If you wish to maintain the health and structural integrity of your trees during construction, be prepared to be persistent and watchful while work is carried out. Understand that some of the symptoms of construction damage can develop slowly, over several years. Your best efforts now can prevent years of remediation. Physical Injury to Trunk and Crown: Construction equipment can harm the trunk and crown by breaking branches, tearing the bark, and wounding the trunk. Cutting of Roots: The roots of a mature tree typically grow away from the tree a distance of one to three times the spread of the branches.
Tree pruning is an art as well as a science. It can either help or hurt a tree. It is important that a tree trimming crew has both good training and good judgment. Our pruning / trimming crews are supervised by an ISA Certified Arborist, and we follow ISA Standards and Practices, ANSI A300 Pruning Standards, and ANSI Z133 Safety Standards. We believe in a less-is-more approach, and we will always choose to leave green material on the tree unless there is a good reason to remove it. In our opinion, each cut should be justified.
We own a very specialized one of a kind custom built crane which we use for tree removal. We have 25 years of experience using our custom crane, and other cranes in dynamic tree work. Dynamic crane work is routinely (10% of their work or more) done by less than 2% of crane operators in the world. I do over 95% of my crane work dynamically! Class I deadwood tree removal: Class I deadwood removal consists of removing dead, dying, or broken limbs and branches that are approximately one inch in diameter and larger.