Tree Removal Services in Merchantville, NJ
The Best Tree Removal Company in Merchantville, NJ
Big Timber Tree Service, the best tree company serving Merchantville, NJ and the surrounding areas, proudly provides a full range of professional tree care services including trimming, removal, and more. With our specialized tree service in Merchantville, the trees and shrubs on your property will enjoy a noticeable enhancement. To learn more about our tree removal service in Merchantville and tree trimming service in Merchantville, contact our offices today.
Benefits of Tree Removal Service in Merchantville
There are several great benefits to choosing Big Timber for your tree removal and trimming needs in Merchantville. First, professional tree trimming service can help maintain the health and vitality of your tree. Tree trimming allows more ambient light onto your Merchantville home and property, which may have once been blocked by a tree’s foliage. Plus, tree trimming enhances airflow around your property and helps promote a healthier tree. When you are ready to enjoy the benefits of a visually-appealing property, contact Big Timber today for our expert tree trimming service in Merchantville.
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Certified and Trained Tree Removal Specialists
With over 25 years of experience, Big Timber has remained a family-owned and operated tree company that serves Merchantville and the surrounding areas with quality and integrity. Our team deploys the latest technology on each project we tackle, and we make it a point of emphasis to keep customers informed every step of the way during their tree care service. Big Timber has a trained and certified staff that has been serving the South Jersey region since 1989. Being fully licensed (Lic# 13vh05439500) and insured, you can trust that all of your tree care needs will be handled professionally.
The Merchantville Tree Removal Company That’s Always Looking Out For You
A diseased or in-decline tree that goes undiagnosed on your Merchantville property could pose a serious hazard and create the risk of property damage or personal damage. Our professional team is always looking out for our customers, and we can bring to your attention problem trees that could be a concern.
Safe & Efficient Tree Removal Service in Merchantville, NJ
If one of the trees on your Merchantville property has seen better days, and there is simply no other way to salvage it, the best solution is to have it professionally removed. With safety being of utmost importance, our team develops a plan for safe tree removal in Merchantville, NJ. You can rest assured that any structures around your property will remain safe when our team performs tree removal service.
No matter the type of tree removal you need in Merchantville, our tree care experts will ensure the proper resources are used and your tree is safely and efficiently removed.
Professional Tree Surgeon Services in Merchantville 24/7
Here at Big Timber, our company is known across the South Jersey region for offering professional tree care service, year-round. With employees that are knowledgeable, courteous, and passionate about tree care, we are committed to providing the best service in the Merchantville, NJ area.
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Merchantville, NJ Emergency Tree Removal Services
We are always there when you need us most. If a severe storm leaves your Merchantville property with a tree that needs to be removed ASAP, Big Timber has your back! Give us a call and our tree removal crew will be out there shortly!
Make the Most of Your Merchantville Property with Our Tree Cutting Services
Our specialists are licensed, insured, and fully equipped to remove any type of tree in Merchantville, NJ. With over 30 years of experience in removing trees, Big Timber is go-to company for professional tree removal services around the Merchantville area.
Merchantville, NJ Tree Surgeon Services
Have any trees on your Merchantville property that are causing problems? You can always rely on Big Timber to take care of them. Our tree surgeons provide exceptional tree care and tree removal services for all of our clients around Merchantville, NJ.
Tree Removal Services in Merchantville, NJ
Big Timber’s arborists are trained to perform all types of tree removals around Merchantville, NJ, while handling the job safely and efficiently. For convenient tree removal services in Merchantville, the Big Timber team is just a call away!
A Tree Just Came Down. What Do You Do in the First Hour?
Merchantville is barely half a square mile — small lots, houses close together, and mature trees standing between properties rather than in the middle of them. Which means a tree coming down here is rarely one household's problem. It is usually across a fence, a driveway, a wire, and somebody else's roof at the same time.
This is the part nobody writes down, and it is what people search for at two in the morning with a torch in their hand. In order.
Assume every wire is live, including the ones on the ground
Stay at least thirty feet back from any downed line, and treat anything the tree is touching as energised too — the fence, a car, a gutter, a metal railing. Electricity does not need to arc far to reach you, and water on the ground extends its reach. If a line is down, that is the whole of your first decision: get everybody away from it.
