Removing Tall Trees

Removing tall trees from around your home is imperative if you want to protect your property. The severe weather that often passes through the Northeast causes horrendous destruction in its wake from falling tall trees onto utility lines, homes, and automobiles. At least twice a year there is a repeat of this occurrence of this severe weather costing tax payers, utility companies, insurance companies, and home owners hundreds of millions of dollars for clean up and repair cost of these large trees.

Most of this damage and cost can be avoided by removing the trees that over reach utility lines and homes. Although during normal weather conditions and summer seasons the trees add beauty to the landscape and provide shade from the hot sun, the risk of home destruction must be weighed against the esthetics of having large trees close to houses.

The most hazardous are the conifer trees. They are mostly the pine and hemlock trees that grow throughout the Northeast and frequently are well over fifty feet tall. They have a very shallow root system which does not provide enough support for the tree to stand upright during high wind and heavy snow conditions. Very often they break off from wind gust and become a crashing tree. The second most hazardous is the deciduous tree. It has a very deep root system and stands up well in high wind and heavy snow conditions.

However, very large and old deciduous trees are often diseased or have very large limbs that can be as long as the tree is tall. They are usually maple or oak trees and are well over a hundred years old. Most have become weak from disease within their trunk structure which weakens them to the point that they cannot withstand sheer wind gusts or heavy snow. Frequently the large tree limbs break off which can upset the trees balance causing the whole tree to topple. These are of tremendous weight and cause extraordinary destruction when they come down onto houses and automobiles.

The only way to eliminate the destruction is to remove any tree that is in close proximity to your home and is of sufficient height to reach your home if it should come down. It simply isn’t worth the risk for a tree coming down through your house during a storm in the middle of the night. Even though you may have insurance to cover the repair cost, there is the threat of injury to family members. Insurance companies never seem to pay for all the damages and when there is wide destruction it’s very difficult finding a repair contractor that can respond immediately.

Landscaping trees that are approximately twenty to thirty feet tall that don’t present a hazard to your home in the event they should come down in a storm are perfectly fine and are encouraged to be planted. I recommend removing all other trees that are a potential hazard to your home, especially if they are aged deciduous trees or very tall conifer trees. Tree service specialists provide both tree cutting service and stump removal by stump grinding. Tree removal service specialists may be expensive but they may save you a lot of grief and cost in the event of hazardous weather.

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