Tree Trimming in Winston-Salem, NC

Price tracks how big the tree is, how much canopy work it needs, and how the truck has to reach it. A Light Shape job — a small ornamental or young shade tree — is the quickest visit. A Crown Clean on a mature tree is the most common trim. Heavy Reduction work on 60ft+ trees with hazard pruning or end-weight reduction is the biggest job and scales up based on rigging time. You get a firm written price before we start, and that price is what you pay — request a free estimate.

Mature hardwoods every three to five years for a full crown clean. Deadwood-only passes annually if the tree is over a structure. Young shade trees every one to two years for formative pruning to set good structure long-term. More often isn’t better: over-pruning stresses the tree. The right frequency for your specific tree is something we’ll tell you straight on the estimate walk.

Three different jobs, three different prices. A crown clean takes out deadwood, crossing branches, and structural defects. A crown thinning does that plus selective canopy thinning to let air and light through. A crown reduction is an active size reduction for clearance from a roof or power line, or to take weight off a hazardous limb. Most jobs are crown clean, not reduction. We use the term that actually matches what your tree needs.

Done right, no. The ANSI A300 standard sets the rules: clean cuts at the branch collar, no flush cuts, no stub cuts, no topping. We follow it on every limb. Done wrong, pruning absolutely can damage a tree, which is why we won’t take a chainsaw to a job that calls for hand pruners and why we won’t top a tree even when a customer asks us to.

Usually not. We confirm the full scope in a written quote first, so once you approve it the crew can do the work whether you’re home or not. We send photos when the job’s done, and you pay after you’ve seen the finished work.

For the service drop running from the pole to your house, yes — we coordinate with Duke Energy if the drop needs to be unbooked first. For trees touching the primary distribution lines along the street, that’s Duke’s job, not ours, and they do it for free as part of their right-of-way program. We’ll tell you straight which side of the line your tree falls on and who to call.

Late winter through early spring is best for most species — dormant season, no leaves to obscure structure, lower disease pressure, clean cuts that close before the growing season. Oaks are the big exception: they shouldn’t be pruned during oak wilt season (roughly April through July) because the open cuts attract beetles that spread the disease. If your tree should wait, we’ll tell you. If it can be done now, we’ll get it on the schedule.

Yes. Our trim service area runs from High Point east of us, out to Clemmons and Lewisville on the I-40 corridor west, and as far as Kernersville on the way back east. Each town has its own dedicated page on our site — check the menu, or call and we’ll tell you straight whether we cover your zip code.

Yes, same as removal — just let us know when you call. We can leave the chip pile in your driveway for landscaping mulch, save you from buying bagged mulch this spring. It also saves us a trip to the yard-waste facility, so we’re happy to do it. If you don’t want them, we haul everything off.

Call us at (336) 259-8460 — same 24/7 hotline as our storm work. If a limb has come down on a structure or is hung up in the canopy where it could fall on someone, that’s an emergency response, not a scheduled trim. We can be on site through the night, get the hazard down safely, and clear the debris in the morning.