Tree Removal & Reuse
Smart Feller Tree Works has the skills, experience, and creativity needed to address any removal challenge. Several trees labeled as “too dangerous” or “too technical” by other companies have been successfully and safely removed on our watch.
Tree dismantles are sometimes necessary, sometimes not. We work with you to identify hazardous trees and offer strategic solutions for managing dying and dead trees.
Tree Dismantling
Like everything else, trees eventually reach their expiration date. Take a stroll through a natural mature forest. You will see the ground littered with downed trees, happily decomposing slowly into next generation’s top soil.
The pattern is the same for our urban trees. As the foundations of these dead and dying trees decompose, we help them reach the ground safely, without coming through the kitchen first.
Tree Removal Options
After an initial meeting, we provide you with a list of options. Many clients ask us to just “put it on the ground” and they choose to do the cleanup work after we have finished. Options for a typical removal estimate include:
● Safely delivering the tree to the ground
● Brush removal
● Trunk removal
● Chipping
● Creating wildlife brush piles on site
Each proposal option involves a listed cost, allowing you to customize the job by picking from the list of service options before scheduling.
No tree should be considered too big, too small, or too scary-looking to call us.
Tree Reuse Practices
The environmental benefits of a live tree are far-reaching and varied. Smart Feller Tree Works strives to honor trees that need to be removed by reusing its products in the best way possible, focusing on how best to benefit the microbiome.
We may direct you to our close friends at Preservation Arborists for tree reuse projects.
Reuse in Community
Smart Feller Trees Works has deep connections in the Asheville region. Main trunks of larger trees can be especially useful to thriving local woodworkers. Working closely with local sawyers, a beautiful tree that had to be removed can continue into a new life as a product of fine woodworking.
Our friend, the WNC Firewood Guy Derek Watson, hauls large, un-millable hardwood trunk pieces away from our job sites to split and process for many of restaurants in the area that use woodfired ovens.
For tree pieces that can't be reused on site or in other ways, we partner with Psycho Chicken Eco Farm to use removed trees in their permaculture practice. Your trees will help create soil nutrients for years of future growing potential.
Images at right: Photographer and owner of The Nook Asheville, Mike Belleme, documents the making of a tea table made from a solid piece of oak reused from one of our job sites. Belleme enlisted local furniture maker Andy McFate to help create the beautiful piece.
“SFTW took down an extremely complicated 180 year old white oak, inches from our house. Ira and his team were brilliant. Ira is a very good communicator, practices OSHA safety standards, and honors commitments of time and budget.”
— K. Kellow & F. Cummings, Asheville