A heavy wet band off the lake can load the maples of Muskegon between midnight and breakfast, and by morning something is usually lying across a driveway. McFarland and Sons Tree Service takes those calls — storm damage cleanup, limbs cut back off a roof, a split maple brought down before it finishes the job on its own. The rest of the year is quieter and more deliberate: trimming for clearance over the sidewalk, pruning that keeps a big tree in balance, removals planned around a narrow city lot. The blocks near Ryerson Creek grow soft wood on damp ground, and soft wood keeps a tree crew busy. Every job ends the same way — brush gone, ground raked, the yard handed back.