Tree Service in Leicester, MA

Tree Service in Leicester starts with altitude. The town lists its elevation at about 1,010 feet, roughly twice that of downtown Worcester, and the extra height brings colder nights, longer snow cover and more ice during freezing rain. Leicester averages around 47 inches of precipitation a year, with snow on the ground about 60 days a year. Those numbers show up in yard trees as snapped tops, split leaders and limbs bent permanently out of shape.

Four villages, four kinds of lots

The town describes four villages: Leicester Center, Cherry Valley, Rochdale and Greenville, which is now usually counted as part of Rochdale. Cherry Valley, on the Worcester side, has closer-set homes and street trees. Rochdale, in the southeast corner near Oxford, and the roads between the villages carry more wooded lots, stone walls and frontage along Routes 9 and 56. We price these differently because the work is different: rigging between houses on one street, and felling and chipping at the woods' edge on another.

Reservoir land in the northeast

Much of Worcester's Kettle Brook reservoir system lies in northeastern Leicester. The former villages of Mannville and Lakeside were removed to build it. Homes near that land often border large stretches of woods they don't own. A tree on the line between your yard and protected land should be measured and photographed before any cutting, and it is worth knowing who owns it before you decide what to do.

Owners who keep their trees

About 88.5% of Leicester homes are owner-occupied, and 92.8% of residents lived in the same house a year earlier, according to Census figures. That kind of stability means many homeowners are dealing with trees they have watched for decades: maples that were small when the house was built and are now a concern over the roof.

What storms do here

In the December 2008 ice storm, the National Weather Service reported ice of half an inch to an inch across interior north central Massachusetts, and up to one million Massachusetts customers lost power, some for as long as two weeks. In October 2011, heavy wet snow fell on trees still in leaf and about 420,000 customers statewide lost power. At Leicester's elevation, either kind of storm can bring down limbs that look healthy.

• Removing broken or hung limbs after storms
• Reducing long, heavy limbs on maples and oaks
• Taking down dead white pine and ash before the next storm
• Grinding stumps left from earlier storm cleanup
• Clearing trees back from driveways that need to stay open in winter

Call us

Call (508) 731-3691 or use the form. We will visit, talk through which trees worry you most, and leave a written estimate with the cleanup spelled out. Get a free estimate