About Bellingham Tree Removal Pros

Most tree jobs in Whatcom County are not a tree standing alone in an open field. Many are a tall Douglas fir or western red cedar growing ten feet from a house, on a lot that drops away toward the street or the lake. There is nowhere to fell it. Every piece has to come down in sections, lowered under control, past a roof, a deck, a power line and a neighbour's fence.

That is the job here, and it is why we hold ourselves to a simple standard. The tree comes down. Nothing else gets damaged. The yard is left cleaner than we found it. If any one of those three is missing, the job was not done properly, no matter how fast it went.

The weather makes it matter more. Winter windstorms come off the water and down the Fraser Valley, and by November the ground has been soaked for weeks. Saturated soil lets shallow-rooted trees tip over at the root plate, whole, with no warning limb first. A tree that has stood for sixty years can be on a roof by morning. Homeowners here are right to look up when the wind starts.

That worry also gets sold to. Plenty of trees that frighten people are perfectly sound, and plenty of quiet-looking ones are not. So before anything else, we give you a straight answer on whether a tree needs to come down at all. Sometimes the right call is to thin it, take the deadwood out, or leave it alone and check it again next year. We would rather tell you that than take down a healthy tree you did not need to lose.