Tree Trimming in Palmer

Palmer is a small city in central Hampden County, about 15 miles east of Springfield along the Quaboag River and I-90. It's an older mill town with working-class housing stock — most homes were built between 1880 and 1950 — and mature tree canopies that reflect that age. It's a crossroads community at the junction of several state routes and the Mass Pike. Economic conditions mean deferred maintenance on both homes and their trees is common.

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.