Tree Removal Services in Collingswood, NJ
Tree Removal & Tree Surgeon Services in Collingswood, NJ
Located in Camden County, New Jersey, the town of Collingswood has a population of 13,926 residents as of the 2010 census. Well known for its many shops and restaurants around Haddon Avenue, Collingswood was ranked by USA today as the “#1 small-town food scene in America” back in 2018. To preserve the beauty of your Collingswood, NJ property, it is vital to ensure that dead and decaying trees are removed and that there is sufficient space and sunlight for other plants and trees to grow. Trees that are dying or already dead can pose a huge risk to any homes or structures within their falling distance. Additionally, these decaying trees will often attract pests and termites. Don’t risk bringing a termite infestation near your Collingswood home or property!
We at Big Timber Tree Service LLC are the best choice for any tree removal task in Collingswood, NJ. With over 30 years of experience, our Collingswood tree removal specialists are trained and licensed to handle the job both safely and efficiently! Contact our professional tree surgeons today so we can get started on not only improving the look of your Collingswood property, but making it safer for everyone involved!
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Collingswood, NJ Tree Removal & Tree Cutting Services
Don’t let any dead trees on your Collingswood property simply go ignored! Removing these trees will not only be beneficial to the health of other trees but your safety as well. With any dead trees and branches comes the risk of inflammability as the dead tree matter and lack of water would only make it easier for a potential fire to spread through your Collingswood property. Don’t wait until it’s too late to take proper action; get in touch with our tree cutting professionals at Big Timber today so we can help to keep your property completely free of tree-related hazards.
You can rest assured that our Collingswood tree cutting professionals know exactly how handle the job, both efficiently and safely! For over 30 years, our tree cutting specialists have been cutting and removing trees around Collingswood, NJ. With our extensive experience in the trade, we are confident that you will satisfied with the tree cutting work our Collingswood tree cutting specialists will perform. Make a call to the pros at Big Timber today to schedule tree cutting services for your Collingswood, NJ property!
Local Tree Removal Company in Collingswood, NJ
Our insured and licensed tree removal experts have the tools and experience to handle any tree removal on your Collingswood, NJ property, whether the tree poses a safety risk or just stands out as an eye-sore. We will take care of any emergency tree removal promptly, while following all procedures to maximize the safety of our workers and clients alike. Through our tree removal services, we will prove how we have earned the trust of countless clients from all around Collingswood. We make it a top priority to provide all of these Collingswood clients with top-notch customer service, so we encourage you to contact us today with any questions or to request a free estimate for your tree removal!
Collingswood, NJ Tree Removal Specialists
If your property has dead or dying trees, it’s essential that you remove them immediately to avoid extensive damage to people, your landscape, and your home. Healthy trees receive a steady supply of nutrients through their roots. Damage to a tree’s roots and bark can affect this process, preventing it from retaining appropriate moisture. Without this moisture, trees and their branches become dry and delicate, easily snapping and falling.
Big Timber is proud to provide safe and effective tree removal services in Collingswood, NJ. With years of experience and all the proper tools, we can rid your property of any unwanted trees, no matter the size. Reach out to one of our tree removal specialists to schedule a consultation.
Collingswood, NJ Tree Surgeon Services
Do you have any trees on your Collingswood property that are causing problems? You can trust our team at Big Timber to take care of them. Our tree surgeons have mastered the art of providing tree care and tree removal services.
Make the Most out of Your Collingswood, NJ Property with Our Tree Removal Services
Our tree removal specialists are fully insured and licensed. With more than 30 years of experience under our belt, Big Timber ready to tackle any tree removal job around Collingswood, NJ!
Tree Removal Services in Collingswood, NJ
Our tree technicians are trained to perform even the most daring tree removals around Collingswood, while maintaining the safety of our workers and clients. For our skilled team at Big Timber, no tree removal job is too small and no tree is ever too tall!
Collingswood, NJ Emergency Tree Removal Services
Big Timber will always be there when you need them most. Were you hit by a storm in Collingswood and need a tree removed ASAP? No need to fret, call Big Timber and our tree removal experts will be there right away!
Tree Work Around Collingswood's Old Houses
Collingswood is a borough of a little under two square miles, developed as a rail suburb and never really rebuilt. What that leaves is one of the better collections of late-Victorian and early-twentieth-century housing in Camden County — deep porches, turned columns and brackets, slate and original tile roofs, wood windows and trim, and a mature street canopy planted to match.
Which changes tree work here in a way that has nothing to do with the trees. The buildings are less forgiving than modern ones, and a job that would be routine on a 1970s ranch requires more thought on a house with original fabric.
