Wright County · MN

Tree Service in Cokato, MN

TreeTec is a tree service in Cokato, Minnesota, and this is where the trucks are parked. Our shop is on Cokato St E, which means most of the town is a few minutes away and we can usually get eyes on a tree the same week you call.

Wright County Our shop is here Highway 12Cokato Lake

Tree work in Cokato

Cokato sits on Highway 12 in the southwest corner of Wright County, with the lake on the south side of town. Working here means two fairly different kinds of job. In town, the older residential streets are lined with mature trees planted close to houses that were built long before anybody thought about what a silver maple does at sixty years old, so most of that work is technical: rigging over roofs, garages and power drops with very little room to put anything on the ground. Out past the edge of town it changes completely. Acreages, farmsteads, shelterbelts and field edges, where the grapple truck can drive right up and a tree can simply be felled. The other constant here is ash. Emerald ash borer has worked through this part of Wright and Meeker county, and a large share of what we do in Cokato now is deciding which ash are still worth injecting and taking out the ones that are not.

Tree Removal in Cokato

Removals are the bulk of our Cokato work, and the ones people call about are almost always the awkward ones: a tree over a house, a garage or a service drop. That is what the hazardous removal side of the business exists for.

Removal is the biggest part of what we do, and the jobs people call about are usually the awkward ones. If there is no room to drop it, see hazardous tree removal. If it is an ash, ash removal covers the treat-or-remove decision. And if you want a number before anyone comes out, the instant estimate takes about a minute.

What we do in Cokato

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. The phone gets answered and someone comes to look.
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.

Tree service in Cokato: common questions

Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Cokato?

For a tree on your own property, generally no. Trees in the boulevard between the sidewalk and the street are a different matter, since those are usually city property and the city decides what happens to them. We check with the city for your address before scheduling anything near a right of way.

How quickly can you get to a tree in Cokato?

Faster than anywhere else we work, because the shop is here. For a straightforward estimate we can usually be there within a day or two, and for storm damage in town we are minutes away rather than driving in from somewhere else.

Can you do work out on the acreages around Cokato?

Yes, and a lot of our work is rural rather than in town. Field edges, fence lines, shelterbelt rows and yard trees on farmsteads. That work is generally faster and cheaper than town work because there is room to fell trees whole and the truck can get right to them.

Should I treat my ash trees in Cokato or take them out?

It depends on how much canopy is left. An ash that still has most of its crown is worth injecting and keeping. Once it is past about half, treatment stops being a good investment and removal is the better spend. Our arborist will tell you which side of that line each tree is on.

Work from around the area

Tree fallen across the rear roofline of a Hutchinson house with a garden shed alongside

Hutchinson, MN

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.

Large tree down across the lawn of a Dassel farmhouse after a storm

Dassel, MN

Tree down across the yard

A big yard tree came over toward a two-storey farmhouse and laid out across the lawn, crown up against the siding.

Knuckleboom crane lifting a log section from a wooded hillside above a lake near Dassel, Minnesota

Dassel, MN

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.

Get a free estimate in Cokato

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

Call (612) 472-8733 Request an estimate