Plant & Ornamental Pruning in Cutten, CA

Most of our Cutten jobs are exactly that: a big conifer in a small yard. Redwood limb weight over roofs, firs that have died back and need to come down in pieces, hedges and ornamentals overdue for shaping, and stumps from long-gone trees still owning a corner of the lawn.

How plant & ornamental pruning goes in Cutten

Cutten and Ridgewood put full-size redwoods and firs inside small residential fence lines, sharing the yard with garages, decks, and swing sets, so nearly everything is rigged over a structure. Pruning fits around that: hedges sheared from the driveway side, ornamentals worked by hand, and fruit trees opened up so the Cutten damp does not sit in the canopy. Cuts are few and clean, and the prunings go through the chipper or into the green bin.

Cutten sits just inland of the bay fog, wet enough to grow second-growth redwood at full speed and windy enough in winter to test every heavy limb. The Cutten hazard is redwood limb weight over roofs and Douglas firs that have died back and need to come down in pieces between two houses. Cutten is fifteen minutes from our McKinleyville base and on the daily route through Eureka.

When Cutten homeowners call for plant & ornamental pruning

• An apple, plum, or fig that has not been pruned in years and fruits small and high.
• A Japanese maple, rhododendron, or flowering cherry somebody sheared into a shape it is now fighting.
• Shrubs and small trees stacked against the house that need thinning for light, air, and fire safety.
• Fruit rotting on the branch or scab on the leaves, which crowded canopies in Cutten's damp invite.

Redwood roots crowd every Cutten yard, and a stump here is usually right against a driveway, a fence post, or a neighbor's lawn. Fire risk in these neighborhoods is low, but stacked redwood duff and dead limbs against a house still get cleared as part of any trimming job.

Working in Cutten

Working over houses without incident is a rigging discipline, and it is the part of the trade our climbers train hardest. Neighbors watch us work in Cutten a lot. We are fine with that.

Around Cutten that means Ridgewood, Walnut Drive, Cutten Elementary, Sequoia Park, and the properties between. Full-size redwoods and firs on small residential lots, technical rigging over structures.