A Tree Surgeon is a Jamul tree service company founded in 2010. Arborists with the company can take care of bonsai trimming, disease management, pest management, artistic shaping, trimming, and palm tree skinning. Additional services include crown reduction, crown restoration, deep root feeding, fertilizing, consultations, stump grinding, stump removal, tree cabling, chipping, property clearing, and custom tables made from stumps.
Founded more than 20 years ago, All Tree Care is a San Diego tree service company. Workers are certified tree workers that are licensed and insured. Services include tree care, trimming, shaping, thinning, reduction, pruning, installation, removal, stump grinding, root grinding, clean up, and cutting firewood.
Arbor Task Tree Service San Diego caters to residents and business owners in the city and the neighboring communities. Equipped with industry-grade tools and machinery, the company performs a variety of services, including tree trimming and removal, stump grinding, root pruning, and shrub and hedge pruning. Its specialists manage the health of various types of trees and remove those that are fire hazards. The business also offers land clearing and management services. It has been operating for over 20 years.
Big Branch Tree Service is a San Diego contractor that caters to homeowners and businesses in and around the city. It offers to trim and prune different types of trees to encourage growth or remove unwanted branches. It can also remove trees and stumps obstructing the view. The company employs a team of trained arborists with over 25 years of combined experience. Aside from tree removal, the team can also recommend suitable tree plantations based on the soil type and fertility of the land.
Serving Lemon Grove and surrounding areas for more than 15 years, Charles Tree Service Inc. is a residential and commercial tree service company. Charles Tree Service can take on pruning, tree trimming, tree removal, limb reduction, tree thinning, and stump grinding.
Crown Point Clippers, Inc., serves clients in San Diego. It provides tree maintenance solutions to private homeowners and businesses. The company's field technicians eliminate invasive, diseased, and dead trees. They also trim overhanging branches that are posing property damage risks. Additionally, they perform stump grinding, root pruning, lacing, thinning, and lot clearing procedures. The company is a family-owned and family-operated business that has been in the tree management industry for over 43 years. It is a member of the TCIA.
Deluxe Tree Trimming serves residential and commercial clients in San Diego. Its crew helps property owners who want to keep their trees neat by providing regular maintenance. It prunes branches to prevent them from hitting lamp posts. Clients can also hire the firm to remove dead or dying trees, along with trees that are dangerously close to fences, gas lines, and property foundations. In addition, its team offers emergency tree trimming to deal with hazardous branches.
Green Leaf Tree Care Inc. is a family business serving the San Diego area’s tree service needs for over 30 years. The company prides itself on delivering excellent customer service through honest tree evaluations and quality work. Services include crown reduction, crown restoration, crown thinning, fertilizing, hedge trimming, monthly landscape maintenance, palm trimming, palm skinning, plant health consults, planting, stump grinding, tree removal, weed abatement, and fire safety clearance.
Higuera Tree Care caters to homeowners and business owners in San Diego. Its technicians cut branches to keep them from hitting power lines. They remove trees that are disintegrating because of termites or disease, as well as trees that could make contact with underground pipes, sidewalks, and foundations. Clients can hire the team to grind down stumps so that new foliage and grass can be installed. The company provides its workers with professional-grade equipment to conduct tree services safely.
LC Tree Service is a residential and commercial contractor catering to the outdoor needs of properties in San Diego. Its ISA-certified arborists keep outdoor spaces safe by removing dead trees, grinding stumps, and responding to emergency tree removal requests. They also trim shrubs and hedges and climb tall trees to prune them and remove dead limbs. The company is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. It is a member of the SCA and was established in 2008.
Ocean Beach Arborists is a company that serves residents in San Diego. Its specialists provide a range of tree services for homes and businesses, which include planting, transplanting, lacing, pruning, trimming, and removal. They also install braces, cables, and root barriers, as well as treat diseases and eliminate pests. The company offers 24/7 emergency response and handles storm damage cleanup. Before establishing his business, owner and arborist Justin Coppola worked as a habitat manager for National Audubon Center in Connecticut.
