Tree Service in Pico Rivera, CA

Few cities show their building boom as clearly as Pico Rivera. Almost 49% of its housing was built between 1950 and 1959, and the median year built is 1957. Tree service here often deals with what those post-war yards have become: shade trees planted in the same decade, now very large, often planted too close to the house or the driveway.

Root problems on 1950s lots

Older concrete and big roots do not mix well. Roots commonly lift driveways and walks, pushing on block walls and getting into old clay sewer lines. Root pruning can help in some cases, but cutting large roots close to the trunk can destabilize a tree. When the conflict is serious, removing the tree and grinding the stump and surface roots may be the safer fix. We explain the trade-off before you decide.

What a typical visit covers

• Which trees are healthy and which have decay, dead limbs or a lean
• Clearance from the roof, chimney and service drop
• Roots near slabs, walls and the sewer cleanout
• Whether a palm needs cleanup or has grown too tall to service
• A written scope for each tree, with stumps listed separately

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Between two rivers

Pico Rivera sits on a plain between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River, just below the Whittier Narrows. Shot hole borers, invasive beetles that carry a tree-killing fungus, were first detected in California in 2003 at the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area upstream. If you see small round holes, staining or sudden branch dieback, have the tree checked, and keep infested wood local rather than carrying it to another area as firewood.

A city that planted trees

Pico Rivera has more than 120 acres of public recreational land across nine parks, and it planned to plant about 2,000 trees around the city between 2012 and 2014. Trees in the parkway are generally the city's, whatever their age; trees in your front and back yards are yours to manage.

Stump grinding after removal

A ground stump lets you replant, lay sod or pour a slab. We grind below grade, clean up the chips and can grind out shallow surface roots that would otherwise trip people or lift new concrete.

Planning around the street and neighbors

On removal days in Pico Rivera's residential blocks, we stage the chipper so it blocks as little as possible, and we ask you to let close neighbors know if a limb will be lowered near their side of the fence. Wood from healthy trees can be cut into rounds if you want to keep it. Wood from a tree with signs of shot hole borer should stay local and be chipped or disposed of, not handed out as firewood.

Call (626) 594-4788 for a visit and a written estimate.