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We provide a number of services including removals, general maintenance, preservation and repair, and diagnosis/ management of insects and disease.

Never too early to start getting in the Christmas

Never too early to start getting in the Christmas spirit! 🎄

Tree planting is a significant investment. Making

Tree planting is a significant investment. Making sure they are planted correctly is critically important to protect that investment. Consider hiring a certified arborist to plant your trees. Today we planted 14 trees and shrubs at this Peterborough property. We handle and move trees with low impact methods. We like wide planting holes and careful depth measurements to ensure long term success. We remove all the material from rootballs and root prune as needed. We fill with native soil or loam that has been tested in our in-house lab. Fertilizer, water, and mulch to top it off.

Want a cool nature lesson? These interesting looki

Want a cool nature lesson? These interesting looking spots on this red maple leaf aren't caused by a fungal or bacterial infection, but instead are a unique relationship between an animal and plant. There is a small fly called an eyespot midge that lays it's eggs on the underside of maple leaves. When they hatch the larvae secrete a chemical that mimics a plant growth hormone. This creates a protective gall around the larvae, where it can feed before exiting to pupate. You will likely either find the splash of color interesting or unsightly, but whatever your opinion, you can rest assured that these flies wont do lasting harm to your trees.

Tim from @hartbrotherstreeservice taking a dead he

Tim from @hartbrotherstreeservice taking a dead hemlock top. We contracted out our 75' bucket truck with an operator to the Hart Brothers all week to do risk mitigation for camp Takodah. We love collaborating with our "competitors". By sharing different methods and allowing an outside perspective we improve industry practices in our target market.

We were excited to be part of the discussion to re

We were excited to be part of the discussion to restore Greenfield's oldest cemetery. The Fletcher family, who were founders of the town, are still local. They are some of the few who even knew this cemetery existed until recently.

I don't recall a specific moment when I knew that

I don't recall a specific moment when I knew that I wanted to be an arborist. But this week I had the pleasure of working with @hartbrotherstreeservice doing risk mitigation for @camptakodah where I spent many summers as a kid. Working above the ropes course I remember back to those years being on this same course and feeling at home high up in the trees.

Check out this tree we removed today in Peterborou

Check out this tree we removed today in Peterborough! 🤯 The decay and woodpecker damage had gone unnoticed until the property owner started thinning trees nearby over the weekend. It looks bad to the layperson, but anyone who understands tree structure and decay knows just how close this was to failing onto the house! Extensive decay on the tension side of a leaning hardwood with horizontal checking are huge red flags. This indicates significant breakdown of cellulose, which is the primary support system in hardwoods. Think of cellulose as the cables on a suspension bridge while lignin would be support columns. This decay consumed all the cellulose leaving only lignin behind. Another way to think of it would be if you built this tree out of Lego bricks. Imagine how easy that would be to push over!

Greg getting lowered into a large spruce last week

Greg getting lowered into a large spruce last week for a removal

Wishing everyone a fun and safe Memorial Day weeke

Wishing everyone a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend! A big thank you for the sacrifice given by all our fallen service members and their families 🇺🇸

A lot of logistics went into this single large spr

A lot of logistics went into this single large spruce removal in downtown Peterborough. We had to do the job on a day that school was closed, work with the town to maintain a lane of traffic, and coordinate with neighboring properties that we would affect. Hours of emails and phone calls for a job that took about 50 minutes!

What a great turnout at Children and the Arts this

What a great turnout at Children and the Arts this year! We met a lot of great people, had perfect weather, got to talk about trucks and trees all day, and raised a little money for the Lukas Community, a local non profit.

Come on down to Children and the Arts Festival in

Come on down to Children and the Arts Festival in Peterborough today! We are behind the post office for the "Touch A Truck" event. We will be raising money for the Lucas Community through some raffle items. See you soon!

It was a busy morning at our yard as our first tru

It was a busy morning at our yard as our first truckload of trees arrived for the season. Our plantings start with a professional consult with a certified arborist to help our customers with tree selection. Planting is overseen by an arborist and done using the A300 standards. But it doesn't end there. We offer routine care and monitoring to ensure your new trees thrive on your property for generations to come!

Working with trees has a lot of perks, but bad wea

Working with trees has a lot of perks, but bad weather is definitely not one of them! Today the bucket truck crew did dead ash removals in Nelson while another team did preservation work in Jaffrey. This big oak received dead wood pruning and a support system. Kudos to the teams for working through the steady rain!

I wrote our business plan more than seven years ag

I wrote our business plan more than seven years ago and update it annually. I'm proud to say that the first two pages of our vision and mission statement section have not changed in that time. While our aspirations are ever evolving, I believe firmly in the principles that founded this company and grew it to where it is today. This year's business plan revision paves the pathway for some dramatic and exciting growth. Thank you to our beloved customers, community, and supporters who make this journey possible!

Many people are surprised to learn that trees have

Many people are surprised to learn that trees have flowers on them. This is in part because those flowers can be far off the ground and out of sight, but also because they can be less showy due to the way pollen is spread. Your garden flowers and some trees (like cherry and apple) pollinate using insects. This is called entomophily and requires the plant to have a colorful attractive flowers. Most trees (like the pictured ash) use wind to spread pollen. This is called anemophily and is a major contributor to those seasonal allergies! Typically flowers on trees are small, green or red, and easy to mistake for buds or leaves until viewed up close.

We finally had the lettering done on our 75 foot r

We finally had the lettering done on our 75 foot rear mount bucket truck. The truck will be on display next Saturday in Peterborough during the Children And The Arts Festival, Touch A Truck event. Bring your kids (or not, no judgement). The event is in the parking lot behind the post office and will be going on all day! See you there!

Aaron and "Scuba" utilized the tracked lift yester

Aaron and "Scuba" utilized the tracked lift yesterday to access this back yard in Peterborough. With 50 feet of lateral reach they were able to boom over the leach field and remove an oak tree that was uprooting.

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@trackedlifts in the back while the bucket truck w

@trackedlifts in the back while the bucket truck works the driveway 💪

Efficiency is the reason we can have a million dol

Efficiency is the reason we can have a million dollars worth of equipment on a jobsite and still be competitive in our pricing. We are thoughtful in our setups to maximize productivity.

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