If you smell gas or hear hissing, get out and call from outside
A tree coming over at the root can pull a gas service. Do not switch anything on or off, do not use anything that sparks, leave the building, and call 911 and the gas utility from a safe distance. This takes precedence over everything else on this list.
If a tree is on the house, get out of that part of the house
Not to inspect it. Out. Ceilings under load fail without warning, and going up to the attic to see how bad it is puts you directly under the damaged structure. Move people and pets to the far side of the building or out of it entirely.
Call 911 if there is injury, gas, fire, or a blocked road
Also if a wire is down across a street or sidewalk where somebody could walk into it. This is what they are for and it is not an overreaction.
Call the utility for the wires, and us for the tree
These are two different jobs and they happen in that order. No reputable tree company will begin work near a downed primary conductor until the utility confirms the line is dead — and any company that offers to is one you should not have on your property. Call us on (856) 288-1793 and we will tell you honestly whether we can start or whether we are waiting on the utility.
Photograph everything, from a safe distance
Before anything is moved. Wide shots and close shots, the tree, the damage, and where the tree came from. Your insurer will want it, and if the tree came off a neighbouring property it matters a great deal more. This costs you two minutes and can be worth thousands.
Then call your insurer
After the immediate danger is handled, not before. Most policies cover reasonable emergency measures to prevent further damage, which is generally what an emergency tree removal is — but check rather than assume, and keep every invoice.
What not to do, however tempting
- Do not try to move or cut the tree yourself. A fallen tree is under tension in ways that are not visible — cut the wrong part and it moves violently. This is how people are seriously hurt after the storm rather than during it.
- Do not climb on it or let children near it. Including trees that appear to be resting safely.
- Do not drive over branches that might be lying across a wire.
- Do not go into the attic or crawl space to assess damage while a tree is on the structure.
- Do not accept the first person who knocks on your door offering to clear it for cash. They will be along within hours. Ask for the New Jersey Licensed Tree Care Operator number and insurance certificates before anyone touches anything.
- Do not let anyone start work near a wire on the assurance that it is "probably dead".
What Happens When We Arrive
We run emergency service twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. On arrival the first thing is not cutting — it is working out what the tree is holding up and what is holding the tree. Then we stabilise anything still standing, take weight off the structure before releasing anything, and cut in a sequence that keeps the load controlled the whole way down.
We photograph as we go and deal with your adjuster directly if you would rather not. During a widespread storm we triage: trees on houses and trees blocking access come before trees in yards, and we will tell you honestly where you are in that queue rather than promising a time we cannot hold.
The Slower Problem: Too Much Water
The opposite of an emergency, and the cause of a surprising share of the declining trees we look at in dense boroughs like this one. Roots need oxygen as well as water. Saturated soil has no air in it, and roots sitting in it suffocate and rot — which produces a tree that looks like it is drying out when the actual problem is the reverse.
A downspout discharging at the trunk
The most common version, and completely fixable. A downspout emptying beside a tree delivers the entire roof's rainfall into one spot, repeatedly. Extend it away from the base — several feet, discharging where the water can spread out. Costs almost nothing.
Sump pump discharge into the root zone
Same problem, worse, because it runs regardless of weather. A sump discharging at a tree keeps the soil permanently saturated. Route it away.
Added fill or a raised grade over roots
This one kills mature trees quietly. Adding soil over a root zone — for a new lawn, a patio base, a raised bed — buries the absorbing roots deeper than they can respire. Even a few inches across a whole root zone matters, and the decline appears years later.
Compaction
Vehicles, equipment, or heavy foot traffic over a root zone crush the pore spaces the roots breathe through. The effect is the same as flooding: no air. Common on small lots where the only place to park a trailer is under the tree.
Overwatered lawn
Irrigation set for grass runs frequently and shallowly, which suits turf and keeps the upper soil around a tree's root collar constantly damp. It is possible to drown a tree while watering a lawn.
Mulch piled against the trunk
The volcano of mulch heaped up the bark holds moisture directly against tissue that needs to stay dry, and it invites decay at exactly the point where the tree can least afford it. Mulch should be flat and wide, and never touching the trunk.
What it looks like
Thinning crown, undersized leaves, early autumn colour, dieback starting at the branch tips, and — the telling sign — mushrooms or bracket fungi appearing at the base or on the root flare. Fungal fruiting bodies at the base of a mature tree are worth having looked at promptly, because they indicate decay in the part of the tree that holds it upright.
