Tree Trimming in Chatfield

Chatfield is a small city on the Root River in southeastern Fillmore County, known locally for its historic main street and as a gateway to Root River Trail country. Its housing stock leans older, with many homes from the late 1800s through mid-1900s on tree-lined streets in the original townsite. The wooded river bluffs surrounding the city create a lot of natural tree canopy that encroaches on residential lots. It's a stable, community-oriented town where people tend to maintain their properties well.

Rochester gets real winters. Ice storms hit the Southeast Heights and Folwell neighborhoods hard, and silver maple branches — which snap faster than most people expect — end up on roofs, fences, and power lines. A lot of the trees in this area were planted in the 1960s and 1970s when those neighborhoods were built, which means they're big now and overdue for attention. Ignoring overgrown or cracked limbs doesn't save money. It usually means a bigger cleanup bill later, or a call to your insurance company.

We look at the whole tree before we touch it — where the weight is sitting, which limbs are dead or cracked, and what's underneath. Cutting the wrong branch in the wrong order can split a trunk or drop a limb somewhere you didn't plan, so we work top-down with the right equipment for the size of the job.