Tree Trimming in Auburn

Auburn is an older small city about 15 miles south of Springfield with a historic downtown and established residential streets lined with large, mature trees. Many of the homes here were built in the early to mid 20th century, and the trees planted alongside them have grown to significant size. Auburn serves as a regional hub for the smaller communities around it. The older housing stock and tree canopy mean tree work here often involves careful removal or heavy crown reduction near structures.

Overgrown or dead branches drop fast during the ice storms that hit central Illinois every winter. Springfield sits in a wide-open prairie with no natural windbreak, so trees here take the full force of those storms. A lot of the older neighborhoods like Iles Park and Laurel Hills have silver maples and cottonwoods that were planted in the 1960s and are now pushing 60 feet tall — those limbs get heavy, and heavy limbs fall.

We look at the tree in person before we quote anything, because a photo doesn't show a hollow trunk or a root system heaving up against a foundation. We cut to the branch collar — that's the slight ridge where the branch meets the trunk — so the tree seals itself over instead of rotting from an open wound left by a flush cut.