Tree Cutting & Trimming Services

Professional Tree Pruning in Worcester, Massachusetts

It’s important to regularly trim or prune your trees as it’s necessary to keep your trees healthy, aesthetically pleasing, and safe. The professionals at Worcester Tree Trim and Removal will assist you by providing you with expert tree removal and tree trimming services so your trees will flourish. Our services offer to enhance the beauty of your yard, promote healthy and thriving trees, and ensure your home is protected from harm.

Tree trimming is both a science and an art. We have a vast understanding of tree biology, how trees grow, and when to do what in each season. When you improperly prune a tree, it may cause irreversible damage, making the tree susceptible to diseases, decay, and structural problems. For this reason, our staff adheres to ANSI A300 guidelines, which allow us to make cuts that are good for the tree’s overall health while also meeting your aesthetic and safety needs.

Our team offers a variety of pruning services, which include regular upkeep, preventative measures against storm damage, creating views through trimming, and corrective trimming of young growing trees. Regardless of the size of the job we take, we strive to deliver the best results to protect your landscaping investment. Whether you need to remove or trim the delicate ornamental species found in the Worcester area or if you have a large hardwood tree, we have the expertise and specialized equipment to safely and effectively remove or trim any tree, regardless of the species or its size.

The Importance of Professional Tree Trimming

Trimming regularly is vital in ensuring that you have well-kept, attractive trees on your property that will increase its value. Pruning in a proper manner produces an excellent structural condition of the tree; keeps the tree from contracting diseases; eliminates safety issues; and maintains or restores the natural shape of your trees. If the trees are neglected with respect to trimming, they may develop structural defects, be more vulnerable to wind and storms, and present additional risks to people and other properties.

Pruning by professionals involves much more than just cutting limbs. The certified arborist will know what type of cut the tree responds to best, what time of year to trim for maximum benefit, and what limbs to cut to meet the specific objectives of each client. Poorly done pruning can severely damage a tree, produce additional safety issues, and lower the value of a property.

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Crown Cleaning

Crown cleaning is a fundamental part of maintaining healthy trees; it involves removing dead, dying, diseased, and broken branches within all areas of the tree’s crown. Crown cleaning will improve your tree’s overall health, eliminate potential hazards in regards to falling branches, and enhance your tree’s aesthetic appeal by removing unsightly dead/diseased branches.

Each tree is inspected on site for dead, diseased, or broken branches that may be harboring disease, attracting insects, or breaking off at an unanticipated time (and cause personal or property damage). Branches with no life left to them are especially hazardous as they can split and fall without notice, potentially resulting in serious injury or damage to surrounding property. The process of regular tree crown cleaning eliminates hazards, increases air movement throughout the canopy, and allows more sunlight into the area of the canopy.

Crown Thinning

Crown thinning is the process of selectively removing branches to decrease the total number of branches within a tree’s canopy, while preserving the tree’s natural size, shape & form. Crown thinning improves light penetration into the interior of the tree and throughout the surrounding landscape area, as well as reduces wind resistance through the tree’s canopy, which can cause structural damage from high winds during storms.

To properly perform crown thinning, our arborist will carefully select the branches to be removed. The arborist will remove branches to preserve the natural form of the tree while reducing the density of the tree’s canopy. A maximum of 25% of the live crown may be removed at one time to ensure the tree remains healthy & vigorous.

Crown Reduction

When we perform a crown reduction on a tree, it means that we are reducing the total amount of foliage in the tree’s canopy by carefully pruning the tree with specialized techniques, so that the shape of the tree remains as close to its original form as possible. We use this more advanced method of pruning to reduce the size of a tree when the tree has grown too big for the area it is in, presents an obstacle to clearing, or needs to be reduced for safety purposes.

A key difference between a crown reduction and topping is that the former does not kill the tree (as topping will), but rather, makes lateral branch cuts that are large enough to act as terminals and continue to support the growth of the tree. Our arborist will choose the correct point(s) to make the reductions at and also ensure the tree maintains its natural taper and form while still reducing the overall height of the tree.

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Dormant Season Pruning

Winter pruning is generally the best time to prune trees (most tree species) as well as perform your more extensive pruning jobs. This is because it is a less stressful time for trees to be pruned; additionally, there will be no leaves on trees, which will allow you to see the branches much better and identify problems with them that would have been obscured by foliage.

Dormant season pruning reduces the potential for spreading diseases and attracting insects as well. Structural pruning, crown reduction, and all other corrective pruning should be done in the dormant season. We take full advantage of the opportunity to provide optimal conditions for your trees by working through the winter months as long as the weather allows us to do so.

Growing Season Maintenance

Pruning during the active growing season is a way of addressing potential hazards while removing the dead or damaged branches that appear over time. The growing season is when light pruning helps maintain trees as they grow in an environment free from disease and pest problems between the larger seasonal pruning projects.

Growing season work is focused on providing corrective pruning to address minor issues, such as deadwood and storm damage, and to remove some minor damage caused by pests or disease, thereby improving tree health. However, we do not perform heavy pruning during the active growing period because it will cause undue stress to the tree and result in excessive sap loss.

Equipment and Safety Standards

Professional Climbing Equipment

We utilize a wide variety of equipment, including professional climbing gear designed with the specific needs of arboriculture in mind. The gear we use is designed to help protect our workers while they climb trees. Our equipment, which includes ropes, harnesses, helmets, and saws, meets or exceeds the current OSHA standards and regulations for the industry. We inspect and maintain this equipment regularly to ensure it continues to operate properly under all working conditions.

We also use advanced rigging systems to safely lower heavy branches and large pieces of wood from heights above the ground. We have found these systems to be extremely useful when operating in areas that have structures such as vehicles, buildings, or landscape features that need to be protected during our tree pruning operations.

Cutting Tool Technology

We use state-of-the-art chain saws (pneumatic), ultra-sharp bypass loppers, and high-quality, professional-grade pneumatic pruning shears, as well as high-performance cutting tools to allow precision pruning that helps promote quick recovery. In addition to utilizing the best cutting tools available today, we also have the most current technology available to climb tall trees. Our crews use a variety of different equipment, such as a “spike” pole, an extension ladder, and aerial lifts. The combination of these equipment types and the proper training of our staff enables us to complete large-scale thinning and reductions on the tallest and most difficult to access trees.

In addition to utilizing the best cutting equipment available, we also maintain our equipment regularly and sanitize it so that disease from one tree does not spread to another tree. In conjunction with our equipment, we use the best type of climbing hardware and safety equipment to keep our employees safe while they work. The equipment we use allows us to remove branches and limbs safely and with the highest degree of professionalism, in compliance with current arboriculture standards.