S & S Tree & Turf

About S & S Tree & Turf

Out toward Sugar Bottom, where the trails cut through oak and hickory timber along the arm of Coralville Lake, the woods hold their own kind of winter — snow catching in the bare branches before it lets go and drops through in heavy clumps, long after an open field nearby has already gone white and still. S & S Tree & Turf works those wooded properties around Solon the same way they work the trees themselves, reading which limbs are holding too much wet snow to be trusted overhead before a plow ever touches the driveway underneath them. A drive that runs back through the timber toward the lake needs clearing with one eye on the canopy as much as the ground below, since a branch let go by the cold can undo an hour's work in a second. Finishing a wooded lane down near the water, with the lake ice just visible through the trees and the driveway scraped back to gravel, closes out a job that started the same place back in the fall with a chainsaw instead of a blade. The same timber gets worked from the top down and the ground up, whichever season is asking for it.