JW Charlemont Excavation and Tree Service

About JW Charlemont Excavation and Tree Service

The Deerfield River runs fast and cold through Charlemont, and the land goes up steeply on both sides of it — hemlock ravines, hardwood slopes, the Mohawk Trail carved along the grade. JW Charlemont Excavation and Tree Service works ground where a tree cannot simply be dropped but has to be climbed, roped, and let down a hillside a piece at a time. Up here an ice storm is a whole-valley event, and the crack of a hardwood letting go carries a mile down the river. They pull the wood off the roads and driveways above Zoar Gap, then come back for the crown work — the pruning that keeps the next storm from finding the same weakness. On a cold, bright hilltown morning, a cleared yard with the river sounding below it is a fine thing to stand in.