Barts Tree Service removing a two trunk oak tree with a heavy lean directly over a new carport. Unfortunatly many years ago the driveway was backfilled a couple feet around this tree so it had developed root rot and was just a matter of time before it crushed the carport and hit the house. Remember that a red oak log 30″ in diameter by 12″ long weighs 300lbs so just the trunk of this tree alone weighed 4 to 5 tons not to mention limb and leave weight so there is a good chance this tree is going all the way through the house. Thats why sometimes a smaller looking defect compounded by location, size and lean causes us to categorize it as a hazardous tree. On a lighter note the client was very happy to get rid of the 20 bushels of acorns he was blessed with annually in the driveway.

Removing this tree took a little longer than normal since we had to rig all the larger limbs with two ropes coming out of separate trees so as to keep all the material horizontal while lowering it away from carport and into the chipper.

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Three large trees were uprooted by wind in Ridgefield CT and wound up ripping the underground electrical  service out. So Barts Tree Service was called to remove the trees, we had two Barts Tree Service trucks, two CL&P trucks and another with an excavator so we pretty much had the road all closed down. We had to wait for the wires to be disconnected so as to ensure the trees were not energized and then let the cutting begin. Additionally we had to dump 5 yards of gravel into the whole where the root ball took out half the driveway so I could get my stump grinder in close enough to grind away the stump.

Here is our first pass at using the new helmet cam to give you a birds eye view of removing a tree. We will continue to create new videos especially with all these storms we’ve been having so be sure to check back often.

We were called to remove a large sugar maple tree in Ridgefield CT that was about 80 years old and unfortunately suffering from crown dieback. Since it is located in the back yard of a children’s day care center it was decided to remove the tree since it was on a steady rate of decline and posing a hazard.  As you will see by the pictures this tree had some rather interesting growth patterns with so many vertical limbs, which would have been a very good candidate for pruning in its younger years so as to develop better structure. 

So this one took about 5 hours to cut and clean everything up in the oh so lovely hot humid weather that day. Additionally Barts Tree Service will be grinding and removing the 4 foot stump along with the 12 foot circle of surface roots so the client can have nothing but green grass back there.

We were called to remove an old oak tree in Norwalk that was 65” across and had an old lighting strike injury that was killing the tree and creating a significant hazard since it was located 15 feet from two houses and the power lines. We had an interesting noteworthy first on this job. The homeowner was video web conferencing his family in India and showing them the different stages of the tree coming down real-time while he walked around the yard with his laptop in hand. I thought that was pretty cool.                                         Maybe we should get helmet cams for when we climb??

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