The Way Cincinnati Tree Service Pros Does Tree Work

Cincinnati Tree Service Pros takes down, prunes and grinds out trees for homeowners in Cincinnati's 52 neighborhoods and the suburbs around them, from the river towns of Northern Kentucky to the townships of northern Hamilton County and southern Butler and Warren counties.

The work starts with a walk around the property. A tree on a flat lot in Blue Ash and the same tree on a hillside in Price Hill or Clifton are two different jobs. We look at the tree first (species, dead wood, cracks, fungus at the root flare, a lean that is new or old, ash trees with bark stripped by woodpeckers) and then at everything around it: the roof, the garage, the fence, the neighbor's yard, the Duke Energy service drop to the house, and the path a crew would use to carry or lower wood out. On steep Cincinnati lots, where the only way out may be a long set of steps to the street, access often shapes the plan more than the size of the tree does.

Whose tree is it?

We also sort out ownership before quoting. Trees in the tree lawn between the sidewalk and the curb are usually public trees, and in the City of Cincinnati anyone who wants to prune, remove or even work within 15 feet of a public tree needs a Public Tree Work Permit from Cincinnati Parks under Chapter 743 of the Municipal Code. Often the better answer is a 311 request, because the city's Urban Forestry program, paid for by the front-foot assessment on property tax bills, already prunes, removes and replaces street trees. If a tree is tangled in a primary power line, that is Duke Energy's job. For the service line that runs from the pole to your meter, Duke asks that the line be de-energized, at no cost to you, before anyone works near it.

The quote

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 is cut until you approve it, and if something changes once work starts (hidden decay, a nail-filled trunk, a root plate that turns out to be holding up a retaining wall) we stop and agree on the change with you before going on.

On the day

• Limbs over roofs and porches are tied off and lowered, not dropped.
• Plywood or mats go down where equipment crosses a lawn or a soft spot.
• On hillsides, we leave root systems in place unless you ask otherwise, because roots help hold the slope.
• Logs can stay as rounds, be cut to firewood length or leave with the chips.
• The yard is raked and blown off before we go.

You pay for the work you approved in writing. To set up a free estimate, call (513) 712-8578 or send the form with a few photos.