Shelbyville sits between the Gun Lake water and the oak hills of Yankee Springs, where the woods run right up to the back of a lot of yards. Monty's Tree Service works that boundary — removals where a dying oak leans toward a cottage, trimming and pruning that opens a canopy without opening the whole lot to the sun. Wind off the lake takes the tops out of tall pines, and the storm damage cleanup after is sectioning, chipping and raking until the ground shows nothing but needles again. A tree handled in September is not a problem in January. Shelbyville, Wayland, Middleville, Hopkins and the Barry County lake country.