Tree Trimming in Holyoke

Holyoke is one of the oldest planned industrial cities in the United States, laid out on a grid in the 1840s along the Connecticut River to harness waterpower. Most of its residential housing stock is 19th and early 20th century, with large triple-deckers and mill worker row houses making up much of the cityscape. Street trees here are aging and in varying states of health. It has significant Puerto Rican and Latino cultural heritage and is currently investing in urban revitalization.

Overgrown trees in Springfield drop limbs on houses, fences, and cars — especially after the ice storms we get every few winters off the Connecticut River valley. A lot of the maples and oaks in the Forest Park and Six Corners neighborhoods were planted 60 or 70 years ago, and they have never been properly shaped. Branches that thick don't come down clean on their own — they crack where the wood is already rotting inside.

We start by walking the tree and looking at where the weight is sitting before we cut anything. In yards where the ground is soft from spring thaw — which is most of March and April around here — we bring in the right equipment so we're not tearing up the lawn or working from a bad angle.