What a limb does to a modern house
- Asphalt shingle: a few shingles, replaced from stock in an afternoon
- Vinyl siding: a cracked panel, swapped out
- Aluminium gutter: dented or dislodged, off-the-shelf replacement
- Pressure-treated deck rail: a board
- Everything is standard-dimension and available
What the same limb does here
- Slate: cracked slates, and matching salvaged slate is expensive and slow
- Original wood trim and brackets: milled to profiles nobody stocks
- Turned porch columns: reproduced by hand, if at all
- Half-round copper gutter: a specialist repair
- Old glass in original sash: not replaceable like-for-like
None of that means a tree cannot be worked on near a Victorian. It means the drop zone gets planned more carefully, the rigging takes longer, and nothing gets dropped that could have been lowered. It also means the cheapest quote is frequently the one that has not accounted for any of this.
A related problem specific to old houses under heavy canopy. Dense shade over a north-facing slate or tile roof keeps it permanently damp, and moss and algae take hold in the seams. On slate that accelerates deterioration and lifts the courses. The same shade fills half-round gutters with leaf litter faster than a modern gutter system handles it.
The fix is almost never removing the tree. Lifting and thinning the canopy directly over the roofline restores air movement and light, which dries the surface out between rains. It is a pruning job that protects a roof, and it is worth doing on a cycle rather than once.
Working Over a Porch
Collingswood porches are the part we are most careful about. A wraparound porch with original columns and a tongue-and-groove floor is directly in the fall line of anything coming off the front of the house, and it is the most expensive square footage on the property to repair.
So on those jobs everything comes down on ropes, we set up from the street where the block allows it rather than working over the porch roof, and we would rather add half a day than test whether a porch roof takes a lowered limb. If access genuinely will not allow safe work, we will tell you that instead of trying it.
Trees Over Outdoor Dining on Haddon Avenue
Collingswood's restaurant row has a tree problem most restaurateurs have never had explained to them, and it is not the obvious one.
The sticky tables
If tables under a street tree are sticky by mid-July and nobody can work out why, it is aphid honeydew. Aphids feeding in the canopy excrete sugar that falls as a fine mist onto everything below — tables, chairs, umbrellas, and customers. Maples and lindens are the usual culprits. It is seasonal, it is invisible until it is on the linens, and it is genuinely bad for a dining room.
Sooty mould follows
Black film grows on the honeydew, which is what turns a sticky table into a stained one and a light-coloured awning into a problem. Same cause, and it means the surfaces need washing rather than wiping.
Deadwood over seating
The one that actually matters. A limb over a sidewalk table is a liability question in a way that a limb over a lawn is not. Deadwood in a mature street tree above customer seating should be on an inspection cycle, and that inspection should be documented.
What we do about it
Deadwood removal over seating areas, canopy lifting for clearance and sightlines to signage, thinning where a dense crown is holding moisture and aphid populations, and written hazard assessment for the trees directly over public seating. Scheduled outside service hours — we are open 24 hours, so an early morning or a Monday works.
What we cannot do
We are a tree company, not a pesticide applicator, so we do not treat aphid populations chemically. What we can do is reduce the conditions that favour them and tell you honestly whether the tree in front of your restaurant is one that will keep doing this every summer. Some species will. That is worth knowing before you invest in more sidewalk seating under it.
Street Trees and the Borough
Collingswood takes its canopy seriously, and the trees in the strip between sidewalk and curb are frequently in the public right-of-way rather than on your property. That can mean you are not permitted to remove one even when it is lifting your walk, and that a permit or a replacement planting condition applies.
It is worth establishing which side of that line your tree sits on before paying anybody. We check what applies and handle any permitting as part of the job — and if the answer is that it is the borough's tree and the borough's decision, we will tell you that too.
Tree Removal in Collingswood, NJ
Large Tree Removal
Nowhere to fell anything on these lots. A mature oak or sycamore comes down in sections, rigged and lowered with the drop zone controlled at every stage, on a street where the houses are close and the trim is original. Slower by design.
Dead Tree Removal
The emerald ash borer has worked through Camden County ash, and dead ash goes brittle from the top down rather than declining slowly. Two seasons standing dead and it is unsafe to climb, so it gets a bucket truck or a crane.
Tree Limb and Branch Removal
Plenty of our Collingswood work is one limb, not a whole tree — a cracked leader over a porch roof, or branches on the gutters. Usually a same-week appointment and a small fraction of a removal.
Emergency and Storm Damage Tree Service, 24 Hours a Day
Big Timber runs emergency tree service around the clock, seven days a week. Storm damage tree removal and fallen tree removal in Collingswood frequently starts with clearing a narrow street before anyone can reach the damage.
