Tree Trimming in Southwick

Southwick is a small rural-suburban town in the southwest corner of Hampden County, bordering Connecticut. It's known for the Southwick Notch, a geographic oddity where Connecticut dips north into Massachusetts, and for Berkshire East and Motocross track. Most housing is single-family on larger lots, with development spread across former tobacco and vegetable farmland from the mid-20th century onward. It's quiet and lightly developed compared to the rest of the county.

Overgrown trees in Springfield drop limbs on houses, fences, and cars — especially after the ice storms we get every few winters off the Connecticut River valley. A lot of the maples and oaks in the Forest Park and Six Corners neighborhoods were planted 60 or 70 years ago, and they have never been properly shaped. Branches that thick don't come down clean on their own — they crack where the wood is already rotting inside.

We start by walking the tree and looking at where the weight is sitting before we cut anything. In yards where the ground is soft from spring thaw — which is most of March and April around here — we bring in the right equipment so we're not tearing up the lawn or working from a bad angle.