Tree Service in Kiefer, OK

Kiefer’s old town has big shade trees from the oil-boom days, often standing over roofs and lines with dead wood up top from past ice storms. Those come down in pieces and take the most time. Trees at the newer homes on the edge of town are usually smaller and quicker. Stump grinding, cleanup and haul-away are included, and the estimate is free with a firm price.

Not if it’s on your property. The town clears trees blocking its streets; a tree in your yard is yours. One lying across the line to your house is a job for the power company first: stay back and call them. Once the line is clear, we cut the tree up and haul it off the same day.

Late winter for most of Kiefer’s old shade trees: with the leaves off, the ice-storm damage and dead wood up top are easy to see, and the cuts seal once spring growth starts. Oaks are best done in the dead of winter. The December 2007 ice storm, called possibly the costliest in Oklahoma history, is a good reminder to take weight off long limbs before winter rather than after.

For Kiefer’s old shade trees, trimming usually wins: taking out the dead wood and shortening the heaviest limbs keeps the tree standing and off the roof for years. Removal is cheaper only when the trunk is hollow, the tree is mostly dead, or it has grown into the lines in a way trimming can’t fix.

Scratch a small twig with your thumbnail: green and moist underneath means it’s alive, brown and dry means that branch is dead. Other signs are bark falling off, mushrooms at the base, and no leaves in spring when the trees around it have them. If a big old tree in Kiefer fails more than one of those, have it looked at before it drops a limb.