Tree Removal in Kenmore, NY

Tree Removal in Kenmore is a precision job. The village covers just 1.44 square miles and had 15,205 residents in 2020, a density of about 10,590 people per square mile. Its 7,447 housing units stand close together on a tight street grid between Delaware Avenue, Elmwood Avenue and Military Road. A tree in a Kenmore backyard usually has a house on one side, a neighbor's house on the other, a garage behind and wires overhead. There is no open lawn to fell it into.

An early suburb with old trees

Kenmore incorporated in 1899 after Louis Eberhardt, often called the father of Kenmore, subdivided farmland into a planned suburb. The population went from 318 in 1900 to 16,482 by 1930, so a large share of the homes and the trees around them are close to a century old. In 2009 the American Planning Association named Kenmore one of the top ten great neighborhoods in the country. The walkable streets that earned that title are the same streets where we work with inches to spare.

How we take a tree apart here

In a yard this tight, the climber removes the tree from the top down. Limbs are cut in short lengths and lowered on ropes through a friction device, so each piece is controlled all the way to the ground. Larger trunk sections are lowered or, when the tree stands directly over a house with no landing zone, lifted out by a crane parked on the street. The estimate tells you which method we plan and why. We also tell you whether the job needs a neighbor's permission to stand in their yard, which is common and best arranged before the day of the work.

Who owns which tree

If the tree in question stands out by the street, on the grass strip between sidewalk and curb, check with the village before anything is cut, because it may be a public tree. Backyard and side-yard trees are the owner's. The service drop from the pole to your house is the owner's responsibility too, and the utility will usually need several days' notice to disconnect or sleeve it before tree work.

Owners, renters and costs

Census QuickFacts shows 69.0% of Kenmore homes are owner-occupied, with a median owner-occupied value of $208,600. Rigging-heavy work costs more than felling, so we break the estimate down by tree and by task. You can see what the removal costs, what cleanup costs and what stump grinding adds, and decide on each.

Leaves, branches and wood

The village collects yard waste in open containers, bundles or clear plastic bags up to 50 pounds, with bundles no longer than 4 feet, and fall leaves can go on the grass strip from mid-October into December. That is sized for garden cleanup, not a full removal, so our crews chip the brush on site and haul the wood. Get a free estimate