Tree Trimming in Rochester

Rochester is a well-established commuter village southeast of Springfield with a mix of older in-town homes and newer subdivision development. The community has grown steadily and is known locally as a desirable family suburb with good schools. Older parts of town near the original village core have larger, more established trees, while the newer additions have younger plantings. It sits along the South Fork of the Sangamon River, which creates pockets of dense riparian tree growth.

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.