Tree Trimming in Grandview

Grandview is a small residential village on the east side of Springfield, known locally as the site of a famous Lincoln speech praising its scenery. It has older established homes on large lots with significant tree cover. The community is relatively quiet and stable, with homeowners who have lived there for decades and trees that reflect that long tenure. The rolling terrain here is slightly more varied than the flat Springfield metro average.

Overgrown or dead branches drop fast during the ice storms that hit central Illinois every winter. Springfield sits in a wide-open prairie with no natural windbreak, so trees here take the full force of those storms. A lot of the older neighborhoods like Iles Park and Laurel Hills have silver maples and cottonwoods that were planted in the 1960s and are now pushing 60 feet tall — those limbs get heavy, and heavy limbs fall.

We look at the tree in person before we quote anything, because a photo doesn't show a hollow trunk or a root system heaving up against a foundation. We cut to the branch collar — that's the slight ridge where the branch meets the trunk — so the tree seals itself over instead of rotting from an open wound left by a flush cut.