Residential Tree Service
What Do Homeowners Need to Know About Residential Tree Service?
Unlike flowers that aren’t cared for properly, when trees become sick or injured they can do serious damage to your home or property. Residential tree service is essential in order to keep trees healthy and prevent them from falling or dropping branches.
Here is everything that you need to know about residential tree services, including what trees need and whether it is a good idea to take care of it yourself or whether you should hire a professional.
Residential Tree Maintenance
Trees don't generally need to be watered or fertilized regularly like flowers and shrubs, but they do require a certain level of maintenance. Without the necessary care, your trees may become sick, unattractive, or a danger to your property or home. Here is what is necessary to maintain all of the trees on your property.
Pruning & Trimming
Pruning is an essential element of tree care, especially if you want your trees to be attractive. Trees generally grow far more branches than is good for them. In nature, branches crowd one another out, die, and fall as the tree grows.
In your yard, you don't want old branches to die and fall. Instead, you want to shape the growth of a tree so that it remains healthy and shapely and doesn't drop debris in your yard. Light trims may be performed any time of year, but it is best to do heavy pruning such as that required to thin a tree's canopy in the winter when the tree is dormant.
If there has been a branch suddenly damaged by a storm, it is essential that it be pruned before it grows weak and drops. Such branches may fall completely unexpectedly once they have dried sufficiently.
Cabling
Cabling is the least well-known area of tree maintenance and it will not be necessary for most trees. That said, when cabling is useful, it can do things that nothing else can do to save a tree or get it to grow the way you want it to.
A professional residential tree service company can cable a tree to prevent a branch or the entire tree from falling or direct it if it does fall. Cabling can also encourage a tree to grow in a particular direction, keep branches from resting on roofs or other structures, etc.
Residential Tree Removal and Stump Services
Sometimes, trees cannot be pruned or cabled, but need to be entirely removed. Cutting down trees is often not the hardest part of tree removal. Instead, getting rid of the stump that remains when the tree has been cut down maybe the hardest part.
Professional and potentially dangerous equipment and techniques are required to either pull out a stump by stump removal or grind a stump down until it is no longer an obstacle in your yard. While you may think that it is okay to leave a stump to rot in your yard, it is likely to attract insects and disease which may affect your other trees or even your home, so stumps should always be ground or removed promptly after a tree is cut down for falls.
Cutting Down Trees Around Your Home
Trees offer an awful lot to our residential homes. They provide beauty, shade, and attract wildlife like birds and squirrels. Unfortunately, there are times when you may need to remove trees. Here are some occasions when residential tree removal may be necessary.
Volunteer Trees
If you've ever maintained a flower or vegetable bed, you know how rapidly weeds can become established if you are not deliberate about pulling them out as soon as they start. Unwanted trees can also grow very quickly, and if a previous homeowner was not diligent about removing unwanted trees, you may have a fair amount around your home.
Volunteer trees can be dangerous because they are not chosen deliberately. They may fall over more easily, have short lifespans, grow in a less-than-ideal location, or otherwise be a bad choice for your home.
Sick of Damaged Trees
If a tree has become sick with disease or has been damaged by a storm or anything else, you may decide to remove the tree so that it will not fall over, make your other trees sick, or because it is an eyesore. If there is a tree on your property that isn't doing well, it is best to remove it before it causes problems. Remove a tree at the first sign that it is failing.
Trees Growing Too Close to Obstacles
Whether a tree was planted deliberately in a badly planned location or has simply gotten bigger than you expected, sometimes trees grow into obstacles and pruning isn’t an option. If there is a tree too close to your home, air conditioning unit, or electrical lines, you may decide to have the tree removed before it interferes with anything.
Thinning Trees for Their Own Health
If trees are growing too close together, they complete for nutrients, water, and light. They can impede one another's growth, resulting in trees that are less healthy, spindly and unattractive, and which block out light. If you have a cluster of trees that are growing close together, you can create a much more attractive landscape by thinning trees so that only the most attractive and largest remain to grow unimpeded.
Do it Yourself or Hire a Professional Residential Tree Service Company?
If you are of the self-help mentality, you may wonder whether you can take care of your trees’ needs by yourself. If you have a chainsaw and are accustomed to taking care of small shrubs and trimming hedges yourself, you may think that taking on a tree isn't that big of a deal.
It is possible to take care of small trees yourself, provided you are skilled in the use of a chainsaw, but it is extremely dangerous to take on trees that are much taller than yourself. For the sake of your tree’s development, it may be best to let a professional take care of all of your tree needs, even smaller trees.
Residential Tree Service is Dangerous
Working on trees can be very dangerous. In the period between 1992 and 2007, 1,285 people died while working with trees. The majority of these deaths are of people working for very small establishments who may not have as much experience as is needed.
44% of people died while trimming or pruning a tree, so don't think that only cutting down a tree is dangerous. You can easily be hurt when a section of trunk or a branch strikes you, which accounts for 42% of all deaths. If you need to remove or prune a tree that is large enough to fall and hurt you, it really is best to let a professional take care of it.
Tree Care Requires Expertise
Pruning and cutting down a tree may seem straightforward and like it shouldn’t require a lot of knowledge and education, but in fact, it takes a lot of expertise in order to be an effective arborist and to prune trees appropriately.
Pruning a tree determines its shape for life, so mistakes made early in a tree’s life may permanently disfigure or weaken the tree. Regardless of whether you feel physically capable of pruning a tree or not, it is important to consider whether you are skilled enough to do a great job. The trees on your property are an asset, and you want them looking their best.
Choosing a Residential Tree Service Professional
Choosing a residential tree service professional is a huge decision. Whether you need residential tree removal, trimming and pruning, or cabling, you need a company that is skilled, affordable, and has the availability to get the job done for you.
Kinnucan Tree services are extremely experienced, with the knowledge they need to provide the highest quality residential Tree Service. They can perform everything that your trees need to be healthy, including pruning and trimming, tree removal and stump grinding or removal, cabling, and emergency service due to storm damage.
Kinnucan employs certified tree care professionals and believes in teaching their workers the most advanced safety tactics and strategies to cope with an industry that has known safety issues. They are also accredited by the TCIA, with the difficult to acquire seal of approval to show that they are a recognized tree care company with the highest standards of excellence set by their trade association.
Kinnucan knows that every cut counts when pruning your trees and that one bad cut can ruin your tree’s shape and health. Kinnucan employees are certified arborists who specialize in the preservation and care of trees. Furthermore, continuing education guarantees that their pruning specialists know just the right cuts to make for your trees.
Call Kinnucan Tree Experts - Residential Tree Service Today
If you want the best for your trees, and even if you are just curious about learning more about what the recommended tree care for your property would be, call Kinnucan at 847-234-5327 or fill out a Contact Form to connect with us. You can meet a certified arborist and get a sense of what your trees need and how much it will cost.