Tree Trimming in Plainview

Plainview is a small city in Wabasha County on MN-42, and it serves as a regional hub for the surrounding farming townships. It has a stable, older housing stock from the early-to-mid 1900s and a walkable main street that still functions as a local commercial center. Large silver maples and elms line many of the residential streets, and most of these trees are 50 or more years old. The surrounding agricultural land means open wind exposure on the town's edges.

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.