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General Tree Care
LaMay's Tree Service has a full staff of Certified Arborists to help maintain the health and beauty of your trees and shrubs. Our Arborists are continually being educated and updated on the latest techniques to ensure that we are able to provide you with the best care and service for your trees and shrubs. All tree work is done in accordance with the strict guidelines of the “ANSI Standards” (American National Safety Institute) and the ISA Standards (International Society of Arboriculture).
Safety Pruning
The objective of safety pruning is to reduce the risk of tree failure. Safety pruning of trees is the removal of dead, diseased or dying limbs that may pose a safety risk. Often, safety pruning includes the pruning of trees over driveways, patios, roofs, pools, etc. The pruning helps to ensure a safer environment. Also, by properly cutting limbs back to the branch bark ridge it allows the tree to heal properly.
Vista Pruning
Trees, although beautiful in their own right, often block views of pleasing landscapes, valleys, bodies of water, and other desirable views. The views can often be enhanced by removing select live branches from the top, sides or bottom of tree. Skilled crown thinning, crown raising, and crown reduction of trees often makes the tree look its best and can create openings to stunning views.



Selective Pruning

Crown Cleaning is the removal of dead, diseased, detached and broken branches. This pruning type also done to reduce the risk of branches falling from the tree and harming properties or persons. This pruning is also used to reduce the spread of insects, diseases and decay from the dead or dying branches to the rest of the tree. Selective pruning may be done when you are not cleaning the whole crown. This can be done by specifying the diameter of the limbs to be removed. For example, clean all limbs 1” in diameter or more.

Crown Thinning is the removal of select limbs to reduce the density of the crown. Thinning will allow for more light and air penetration which helps maintain the foliage of the interior of the crown. Usually this type of thinning is done in percentages if not the entire crown. For example, remove approx 10% of the foliage from the Crown. This pruning can also be specified by the size of the limbs to be removed. For example, remove limbs ¼” to 1” in diameter.

Crown Reduction is the selective removal of limbs and stems to decrease the height or spread of the tree. This pruning is also done for clearance of utility wires, to clear growth back from over or against roofs and other structures, and to remove growth from in other trees.

Crown Raising is the removal of lower limbs from the canopy to provide clearance for buildings, lights, vehicles, and pedestrian walk ways. The clearance level is usually set at a specific height. For example, raise 10 feet about the roof.
Shrub Pruning
A common reason for shrub pruning is to reduce or maintain their size. Traditional shearing, or the longer lasting and more natural hand pruning, can be completed for your desired results.

You can prune shrubs to reinvigorate and rejuvenate them, maintain their size or reduce them in size, shape prune them (informal or formal), and pollarding. Please contact one of our Arborists for assistance in making the proper choice.
Crown Reduction
Crown Clean: Remove broken, dead, rubbing or diseased branches greater then specified diameter (e.g. 1” diameter)

Crown Thin: Increase light and air penetration, or reduce weight to a specified percent (e.g. 15% of canopy)

Crown Reduce: Decrease height or spread on entire tree or one section.

Crown Raise: To elevate lower limbs on canopy and provide clearance.
Tree Removals
Unfortunately, sometimes the need arises for the removal of a tree. Our staff of Certified Arborists can to get the job done safely and efficiently for you. We can handle the small tree in the front yard to the large tree over your pool or tennis courts.  We have a wide variety of expert machinery to get any job done. For example, we have large whole tree chippers, large chip boxes, a log loader, buckets trucks, stump grinders and even a 130’ crane for those difficult and hazardous trees. Rest assured we are fully licensed and insured.
Storm Damage
If ever an unfortunate event such as a natural disaster or a major storm emergency should arise, LaMay’s Tree Service can and will respond quickly and with the upmost professionalism.  Our staff is skilled and equipped to handle tree damage from events like lightning strikes, hurricanes, ice storms, high winds and even tree failure due to decay and root disorders.

Cabling & Bracing

In Arboriculture, the use of support systems in trees has been adopted since the early 1900s. Today’s guidelines for installing support systems (cables, braces and support rods) are set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in conjunction with the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). Support systems are installed in trees to help provide support to individual limbs and even whole trees. Cables and braces act to limit the movement of limbs thus helping to protect them from failure. When one of our Arborists recommends cabling or bracing for a tree or limb it is to help prolong the effects a defect may have on the tree or may help to prevent the failure of an already weakened tree. Between using steel strand cables or the newly introduced cobra systems, LaMay's can recommend a support system that best helps to preserve your investment.

Land Clearing

We are fully capable of clearing small and large parcels of land. We can also help contractors with roadside clearing along highways and other major thoroughfares.

Stump Grinding

Once you have a tree removed, the stump and roots should be ground out. We can provide the equipment to handle all types and sizes of stumps, from the walk behind grinder to the large tow behind grinder.

Firewood 
Firewood is available year round; prices do vary depending on the time of year, amount and selection.  We offer both seasoned and unseasoned wood.  Delivery service is available, please call for more detail.