Tree Service in Peters Township, PA

Tree Service in Peters Township covers two kinds of trees: the young ones planted with newer homes, and the older fencerow and woodlot trees that were there before the subdivisions arrived. The township had just 3,004 residents in 1950 and stayed largely rural until then. It reached about 17,566 by 2000, 21,213 by 2010 and 22,946 in the 2020 Census. A lot of that growth came by building on old farm ground, and the hedgerow oaks, black cherries and walnuts that marked field edges are now in people's back yards.

Where the township sits

Peters Township is in Washington County, bordered by Upper St. Clair and Bethel Park to the north. U.S. Route 19 runs north to south and East McMurray Road east to west, and the township includes McMurray, Thompsonville and Venetia. It covers about 19.7 square miles, so a call in Venetia can look very different from one near the Route 19 corridor.

Two common jobs

Young trees that were planted too close. Builders' trees, often maples and flowering pears, were set near foundations and driveways when they were small. Twenty years on, they rub siding and lift pavement. Early structural pruning can fix some of these. Others are best replaced with something that fits.

Old field-edge trees. Trees that grew in a fencerow often have one-sided crowns, old wire grown into the trunk, and decay where branches were cut decades ago. Wire inside a trunk matters for saw safety and for stump grinding, so we ask about old fence lines when we quote.

Don't plan on burning it

A Peters Township spring collection notice stated plainly that leaf burning is prohibited in the township, and leaves had to go out in biodegradable paper bags with a pickup requested from Public Works. Because open burning isn't the answer for leaves, we plan for brush and logs from tree work to be chipped and hauled, or left cut to length if you want firewood. The estimate says which.

Emerald ash borer arrived early in this region

The first Pennsylvania emerald ash borer find was in 2007 in Cranberry Township, north of Pittsburgh, and the beetle has since killed many of the region's ash. Ash in old woodlots on the edges of Peters Township lots are often already dead standing trees. Dead ash becomes brittle, which makes removal harder and riskier the longer it waits.

Storm cleanup on bigger lots

Lots toward Venetia and the township's southern edge are often an acre or more, with a tree line along the back. After a summer thunderstorm, the usual call is not one tree on the house but several broken tops and hangers spread across the back of the property. We sort that work by risk: anything over the house, driveway or a play area first, then hangers over paths, then the cleanup of what is already on the ground. You can approve the urgent part and leave the rest for later in the written estimate.

Call (412) 789-1968 or send the form. Give us the nearest cross street and a short description of the trees, and we'll set up a visit. Get a free estimate