Service · Cokato, Minnesota
Emergency Tree Service in Central Minnesota
Emergency tree service in Cokato and the surrounding towns usually starts the same way: a storm goes through overnight and something is on a roof, across a driveway, or hanging over where the kids play. The first thing you need is somebody to pick up. That is the part we built the business around, and it is the most common complaint we hear about the other outfits in the area.
What to do before we get there
Get everyone away from the tree and stay away from it, including the parts that look settled. A trunk resting on a roof is holding a lot of stored energy and it can move without warning when the wood shifts or the wind picks up again. If there is any wire involved, treat every line as live and call the utility. If the tree is on the house, take photos from a safe distance for your insurer before anything gets moved, because adjusters want to see it as it landed.
- Keep everyone clear, including from limbs that look settled
- Treat every downed wire as live and call the utility first
- Photograph the damage before anything is moved, for the insurer
- Do not try to cut anything that is under tension
- Call us and describe what you are looking at, or text a photo
Storm wood is under tension and that is the danger
The reason storm work is more dangerous than normal removal is that broken trees are loaded. A bent trunk, a limb pinned under another limb, a partly split crotch: all of these are storing energy, and cutting into one in the wrong place releases it instantly. That is what puts homeowners in the emergency room every summer around here. Broken tops hung up in the canopy are the same problem in a different form, because they can come free at any point. Those get roped and brought down under control, not poked at from below.
Making it safe first, cleaning up second
There are two separate jobs after a storm and they do not have to happen at once. The first is making the property safe: getting the tree off the structure, clearing the drive so you can get a vehicle out, and taking down anything hanging that could still fall. The second is the full cleanup, hauling and stump work, which can wait for a scheduled day. We split them when it makes sense, so you are not paying emergency rates for raking.
Insurance work
If a tree has hit a structure, your homeowners policy usually covers the removal as part of the damage claim. If it just fell in the yard and hit nothing, most policies do not cover it. We write our quotes so they can go straight to an adjuster, with the work itemized rather than lumped into one number, and we can talk to the adjuster directly if that is easier for you.
What you get
- The phone gets answered, which is the whole point
- Grapple truck to lift weight off a structure rather than cut on top of it
- Crew trained for loaded and tensioned storm wood
- Make-safe first, full cleanup scheduled separately if you prefer
- Itemized quotes written so an insurance adjuster can work from them
- Tarping available where a roof is opened up
How the job runs
Where we do this work
Emergency Service is something we do right across our area, out of the shop in Cokato. The towns we are in most often:
- Emergency Service in Cokato
- Emergency Service in Dassel (5 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Litchfield (17 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Hutchinson (22 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Annandale (14 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Maple Lake (18 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Howard Lake (7 miles from the shop)
- Emergency Service in Waverly (12 miles from the shop)
