Tree Trimming in Stewartville

Stewartville sits about 12 miles south of Rochester on US-63 and has grown steadily as a bedroom community for Mayo Clinic workers. It has a mix of mid-century homes in its original townsite and newer subdivisions built in the 2000s and 2010s on the south and east ends. The Root River runs through the area, creating riparian tree issues along several residential streets. It's a tight-knit small city where word travels fast and quality work gets noticed.

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.