Founded in 1975, One Tripp Tree Service is a contractor that serves residential, commercial, governmental, and municipal establishments in the San Diego metro and neighboring communities. It provides clients with a variety of services, including tree trimming, pruning, and crowning. Its team also offers tree removal with the use of various methods, such as with the aid of a crane or a rope. In addition, it handles brush management and stump grinding. One Tripp Tree Service also provides 24-hour emergency services.
Ryken Tree Service is an El Cajon tree service company with over 30 years of experience. Ryken Tree Service prides itself on delivering a finished product, including area clean up. Services by licensed and certified arborists include tree removal, stump removal, arborist services, tree pruning, crown reduction, hazard reduction, trimming, shaping, emergency services, storm work, and hazard work.
San Diego Tree Care Inc. has specialized in tree pruning, trimming, tree removal, stump grinding, root pruning, bio barrier, brush cleaning, shrub pruning, hedge pruning, and commercial maintenance since 2002. San Diego Tree Care estimators are certified arborists. Additionally, the company is licensed and insured, and former customers rave about quality service and and excellent work.
San Diego tree service company, TC Environmental Service is a family owned and operated business with over 20 years of experience. The company provides a range of services including stump grinding, tree trimming, tree removal, bush removal, tree planting, hedge shaping, safety pruning, hazard reduction, fertilization, cleanups, root barrier installation, landscape service, irrigation systems, planting design, bed preparation, and landscape lighting.
Ted Safford & Son, Arborists, is a San Diego tree service company founded in 1979. The company’s services include pruning, shaping, crown reduction, tree removal, stump grinding, palm tree maintenance, root pruning, deep root fertilization, cabling, bracing, tree planting, disease diagnosis, and consultations. The team is licensed, insured, and workers are certified arborists.
Three Men And A Tree Inc. serves the neighborhoods of San Diego and the surrounding communities. The company offers a variety of tree services, including crown thinning, which produces a uniform density of foliage around branch structures, and tree lacing, which increases light penetration and air movement. Its technicians perform crown reduction to decrease the tree's height, structure pruning to prevent lower branches from growing too large, and crown cleaning to remove dead, dying, or diseased branches. The company cares for trees of various shapes and sizes.
Tree Service of San Diego is a contractor in the metro that specializes in tree pruning, removal, and trimming services for residential and commercial spaces. The company has been in the industry for more than 30 years and has served more than 700 clients in the area. Its other services include tree maintenance, shrub cleanup, tree landscaping, and palm tree removal. It also has experience conducting tree maintenance for specific industries and spaces such as golf courses, residential complexes, and HOAs.
Tree Service San Diego is a locally owned and operated company that has been in the industry for more than 20 years. It removes unwanted trees from properties, or trims their more hazardous branches to minimize risks to homeowners and structures. Pruning and thinning are also carried out to clear sightlines, improve the flow of sunlight, and enhance circulation within canopies. The company's ISA-certified arborists also provide comprehensive lot clearing, with procedural options specifically designed for wildfire protection and management.
Westwind Landscape has nearly 30 years of experience in the San Diego area as a tree service company. Serving large and small residential and commercial properties, the company takes pride in consistently exceeding expectations. Westwind Landscape’s services include landscape, maintenance, synthetic turf, and tree services. The company can take care of stump grinding, trimming, tree removal, and more.
Some landscapers may offer this service, but most won’t. Tree trimming and other large lawn services require specific credentials, special equipment, and the correct insurance to cover risks to the workers. Your safest option is to hire a fully licensed, certified tree service professional.
Tree service companies are trained to care for trees. They handle anything from trimming trees to removing dead limbs, cutting them down and removal, clearing brush, and other services that serve the health of the trees and the needs of their customers.
Different trees have different pruning schedules. Young trees need to be shaped more frequently than mature trees. Plan on having a full professional pruning done every two years on younger trees. Mature trees should be trimmed every three to five years. Fruit-bearing trees need to be cut back annually in order to encourage the best production of fruit, while some evergreens can go as many as seven years before needing to be trimmed.
The time varies depending on the size and depth of the stump. Most stumps can be completely removed in 30 minutes to two hours.
