Tree Service in Winnipeg, MB

The honest test is this: if it’s short enough to take down safely from a ladder or from the ground, with no rigging needed and nothing valuable directly underneath it, we can probably handle it. In practice that means most front-yard cedars, ornamental shrubs, saplings, and modest trees up to roughly 15–20 feet — the kind of thing a homeowner could in theory tackle themselves but doesn’t want to. Anything taller, anything with a thick trunk over about 6–8 inches, or anything close to a structure or power line falls outside our scope and we’ll refer you to a certified arborist with a bucket truck or rigging crew.

We remove stumps — we don’t grind them. When we take out a small tree or shrub, the stump comes out with it as part of the job. For standalone smaller stumps left over from old tree work, we can dig them out, cut the roots, and haul the whole thing off. For larger established stumps where grinding is the cleaner option, we’ll point you to a specialist who runs a dedicated stump grinder — that’s their lane, not ours, and trying to do it half-way with the wrong gear leaves you with a worse mess than you started with.

We haul it. Cutting a tree down and leaving the homeowner with a pile of brush at the curb isn’t a finished job, in our books. Everything we cut — trunk, branches, brush, the lot — gets loaded up and hauled off the property as part of the price we quote. The yard you walk out to when we’re done is a clean yard, not a worksite.

No — and we’ll tell you that on the first call. Trees that need to come down near a roof, a fence, a power line, or any other structure require rigging, controlled drops, and proper insurance for that kind of work. That’s a certified arborist job, not ours. If you describe the tree to us and it falls into that category, we’ll refer you to someone we trust to handle it instead of taking the work and putting your property at risk. Saying no to the wrong job is part of doing the right job for everyone else.

Three reasons, and they’re all about doing the job right. Equipment — large tree work needs bucket trucks, rigging gear, and chippers we don’t run. Insurance — the policies that cover tree felling near structures are separate from the ones that cover yard work, and the rates reflect the risk. Specialization — certified arborists train years for hazardous take-downs, and a yard-care crew dabbling in big tree work is how people get hurt and houses get damaged. Dave’s view is simple: do the small jobs well, send the big jobs to people who do them well, and never pretend to be something you’re not.