Recent tree projects around Rochester and southeastern Minnesota — a roped-down maple, a winter oak trim, three stumps, a storm pine, a cleared lot, and an ash that came down in time — with what each one cost and why.
The projects below are representative of the work we do around Rochester — the kind of jobs, the way they're priced, and what homeowners tell us after. Verified customer projects replace these examples as jobs close.
A 55-foot silver maple that had swallowed the back fence line and was dropping limbs on the shed — roped down piece by piece, everything carried out the side gate, fence and shed untouched.
“Every quote I got wanted the fence panels pulled. These folks roped the whole tree down in pieces over the shed and never touched the fence. Yard was cleaner than before they came.” — Mike, Byron
Price: $1,250 · Time on site: 1 day
A 50-foot bur oak older than the house: deadwood out, canopy lifted off the roof and the garage, and the two weak crotches over the driveway lightened before storm season.
“That oak was here before the house and I intend it to outlive me. They took the deadwood and left the shape — the roof sees daylight and the tree still looks like itself.” — Carol, Stewartville
Price: $875 · Time on site: 1 day
Three stumps — 26, 20, and 16 inches — from the maples that came down last fall, ground below grade and the holes filled level so the mower stops scalping the yard.
“I have been mowing around those stumps for a year. One visit, ground below the dirt, holes filled — you would not know a tree ever stood there.” — Gene, Zumbrota
Price: $385 · Time on site: Half a day
A 45-foot pine that came down in a summer straight-line storm and landed along the fence line — called in the morning, cut up and hauled the same day before the next round of weather.
“We woke up to it across the fence line, roots out of the ground. They had it cut up and hauled by dinner and the fence lost exactly one board. That is all I wanted from anybody.” — Tanya, Pine Island
Price: $1,150 · Time on site: Same day
Three-quarters of an acre of brush and medium trees on a building lot outside town — cut, mulched on site, stumps left flush for the builder's grader.
“We bought the lot wooded and needed it buildable, not landscaped. Cleared and mulched in two days, and the builder started the week after. Exactly what we asked for.” — Brad & Kelly, Kasson
Price: $2,400 · Time on site: 2 days
A 48-foot green ash in the third year of emerald ash borer decline — canopy half gone, bark shedding — taken down before a brittle dead ash became a storm problem over the driveway.
“I kept hoping the ash would turn around. They showed me the borer galleries under the bark, gave me the price in writing, and had it down in a day. Should have called a year earlier.” — Steve, Rochester
Price: $975 · Time on site: 1 day
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