Tree Service in Litchfield, MN

Tree work in Litchfield

Litchfield is laid out around the lake on its north side, and that shapes the tree work. The older residential grid closer to the center has the mature boulevard and yard trees you would expect in a town of this age, including a good many elm that survived the first wave of Dutch elm disease and are now at an age where they need watching. Lakeside lots are a different job again, with limited access and the usual shoreland considerations. Then there is everything outside town: Meeker County is farm country, so a lot of what we do here is shelterbelts, fence lines and yard trees on farmsteads, where there is room to work and the price reflects it. Because Litchfield is a county seat, we also get called for the trees nobody else in the area has the equipment for.

Our shop is at 225 Cokato St E in Cokato, roughly 17 miles away. We do not have an office in Litchfield and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What that distance actually buys you is that we are close enough to come and look at the tree properly rather than quoting it off a photo and hoping.

Tree Removal in Litchfield

Litchfield sends us a steady share of hazardous removals, generally mature trees that were planted close to houses decades ago and have now outgrown the space entirely.

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 Litchfield

• 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.