prized lawn and landscape we will need to bring in a crane.


The Crane Method is sometimes associated with heavy turf damage and high cost however the exact opposite is true. The crane is set up on the driveway or road with plywood and planking to distribute weight and prevent damage to pavement. A climber or bucket operator hooks relatively large branches to the crane hook and carefully cuts them as the skilled crane operator simultaneously lifts the branch up and away. The huge branch soars over your home, lawn and landscape without bending a single blade of grass and is carefully lowered to the street. The large crane can safely remove large trees much faster than tediously lowering small branches and dragging them across your property. Our experienced removal crew can safely remove huge trees in a single day with zero property impact and less disruption to you and your neighbor’s lives.

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