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TreeTec

Tree service · Central Minnesota 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

Insured
Liability & workers' comp
Voted
Best of Dassel-Cokato 2026
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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.

Aerial view of a TreeTec grapple truck with the boom fully extended, loading brush on a field road in central Minnesota
Grapple truck loading a shelterbelt row · Wright County
TreeTec operator working from a spider lift in a tree canopy

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.
TreeTec excavator fitted with a grapple attachment working a treeline

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.
TreeTec grapple truck with the boom extended, loading wood

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.
TreeTec compact track loader on a clearing site

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.
Spider lift working a shelterbelt · shot on the job, June 2026

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.

  1. Read the tree Root plate, base, unions and the pattern of dieback. They point at different causes.
  2. Pick the method Climb it, lift it, or pick it with the crane. That choice is most of the price.
  3. Give you the options Treat, prune, monitor or remove, with what each one costs and what waiting does.
  4. Do it on the day And if weather moves us, you hear it from us first.
TreeTec operator in a lift basket working a limb while the excavator grapple holds it, above a barn roof
Two machines, one limb, nobody underneath it

Towns we work in

Cokato is the shop. Orange pins are jobs we can show you photos of.

MEEKER WRIGHT MCLEOD CARVER
Cokato
Dassel
Darwin
Hutchinson
Glencoe
Annandale
Howard Lake
Waconia
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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
24-hour emergency line
(320) 296-4869

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Most of the time that is all we need to tell you what it will take. Free estimates, on site, no pressure.

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