This part of Camden County sits on heavier soil than the Pinelands, so trees hold reasonably at the base and fail higher up — split unions and trunk cracks rather than whole trees over at the root. After a storm, the tree worth having looked at is often the one still standing perfectly upright with a fresh crack at a major union that cannot be seen from the sidewalk.
Insurance on an Older House
We photograph damage as we work and deal directly with insurance adjusters. This matters more than usual in Collingswood, because a claim on a slate roof or original trim needs documentation of what was there before, not just what fell on it. Adjusters and specialist contractors both ask.
Service drops to a house are routine work; a primary distribution line gets coordinated with the utility before anyone cuts. If a tree is on a structure, across the street, or into a wire, call (856) 288-1793 rather than filling out a form.
Tree Trimming and Pruning in Collingswood, NJ
On this page pruning is the main event rather than the alternative. Clearing limbs off rooflines and gutters, lifting and thinning canopy over slate and tile to let it dry, clearing utility service drops, reducing weight on the long horizontal leaders that century-old street trees develop, and taking deadwood out before it comes down on a porch or a parked car.
Kept on a cycle it costs a fraction of a removal and it protects both the tree and the building underneath it. See our tree trimming service or the Collingswood tree trimming page.
Stump Grinding, Bamboo, and Firewood
Stump Grinding
Stump grinding four to six inches below grade, deeper where a replacement tree is going in. Grinding rather than excavation is the right call on these lots — a Victorian's water service, sewer lateral, and the sidewalk are all close to wherever the tree was.
Running Bamboo
Planted as a screen along a great many older Camden County property lines and it never stays put. Rhizomes travel under fences, walks, and driveways, and cutting the canes accomplishes nothing — it has to be excavated. Our bamboo removal service handles it, and there is a dedicated Collingswood bamboo removal page.
Seasoned Firewood
Our removals produce a great deal of hardwood, seasoned and sold as delivered firewood — cut, split, stacked, and dried until it actually burns. Worth noting on a street of Victorians: a working original fireplace needs properly seasoned wood far more than a modern insert does.
Tree Care Services in Collingswood, NJ
- Tree trimming, pruning, and deadwood removal — including canopy lifting over slate and tile roofs
- Tree removal and tree cutting — dead, hazardous, or structurally failing
- Commercial deadwood inspection over outdoor dining and public seating
- Emergency and storm damage response, 24 hours a day
- Written hazard assessments from a NJ Licensed Tree Expert
- Stump grinding and stump removal
- Running bamboo removal
- Seasoned firewood delivery
We serve Collingswood and the surrounding Camden County boroughs, including Haddon Township and Westmont, Oaklyn, Audubon, Haddonfield, and Cherry Hill.
Collingswood Tree Service Questions
My house has a slate roof. Can you still work on the tree above it?
Yes, and it changes the method rather than the answer. Nothing gets dropped that could be lowered, we set up from the street where the block allows, and we plan the drop zone around the porch and the roofline rather than around convenience. It takes longer, which is reflected honestly in the estimate.
There is moss on my roof under the trees. Do the trees have to come down?
Almost never. Dense shade keeps a north-facing slate or tile roof permanently damp, which is what the moss is responding to. Lifting and thinning the canopy directly over the roofline restores air and light so the surface dries between rains. It is a pruning job, and it protects the roof.
Why are the tables outside my restaurant sticky in the summer?
Aphid honeydew from the tree above. Aphids feeding in the canopy excrete sugar that falls as a fine mist onto everything beneath, and black sooty mould then grows on it. Maples and lindens are the common offenders. Thinning the crown helps; the species determines whether it will recur every year, and we will tell you which you have.
Who is responsible for the tree between my sidewalk and the curb?
Often the borough rather than you, since that strip is frequently public right-of-way. It can also mean removal is not permitted without approval, and that a permit or replacement planting applies. Worth confirming before spending anything — we check and handle any permitting.
Can you work outside my business hours?
Yes. We are open 24 hours, so early mornings, evenings, and slower weekdays are normal for us rather than a favour. On Haddon Avenue that is usually the only sensible way to do it.
Licensed, Insured, and Worth Checking
New Jersey law requires a Licensed Tree Care Operator registration for any company performing tree care for compensation. Big Timber holds LTCO 735, and our work is directed by a New Jersey Licensed Tree Expert — the state's highest tree-care credential, covering tree biology, identification, diagnosis of pests and disease, pruning standards, and safe removal.
Insurance is the part that matters most on a Collingswood street. Slate, original millwork, and hand-turned porch columns are not repairs an uninsured contractor can absorb, and they are not repairs you want to be arguing about afterwards. We carry general liability and workers' compensation plus NJ Home Improvement Contractor License #13VH05439500, and certificates are available on request before work begins. We have worked South Jersey since 1989.
Free, no-obligation estimates on tree pruning and removal in Collingswood, NJ.
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