Mick's Tree Service

About Mick's Tree Service

Down along the creek bottoms outside Holton, the walnut and hackberry trees hold onto their ice longer than the open fields do, branches clicking together in a wind that has nowhere else to go once it drops into the draw. Mick's Tree Service knows those properties from the canopy down, and once winter sets in, the same trucks that haul brush in fall are out clearing the long farm driveways that run between the tree lines toward the blacktop. A driveway shaded by trees freezes harder and stays icy longer than one out in the open sun, so this crew treats those stretches differently — a second pass, an extra round of salt, checked again before dark. Clearing a lane through timber country takes patience the open prairie work doesn't require. By the time the ice finally lets go of the branches, the lane underneath has stayed open the whole time.