Freers & Sons Tree Service

About Freers & Sons Tree Service

Walcott runs along I-80 the way a lot of eastern Iowa towns run along a river, and the truck stop at the edge of town keeps its lot full and its lights on at every hour of the night regardless of what the sky is doing. Freers & Sons Tree Service works the town's residential streets and driveways on that same around-the-clock schedule, since a fast-moving system off the interstate can drop snow through Walcott in the middle of the night while Davenport, twenty minutes east, only gets rain. Out past the edge of town the land is flat enough that wind alone can drift a farm lane shut without a flake actually falling that day, so a plowed driveway at dusk can need a second pass by morning. The crew clears each driveway back to bare ground, opens walks along the town's short blocks, and gets salt down before the overnight refreeze that the open, treeless farmland here makes almost certain. By first light, the driveways sit clean under a sky already busy again with west-bound trucks.