Total Tree Care

About Total Tree Care

January in the coulees back of the river runs cold and bright, and that is exactly when the pruning gets done. Total Tree Care spends those weeks in the windrows and farm yards of Denmark Township, cutting dormant hardwoods while the wood is hard, the sap is down, and the frozen ground takes a truck without complaint. Trimming keeps the maples off the roofs on the section-road places, and removal takes the box elders and split-crotch ash that no longer belong near a building. When a straight-line wind comes over the ridge in July and lays a row of trees across a field drive, the cleanup runs until that drive is passable and the brush is off the property. A tree pruned in the cold wakes up in April looking like nobody ever touched it.