Tree Service in Crafton, PA

Tree Service in Crafton is easier once you know which trees belong to whom. On a typical Crafton street there can be three different parties responsible for the trees in view. The borough's Shade Tree Commission page says the borough is responsible for trees in the tree lawn, the strip between the sidewalk and the street. Duquesne Light is responsible for pruning some of those tree lawn trees where they grow near overhead power lines. Everything on the house side of the sidewalk is private, and the borough states it does not maintain trees on private property. That last group is where we come in.

A dense, early-1900s borough

Crafton was incorporated in January 1892 and covers about 1.14 square miles, with about 6,099 residents in 2020. A trolley linked it to downtown Pittsburgh from 1896, and many of its landmark buildings date from 1906 to 1938. The lots are narrow and the houses are close, so a large backyard tree usually has a neighbor's roof, a garage and overhead wires within reach of its limbs. Few back yards have a driveway wide enough for a truck, so most removals here are climbed and lowered in pieces.

Chartiers Creek country

The borough sits above Chartiers Creek, which flows northwest to the Ohio River at McKees Rocks. The creek valley has long shaped the area, and the steeper streets that drop toward it mean some yards are terraced with walls. Trees growing at the top of an old retaining wall can push it out as their roots and trunks get bigger. We check walls as part of any estimate for a tree that grows along one.

What the borough offers, and what we do

Crafton's Shade Tree Commission runs an annual planting program, and residents can ask for a free tree for their yard. The borough also has a licensed arborist who advises on its tree work, and it takes requests for pruning, removal and hazardous or nuisance trees in the tree lawn through a Shade Tree Request Form. For a tree on your own lot, you hire the work yourself. Typical Crafton jobs for us include:

• Removing a large backyard maple or locust that has outgrown a narrow lot
• Reducing limbs over a neighbor's roof or a shared alley
• Clearing deadwood over porches and detached garages
• Grinding stumps so a free borough tree, or one of your own, can be planted in a better spot

Before you call about a tree near a wire

If the problem is a tree lawn tree touching a power line, that is a borough and Duquesne Light question rather than a homeowner job. If it is your own tree touching the service drop to your house, call us and we will tell you whether the utility needs to drop or guard the line first.

Call (412) 789-1968 or use the form. Get a free estimate