Request tree service in Greater Burlington
Tell us about the tree, property and timing. We’ll contact you to discuss the work and next step.
Every field on this form exists because it changes something about what happens next. The service and your own description decide which kind of company the request goes to. Your town decides who covers you and which local constraints apply. Timing decides where the request sits in a triage order, which after a regional storm is set by danger, not by who submitted first. Whether the tree is on your own property decides whether this is your decision at all, because a trunk in a municipal strip belongs to the town's tree warden. Whether a power line may be involved decides whether the utility has to act before anyone else. And what the tree could strike is half of any urgency judgement. This form does not reach 911, a municipality or a utility, and nobody is watching it around the clock.
Before you request tree service
If a tree is on a house, a vehicle or a person, if it is touching or near a power line, or if you can smell gas or see sparking, this form is the wrong tool. Call 911 or your utility first and leave the area. A downed conductor can energise a fence, a wet lawn or the tree itself, and it stays dangerous until the utility says otherwise. Nothing on this website should delay that call by a single minute.
What actually happens after you send this
Your request goes to a person, not a queue. The first step is working out whether the tree is yours to decide about or whether a town or utility owns the decision, and what a crew would need to know before quoting. If the request is straightforward we come back with next steps. If it needs eyes on the property, and most removals do, we arrange an on-site assessment, because a written estimate for a tree nobody has stood under is a guess with a number attached. Guesses are not estimates.
The full request-to-estimate sequence sets out each stage and who is responsible for it.
What to include so the first reply is useful
The single most useful thing is the location of the tree relative to what you care about: the house, the driveway, the septic field, the neighbour’s fence, the road. After that: roughly how tall it is compared with the building beside it, what changed recently, a lean that grew, a crack that opened, mushrooms at the base, a limb that came down, and whether a truck can reach it or whether everything has to be carried out by hand. Access decides more of the price than height does. Say what changed, not just what you see.
Photographs help, but only ones taken from somewhere safe and level. Never trade safety for a better angle. Do not walk under a hanging limb or climb anything to get a better angle. If the only safe photo is from your kitchen window, that is the photo to send.
Timing, and what we cannot promise
Storm weeks are the exception to every normal timeline. When a front comes through Chittenden County, every crew in the region is triaging by danger, not by who called first, and a healthy tree that needs pruning will wait behind a trunk lying across a driveway. That is the right order even when it is not the convenient one. Outside storm response, the usual sequence is a reply, a site visit, then a written scope you can compare. Nobody skips the site visit.
We are the local point of contact for your request. We do not perform the work ourselves. The company that performs the work is responsible for its own assessment, estimate, contract, insurance and workmanship. Comparing companies and scopes explains what to look for in that paperwork.
What to include, and what each part decides
Every field on the form exists because it changes something. This is what each one changes, so you know which parts are worth care.
| What you tell us | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Service and description | Which kind of company the request goes to |
| Town | Who covers you, and the local constraints that apply |
| Timing | Where the request sits in a triage order |
| Whether the tree is on your own property | Whether this is your decision at all, or the town's |
| Whether a power line may be involved | Whether the utility has to act before anyone else |
| What the tree could strike | Half of any urgency judgement |
| Your own description | Everything the fixed fields cannot carry |
| Phone and ZIP | How and where you get contacted |
This form does not reach 911, a municipality or a utility, and nobody is watching it around the clock.