West Valley Tree Service · Yakima
Tree removal in Yakima's West Valley, taken down in sections and raked clean
Tall trees beside houses, fences and wires come down a piece at a time from a climber's line or the bucket, and the yard is left clean enough that you can't tell we were there.
Chapter 01
A tree dropped whole takes the fence and the garage corner with it
Felling a big tree in one piece is only an option when there is a clear lane the full height of the trunk. Most lots in the West Valley do not have one. The tree is thirty or forty feet from a house, with a fence on one side, a shed on the other and a service line running through the lean. Drop it anyway and the lean, the wind and the weight of the crown decide where it lands, not the person holding the saw.
The other way a removal goes wrong is quieter. The tree comes down, and then you are left with a field of limbs, a heap of rounds nobody has moved and a stump that was never part of the conversation. It counts as done only when the ground is as usable as it was before.
So the first job is the reading. Before any saw starts, we walk the tree: which way it leans, where the weight hangs, whether there is dead wood in the top, what is underneath and what sits within reach if a piece swings. The cut plan comes out of that walk, and it decides whether the tree needs a climber, a bucket truck or both.
A West Valley climber high in a tall tree during a removal, with a groundsman in hi-vis on the ground below
Tied in at the top, lowered one section at a time
Where there is room to reach it, the bucket truck puts a person at the top of the tree without climbing the trunk. Where there is no room for a truck, a climber ties in high and works down from the crown. Either way the order is the same: limbs first, then the stem in sections, each piece cut loose only after it is on a rigging line held by the groundsman.
That is how a 100-foot pine ends up on the ground without touching the neighbour's roof. Philip Edinger had a pine over 100 feet tall taken all the way down by Carlos and his crew, and the work area was cleaned up when they finished. Tall trees are not a different kind of job. They are the same slow, sectioned job with more sections.
Once the tree is down, big wood is cut into rounds you can actually move and the brush goes onto the dump trailer as it is cut, so the lawn never fills up with it.
Chapter 03
Down to the last twig, then the question of the stump
Reed Ball described tree removals here as quick and totally cleaned up down to the last twig, and Brian Durr said that after the crew finished it was like they were never here. That is the finish we work toward on every removal: rake, blow, a last walk of the yard, and a look at the spot where the trunk stood.
What is left at that spot is a stump. Some people want it gone at once and some want to leave it for a bench or a planter, so it is a choice for you to make on the estimate, not a surprise afterward. If you want it ground out below the lawn line, see stump grinding.
We take estimates on site in Yakima, the West Valley, Union Gap, Selah, Naches, Toppenish, Wapato and the surrounding areas, and the estimate is free. Call or text Carlos at (509) 961-5496 and say which tree it is and what sits near it.
Philip Edinger, Google review: “They took down a 100’+ pine tree all of the way to the ground and worked their tails off!” Rated 5.0 from 38 Google reviews. Call (509) 961-5496.