Tree Service in Boonville, NY

Tree Service in Boonville starts with snow. The village sits at about 1,142 feet on the Tug Hill Plateau, and the surrounding town averages roughly 164 inches of snowfall a year, most of it between December and February. Branches here spend months holding weight that trees farther south never see. We come up from Utica to take down failing trees, thin heavy crowns before winter and clean up after the storms that bring limbs onto roofs, driveways and fences.

What snow and ice do to a canopy

Wet lake-effect snow piles onto evergreen boughs and long horizontal limbs. A sound branch bends and recovers. A branch with a crack, a weak fork or internal decay often does not. The usual failures we look for in the Boonville area are:

• Co-dominant trunks on maples that split down the middle under load
• Long, unbalanced limbs reaching over a roof or garage
• Spruce and pine leaning after a heavy wet storm loosened the root plate
• Dead tops that drop chunks once the snow slides off

Most of this can be spotted from the ground in late summer or fall, which is the best time to fix it.

Two kinds of properties

The village itself is compact, only about 1.73 square miles, with homes set close together around the town square and Main Street. Out in the Town of Boonville, the picture changes: about 72 square miles, hamlets like Alder Creek and Hawkinsville, and the Black River along the eastern edge. On a village lot we usually rope limbs down piece by piece to protect neighboring houses. On a rural parcel we may have room to fell a tree whole, chip the brush and leave the wood cut to length for your stove.

Services we offer around Boonville

• Tree removal for dead, split or leaning trees near buildings
• Trimming and pruning to reduce weight and clear roofs before winter
• Emergency storm tree service when limbs come down on a home or block a driveway
• Stump grinding so the spot can be mowed or replanted
• Hazard tree assessment for trees you are unsure about
• Land and lot clearing for camps, driveways, sheds and new building sites

Ash trees and firewood

Emerald ash borer has been in New York since 2009 and has been confirmed in every county except Hamilton and Lewis, according to DEC. Most infested ash die within two to four years, and dead ash wood turns brittle fast, which makes removal riskier the longer it waits. New York limits moving firewood to within 50 miles of its source, so ash we cut on your property is best kept and burned locally. If you have ash with thinning tops or bark stripped by woodpeckers, have it looked at before another winter loads it up.

A woods-minded town

Boonville is home to the New York State Woodsmen's Field Days, founded in 1948 and held each August, so plenty of residents know how to run a saw. Cutting a small tree in the open is one thing; dropping a large, decayed tree next to a house, a power line or a historic building on the square is another. We bring the rigging, the climbing gear and the crew to take that kind of tree down in sections.

Getting an estimate

Call (315) 743-5662 or send photos of the tree and what is around it. We will come out, look at the tree and the access, and give you a written quote listing what gets cut, whether we haul the wood and brush, and whether stump grinding is included. Fall is a good time to schedule pruning, before the first big snow.

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