How Salt Lake City Tree Service Pros Approaches a Job

Salt Lake City Tree Service Pros takes down, prunes and grinds out trees for homeowners in Salt Lake City and the surrounding Salt Lake Valley, from the Avenues and Federal Heights on the foothill bench to Sugar House, Rose Park, Glendale and the suburbs to the south.

The first thing we do on any call is find out whose tree it is. Salt Lake City counts tens of thousands of street trees, and most of them grow in the park strip between the sidewalk and the curb. The city's Urban Forestry office says a permit is required before anyone removes, prunes or plants a tree in the public right-of-way, and some streets with no park strip still have city trees along the road. If the tree you called about looks like a city tree, we tell you that before we quote, and we give you the Urban Forestry number, (801) 972-7818, so you can ask the city to look at it. The city prunes park strip trees for safety and removes hazardous ones itself as a last resort.

For trees on your own lot, we come out and look. We check the species, the lean, dead wood, cracks, cankers, signs of borers and the yellow, veiny leaves that point to iron chlorosis in our alkaline soil. Then we look at what is around the tree: the roof, the detached garage, the fence line, the neighbor's yard, the alley, overhead wires and the route a crew would use to carry brush out. On a narrow lot in the Avenues or a tight backyard in Sugar House, that route often decides how a tree has to come down.

If a branch is touching or close to a power line, that part of the job belongs to Rocky Mountain Power. The utility asks people never to prune near lines and to call 1-888-221-7070 so its own arborists can look. We work on the rest of the tree once the line side is handled.

After the visit you get a written quote. Each tree has its own line: what will be done, how the wood and brush will be handled, whether the stump is included, and the price. Nothing gets cut until you approve the quote, and if something changes once work starts, such as rot found inside a trunk, we stop and talk with you before going on.

What you can expect

• A plain explanation of what is wrong with a tree, or that nothing is.
• Pruning cuts made just outside the branch collar, and no topping.
• Heavy limbs over roofs lowered on ropes instead of dropped.
• Brush chipped; logs left in rounds, cut to firewood length or hauled away, as you choose.
• Storm calls sorted by danger: trees on houses and blocked doors first.

Call (385) 217-6481 any time to leave the details and set up a free estimate.