Tree Trimming in Spencerport

Spencerport is a village in the Town of Ogden in western Monroe County, sitting along the Erie Canal about 12 miles west of Rochester. It's a small, quiet community with a historic village core and surrounding rural and suburban development that has grown steadily since the 1980s. The canal corridor brings the same willow and cottonwood issues found in Fairport. Newer subdivisions on the western fringes have younger tree stock that hasn't been a problem yet.

Branches that hang over roofs or power lines in Rochester don't stay put through a lake-effect winter. The snow loads here can hit 40 inches in a single storm, and a limb that looked fine in October can split and come down on a fence or car by January. Neighborhoods like Irondequoit and the South Wedge have a lot of older maples and oaks — trees planted 50 or 60 years ago that are now big enough to cause real damage if they're not kept up.

We climb the tree or use a bucket truck, make cuts at the right collar — that's the raised ring where a branch meets the trunk — so the tree seals itself over time without rotting. We don't top trees, because topping kills the structure and leaves stubs that rot out in a few years, which means you'll pay more to deal with the mess later.