Tree service · Central Minnesota Tree service · Wright, Meeker, McLeod & Carver counties One call, and it's not your problem anymore.
Tree removal, trimming, stump grinding and storm cleanup out of Cokato, across Central Minnesota. Free on-site estimates quoted by an ISA Certified Arborist, or get a number first in three taps with the instant estimate. Mats where the ground needs them, and the wood carried out instead of dragged across your lawn.
24-hour emergency line (320) 296-4869
Half of it · the equipment
The right machine for the tree.
Doing this well is two things: the right equipment and the experience to use it. Here is the first half. It is the difference between a crew climbing a dead ash and a machine holding it while somebody cuts.
Spider lift
- Heavy
- Puts an operator over the roofline and into canopy nobody should climb. It is the reason we take dead ash other crews will not.
- Light
- Rolls through a gate on turf tires, and the outriggers set on mats where the ground is soft.
Excavator with grapple
- Heavy
- Holds a section while it is cut. On clearing work it does in an hour what a crew with saws does in a day.
- Light
- The wood rides out in the grapple, so nothing gets skidded across the lawn.
Grapple trucks
- Heavy
- The boom lifts whole sections over a shed or a fence line, straight into the box.
- Light
- The truck stays on the street or the driveway. The boom does the walking.
Compact track loader
- Heavy
- Takes the attachments that turn brush into chips where it lies, then moves the pile.
- Light
- Low ground pressure on wide tracks, made for soft yards and lake lots.
Heavy where it works. Light where you live.
Equipment is not a brag, it is a method. A machine holding a limb is a limb that cannot swing. A grapple carrying wood out is wood that never gets dragged across your lawn. And a lift means nobody has to tie into a tree that has been dead for two winters.
- Fewer people under the tree The machine takes the load, so the crew is not standing where the wood is.
- Less damage to the yard Turf tires on the lift, mats wherever the ground needs them. Wood gets carried, not skidded.
- Jobs in one visit Cut, load and haul with the same kit, instead of coming back for the pile.
- Trees other crews decline Dead ash, tight back yards and anything over a roof.
The other half · the experience
Owning the machine is not the same as knowing which one to bring.
TreeTec's founder learned this trade in West Coast tree service before bringing it home to Cokato. Out there the trees are bigger, the stakes are higher, and the method matters more than the muscle. That is the eye that looks at your tree.
It is why plenty of the calls we get end without a removal. An ash with most of its canopy is worth injecting. A lean that has been there thirty years is usually just a lean. A thinning crown is as often drought as it is a beetle.
Our ISA Certified Arborist looks at it before anything gets quoted, which is how you end up paying for the work you need rather than the work we happen to be equipped for.
- Read the tree Root plate, base, unions and the pattern of dieback. They point at different causes.
- Pick the method Climb it, lift it, or pick it with the crane. That choice is most of the price.
- Give you the options Treat, prune, monitor or remove, with what each one costs and what waiting does.
- Do it on the day And if weather moves us, you hear it from us first.
What we get called for
Tree removal, trimming, stumps and storm cleanup
Everything from one stump to a crane pick. The removals are what we are known for.
Tree Removal
Backyard trees through to hazardous removals that need rigging, a lift, or the grapple truck. If it is leaning over the house, start here.
Hazardous Removal
The removals with no room to drop. Trees over houses, power drops and tight yards, taken down in sections on ropes.
Ash Removal
Emerald ash borer is working through the ash in Wright and Meeker counties. Dead ash gets brittle fast, and waiting makes the job harder.
Emergency Service
Storm damage, split trunks and trees on structures. A grapple takes the weight off before anybody cuts.
Storm Cleanup
After the immediate danger is handled: hangers, broken tops, fence lines and the wood that is still lying where it landed.
Tree Trimming
Clearance, crown thinning and structural pruning, timed around the oak wilt window and cut to the collar.
Stump Grinding
Ground below grade so you can mow, replant, or rework the bed. Chips left or hauled, your call.
Land & Lot Clearing
Building sites, fence lines, buckthorn and acreage that has grown in. Selective where it should be.
Emerald Ash Borer
Trunk injection on a two year cycle for the ash worth keeping, and a straight answer about the ones that are not.
Recent jobs across four counties
Photographed on site, in the town it happened. Every orange pin on the map opens one of these.
Oak through the roof
A storm dropped a mature tree across the back of the house. The butt was hollow, so nothing about the failure was visible from the ground until it happened.
Tree down across the yard
A big yard tree came over toward a two-story farmhouse and laid out across the lawn, crown up against the siding.
Hillside clearing above the lake
Selective clearing on a steep wooded slope above the water, where nothing could be driven and everything had to be lifted out over the top.
Ash removal at a lake cabin
Two ash growing tight against a lake place, between the deck and the slope down to the water, with no room to put anything on the ground.
Dead tree over the house
A standing dead tree leaning over the roof, taken down in late winter while the ground was still frozen and the yard could take equipment.
Towns we work in
Cokato is the shop. Orange pins are jobs we can show you photos of.
Find us
The shop is in Cokato.
Same listing you would find on Google, with the phone that gets answered and the reviews we cannot edit.
TreeTec
225 Cokato St E
Cokato, MN 55321
- Google rating
- ★★★★★ 5.0 90+ reviews
- Hours
- Open 24 hours
- Phone
- (612) 472-8733
- 24-hour emergency line
- (320) 296-4869
Send us a photo of the tree.
Most of the time that is all we need to tell you what it will take. Free estimates, on site, no pressure.