Tree Trimming in Sherman

Sherman is a small but steadily growing village northeast of Springfield, primarily a residential commuter community along I-55. Most homes here were built from the 1980s onward, with a number of newer subdivisions added in the 2000s and 2010s. The flat agricultural land surrounding the village means trees are especially exposed to wind with little natural windbreak. Tree care here is often about managing storm damage and keeping trees structurally sound against open-field wind exposure.

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.