An arborist is a tree expert with special training and education in the care and nutrition of trees and other woody plants. Unlike tree service companies, arborists can do things like perform surgery to remove diseased parts of trees and advise on the right nutrient mix in a tree's soil.
A certified arborist has met the qualifications for certification from the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). To become ISA certified, an arborist has to have over three years in the field and pass an exam to demonstrate their expertise in tree care and nutrition.
It isn’t necessary to have a stump ground down. However, if you don’t have this service done, you’ll be left with a stump in your yard, as a tree can’t be cut down flush with the level of the grass. Stump grinders are heavy-duty machinery — don’t attempt it yourself. Call a tree service expert instead if you have stumps in your yard.
Many tree service companies work weekends or after regular work hours, depending on how much daylight will be left for them to safely work. Tree service pros realize that many people work outside the home and have limited hours in which to have work done.
When a tree care job needs to take the health of the tree into account, a certified arborist is best suited to handle it. Generally, an arborist will charge more for their services than a standard tree service company because of their experience and credentials.
This happens rarely, if ever. There are generally no reasons for tree services to require money upfront. If the company asks for a deposit before beginning the job, hire a different company.
If there is suspected dead or diseased wood on a tree or it needs seasonal pruning, it's better for an arborist to handle the job. If the trimming is superficial — for example, to keep smaller branches from obstructing nearby buildings — an experienced tree service can do the job reliably.
Most tree service companies only work on trees or tree stumps that are already in your yard. Some companies may offer tree planting as well, but the most likely scenario is that you’ll need to call a specialized tree planting service.
There are a few questions you need to ask a tree removal service before agreeing to hire them for a job.
Most professional tree services follow best safety practices. If branches and other debris will be falling, the company will rope off the area so no one else can come in. However, if your home is very close to your neighbor’s house, you may want to let them know the day before the job that they want to be extra careful walking in front of or around your home.
Before hiring a tree service to do a job on their property, verify that the company has insurance for general liability, including accidental damage to your home or other structures on your property, as well as worker's compensation insurance for potential injuries to employees while on the job.
Your city may require permits for certain tree services. They may also prohibit certain projects. For example, your city may not allow trees designated “heritage trees” to be cut down. Call your city or county for more information.
The simplest way to verify that a tree service company is bonded and/or insured is to request a copy of a certificate of proof before hiring them. If they can't produce proof of insurance, find a service that can.
It is not required to tip your tree service professional, and the tree service company probably won’t expect it. However, if you feel the tree service has gone out of their way to make your experience a good one, you may decide to tip each worker, or to give one tip when paying your bill. If you do decide to tip, cash is best.
The cost of an arborist consultation depends on the level of examination needed. A simple inspection can cost around $100 while a full health check and analysis of tree condition, soil nutrition, and other factors can cost around $500 or more.
The cost of tree removal varies based on the size of the tree, the difficulty of the project, and other factors such as whether added removal and stump grinding are part of the job. The average cost of tree removal is around $750, with larger jobs reaching the thousands.
The cost of a tree trimming job depends on the size of the tree. The average cost for trimming a medium-sized tree is around $175, a small tree can cost as little as $50, and a large tree can cost over $1,000, depending on the rates of the tree service.
Some tree service process the wood they remove from peoples' properties themselves, grinding them and selling wood chips to their customers. Other companies separate the wood by grade and sell them to lumber mills to be processed and sold as lumber for building.
A Level 5 Arborist is a designation in the Australian tree care industry describing an arborist who has reached the highest level of accreditation in their field. It's not a recognized title for an arborist outside of Australia, even when ISA-certified arborists in another country reach an equivalent level.
In order to become an arborist, a person must receive an accredited degree in arboriculture, horticulture, landscape architecture, or forestry. Technically, an arborist without ISA certification can practice, but many jobs in the field go to certified practitioners.
To receive the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certification, an arborist must have experience and pass a certification test. The experience needed depends on relevant education. For example, a person with an associate's degree needs only two years of additional experience, and with a bachelor's degree, it's one additional year.
In most regions, tree services are not required to be licensed, but this varies from state to state. Many tree service companies decide to seek licensing — or hire licensed practitioners — because it helps their reputation with prospective customers.
