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Pruning and Trimming

Pruning and trimming are important for the first five years of a tree’s life and should be performed annually to establish a healthy and attractive shape.  After that maintaining tree health incurs less frequent attention, plus as needed for hazard reduction.  We provide expert affordable tree trimming services combining various types of trimming depending on the particular species and individual tree.

• Clearing to remove dead wood, poorly attached branches, and broken or diseased branches. 
• Crown raising (removing lower branches) to improve clearance for vehicles, people, signs, and so on. 
• Crown reduction to improve structural integrity and reduce wind loading.  With up to a forth of branches removed this service requires extra skill and expert judgment. 
• Thinning to improve light penetration and air circulation as well as views. 
• Utility trimming to create clearance for overhead power, phone, and cable TV / internet lines.

Palms

We’re the Woodland Hills experts in the special care palm trees need.  We’ll eliminate the hazards of falling fronds and know exactly when palm tree trimming is needed to avoid those slippery and staining seeds.  We can also perform palm tree skinning for a groomed “Hollywood” look.

Tree Removal

While we treasure every tree, but sometimes there’s really no choice but to remove one.  It could be a matter of disease, heavy storm damage, posing a hazard to nearby structures and utilities, shade issues, or simply age.  Our tree removal service begins with safety planning and ends with full haul-away or grinding into mulch.  Large tree removal in Woodland Hills is subject to restrictions, requiring prior approval and a permit, and may require a re-planting.  We’ll take care of all of that as well.

Stump Removal

Even just a few inches of tree trunk left above ground is an eyesore, a tripping hazard, and a mowing inconvenience.  It may interfere with gardening and landscaping, and may attract insects (especially termites).  Chemical tree stump removal solutions pose an environmental hazard, take months to years, and may not be all that effective.  Other do-it-yourself methods are a lot of work.

Our stump grinding equipment uses sharp carbide blades to quickly remove stumps, including roots, all the way down to as deep as 20 inches.  It only takes a couple of hours and reduces everything to wood chips, that we can leave for your use or haul away.

When a Woodland Hills Tree Should Come Down

Removal is the last option, not the first one. A good arborist would rather save a tree than take it out, and plenty of the calls that start as a removal end as a pruning job instead. The tree that genuinely has to go usually announces itself: it is dead or in irreversible decline, the trunk carries significant damage, it has started to lean in a way it did not lean before, the root plate is failing, or disease and infestation have gone past the point where treatment helps. Trees growing too close to a house, a garage or a wall belong in the same conversation, and so do hazardous limbs sitting directly over something you care about. Our article Signs a Tree Needs to Be Removed works through each of those signs one at a time, including storm damage and crowding, and it is a better starting point than a guess made from the driveway.

If you are not sure which category your tree falls into, that is the normal position to be in, and it is exactly what an on-site look is for. We would rather assess a tree standing than be called back to clear it off a roof. Where a tree has already failed, or is failing now, our emergency tree service is the right route rather than a scheduled appointment.

Removal Work on a Woodland Hills Property

How a removal is carried out depends almost entirely on what is around the tree. Where there is room, a tree can be taken down in sections into a clear drop zone. On the tighter and steeper lots common here, the same tree has to be rigged down piece by piece, with the crew working around fences, pools, wires and neighboring roofs. Palms are their own job again, which is why they are listed separately on this page and on our tree removal services page. None of that can be priced sight unseen, which is why the estimate happens at the property.

Afterwards there is a stump to deal with and, on many hillside properties, ground that is worth clearing while the machinery is already there. Stump grinding takes the stump down below grade so the ground can be replanted or turned back into lawn, and brush clearing deals with the overgrowth that builds up under a canopy that has been in place for years. Tell us what you want the spot to look like when we leave, and use the request form on this page to get a crew out to see it.

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Known for our fair pricing, integrity, and expertise we’ve been trusted by home and business owners, home owner associations, and property managers in Woodland Hills for over 28 years.  Just check our reviews.  Family owned and operated, our team is courteous and professional, with a focus on detail and safety.