Tree removal in Winslow, Maine
Our yard is on Augusta Road — US Route 201 — so Winslow is the town we reach fastest, and it shows in the work: this is where we get called for the removals nobody wants to quote. A silver maple leaning over a garage, a rank of white pines along a property line, a hardwood that split at a codominant stem and is now holding itself up out of habit. Trees with two trunks grown together and bark trapped in the union are far weaker than they look, and once that union fails there is no repairing it.
Winslow sits where the Sebasticook joins the Kennebec, and river-adjacent ground grows big, fast, heavy trees — including silver maple, whose wood is notoriously weak and storm-prone. Near the water we work under the town’s shoreland zoning ordinance, administered by the Code Enforcement Officer, not by us and not by the state: within the buffer, cutting is scored against a points system, canopy openings are limited, and stumps stay in the ground. A hazard tree can generally still be removed after consulting the CEO, who may ask for an evaluation from a licensed arborist first. We are happy to be that arborist.
Away from the water there is no tree ordinance in Winslow and no permit needed to take a tree down on your own land. What there is, is a lot of house-adjacent timber — which is why nearly everything we do here is rigged and lowered rather than felled.
Storm damage & 24-hour emergency service in Winslow
Being based in Winslow means our storm response here is measured in minutes. When the December 2023 windstorm put roughly 397,000 Central Maine Power customers in the dark and Kennebec County went under a state civil emergency, the trucks did not have to travel. Same in the April 2024 wet-snow nor’easter, when limbs loaded until they snapped and about 14,000 CMP customers lost power in this county.
What we do on a storm call is triage first: get the weight off the structure, make the site safe, and document the damage for your insurer before anything gets cut up and carted away. Then the cleanup — the trunk, the brush, the ruts, the raking. We do not leave a lawn looking like a landing.
If a tree is down across a line, treat every wire as live. CMP maintains only the corridor around its conductors — about 8 feet to either side and 15 feet overhead — and the company’s own figures say trees cause 41% of its non-storm outages, over 94% of them trees standing outside that corridor. Under federal OSHA rules, anyone who is not a qualified line-clearance trimmer must stay 10 feet from an energized conductor. Call CMP, then call us.
Ash, hemlock and browntail moth in Winslow
Winslow is inside the Kennebec County quarantine for both emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid — the whole county is. EAB was confirmed just across the river in Waterville in 2022. Ash killed by the borer turns brittle quickly, which changes how it has to be taken down: what would have been a routine climb becomes a crane or bucket job, and the longer it stands dead the truer that gets.
Browntail moth is a live problem in this region too, and its caterpillar hairs cause a poison-ivy-like rash and breathing trouble. The Maine Forest Service’s advice is to clip the winter webs while the trees are dormant, October through March — and not to attempt webs that are too high or near power lines. That is a call for a licensed arborist, and we hold a First Class Landscape & Utility license, the class that covers utility-adjacent work.
Wood from every Winslow job goes into the Community Woodshed, free to anyone who can use it. That is not a marketing line; the shed is on this road and it is stocked from these jobs.
★★★★★“I was very impressed! The work was done very fast and thorough! The crew were very friendly and paid attention to safety and cleanup. I would highly recommend!”
— Bruce S, Winslow
