Preventative Tree Care - Winter Season Risk Assessment & Treatment
While spring and summer are the most productive for tree care businesses and their clients, it is also an excellent time to have your trees assessed for risks related to possible storm damage that could happen in the fall and winter months. As part of our regular tree health services, we can inspect and assess all your trees. This could reduce the impacts of ice, snow, and wind could have on them during their dormant months. Our three-pronged strategy in providing this service includes:
- Be proactive
- Complete inspection and assessment
- Multi-solution approach
Proactivity
We recommend to our current and prospective clients who contact us for tree service quotes to be proactive in having their trees inspected and evaluated for storm-related damage (both current damage as well as the possible risk for future damage). Winters in the South can be challenging for trees as ice storms are a common occurrence in recent year. Consequently, it is advisable to have your trees inspected and assessed yearly and no later than late summer of each year.
Complete Inspection and Evaluation
Our principal goal when evaluating your trees is to ascertain what trees and libs are most at risk for potential damage during ice and snow storms. While it is not possible to be one hundred percent accurate in these evaluations, our tree experts can pinpoint symptoms and signs on most species of tree that could lead to tree damage. Below is a list of area that we assess:
Upon finishing the assessment, Knoxville Tree Service can develop a proper plan of action to reduce and even eliminate possible tree-storm damage. While removal of part or the entire tree that fails our assessment is wise, wholesale elimination of salvageable trees is not smart. Trees often provide protection against wind, storms, ice. You want to maintain this protection as much as possible while reducing growth that may be problematic in winter storms.
- Tree Structure - We assess the overall branch sizes on mature species, which ideally is 2/3 the diameter of the tree's trunk. On most landscape trees we would like to to see the primary leader growing up to the tree's canopy. A leaning tree can often be normal and natural. Trees can naturally tilt towards the sun and away from typical winds. However, a leaning tree can be symptomatic of a weak root system indicating the tree may be damaged by storms.
- Weak Limbs - limbs with no bark or leaves are dead wood. These branches are a priority to eliminate before the winter season. These types of branches can fracture, break, fall in even average strength storms. Moreover, limbs will wounds, holes, or pits may additionally be a sign that disease is affecting the tree. Finally, a limb that has grown bigger than the main trunk is typically beyond the carrying of that tree to support it and should be cut off (or braced).
- Roots - if roots are visible and not covered by a layer of dirt, you should be worried about the strength of that tree's root system. Further, damaged or even cuts roots can result when a property structure, such as a sidewalk or a street, makes contact with root system. Signs of damaged roots include one side of the tree dying or declining, fungal fruiting blisters, and scarring of the head-root area.
Upon finishing the assessment, Knoxville Tree Service can develop a proper plan of action to reduce and even eliminate possible tree-storm damage. While removal of part or the entire tree that fails our assessment is wise, wholesale elimination of salvageable trees is not smart. Trees often provide protection against wind, storms, ice. You want to maintain this protection as much as possible while reducing growth that may be problematic in winter storms.
Multi-Solution Approach
After our evaluation, weak and at-risk trees are be identified and a storm-preparation plan can be devised to resolve the vulnerabilities pinpointed Below are some typical services we provide to resolve storm-vulnerable trees:
Call the tree service Knoxville trust to provide quality tree care maintenance that gets your trees safely through the winter months.
- Pruning and trimming dead and dying branches as well as weak limbs
- Cabling and/or bracing of weak, but sustainable, branches as well as species of trees with multiple trunks
- Fertilization and watering to ensure trees have the required nutrients to stay strong and healthy in the winter months
- Removal of trees determined to already be damaged and hazardous as well as ones that are too vulnerable to survive the winter
Call the tree service Knoxville trust to provide quality tree care maintenance that gets your trees safely through the winter months.