What can be done
If it is caught early, quite a lot: fix the water source, decompact where possible, remove excess fill, correct the mulch, and reduce the crown to lower the demand on a damaged root system. If root or butt rot is established, the honest answer is different — a tree with decay at the base is a stability problem regardless of how the crown looks, and that needs assessing rather than treating.
Tree Removal in Merchantville, NJ
Large Tree Removal
Lots here are small and houses are close, so removals are section work — rigged and lowered piece by piece rather than felled. Where the street allows a bucket truck, that keeps equipment off the property and off the root zones entirely.
Dead Tree Removal
The emerald ash borer has worked through Camden County ash and dead ash goes brittle from the top down. Two seasons standing dead makes it unsafe to climb, so it gets a bucket truck or a crane rather than a climber on spurs.
Stump Grinding
Stump grinding four to six inches below grade, deeper where a replacement is going in. Grinding rather than excavation is right on these lots — utilities and walkways are close to wherever the tree stood.
Tree Trimming and Pruning in Merchantville, NJ
Pruning is what prevents most of what the first half of this page describes. Deadwood removal takes out what falls first and hardest. Weight reduction on long leaders lowers the leverage wind and ice can apply. Roofline clearance means that when something does come off, it lands on the lawn. And crown reduction is the one genuine intervention for a tree whose roots have been compromised, because it lowers the demand on what is left.
Kept on a cycle it costs a fraction of a removal. See our tree trimming and pruning service.
Bamboo, Clearing, and Firewood
Running bamboo turns up on plenty of older Merchantville 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.
Overgrown rear yards and fence lines get brush clearing or full land clearing. And our removals produce a great deal of hardwood, seasoned and sold as delivered firewood — cut, split, stacked, and dried until it actually burns.
Tree Care Services in Merchantville, NJ
- Emergency and storm damage response, 24 hours a day
- Tree trimming, pruning, and deadwood removal
- Assessment of declining trees, including drainage and root-zone problems
- Tree removal and tree cutting — dead, hazardous, or structurally failing
- Written hazard assessments from a NJ Licensed Tree Expert
- Stump grinding and stump removal
- Running bamboo removal
- Seasoned firewood delivery
We serve Merchantville and the surrounding Camden County communities, including Pennsauken, Cherry Hill, Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Oaklyn.
Merchantville Tree Emergency Questions
A tree just fell on my house. What is the first thing to do?
Get everyone out of that part of the house rather than going up to inspect it — ceilings under load fail without warning. Then check for downed wires and stay at least thirty feet back from any, including ones lying on the ground. If you smell gas, leave the building entirely and call from outside. Call 911 for injury, gas, fire, or a blocked road, then the utility for wires, then us.
Can you remove a tree that is on a power line?
Not until the utility confirms the line is dead. We coordinate with them and we will tell you plainly whether we are able to start or whether we are waiting. Anyone who offers to work near a downed conductor without that confirmation should not be on your property.
Should I move the tree myself to stop further damage?
No. A fallen tree is under tension in ways you cannot see, and cutting the wrong part makes it move suddenly. A substantial share of serious tree injuries happen after the storm rather than during it, to homeowners with a chainsaw. Photograph it and wait.
My tree is thinning and there are mushrooms at the base. What does that mean?
Fungal fruiting bodies at the base or on the root flare indicate decay in the part of the tree that holds it upright, and that is worth having assessed promptly. Frequently the underlying cause is too much water — a downspout or sump discharging at the trunk, added fill over the roots, or compaction.
Can a tree be damaged by too much water?
Yes, and it is more common than drought damage on small lots. Roots need oxygen, and saturated soil has none, so they suffocate and rot. The tree then looks like it is drying out when the problem is the reverse. Fixing the water source is usually cheap; the decline it caused may not be reversible.
Rather Than Claiming to Be the Best, Here Is What You Can Check
Every tree company's website says it is the best one, which means the claim tells you nothing. What you can actually verify: New Jersey law requires a Licensed Tree Care Operator registration for anyone 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. You can confirm both through the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
We also carry NJ Home Improvement Contractor License #13VH05439500, general liability, and workers' compensation, with certificates available before work begins rather than after. We have worked South Jersey since 1989 from a fixed address at 305 Hopewell Road in Marlton. Ask any company that turns up after a storm for the same four things.
Emergency tree service in Merchantville, NJ — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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