Elkhart & Kosciusko counties · platted 1874
Tree service in Nappanee, Indiana
From the older blocks near downtown to farmhouses out in the country, Nappanee has big trees and a long memory for storms. We take down, trim and clean up after trees for homeowners in town and on the surrounding farm ground.
The night of October 18, 2007
Anyone who lived in Nappanee in 2007 remembers the tornado. Late that evening it touched down west of Bourbon, crossed the country between Bremen and Bourbon, and grew to a high-end EF3 with winds the National Weather Service estimated at 165 mph as it entered the southeast side of town. More than 100 structures in Nappanee were badly damaged or destroyed, and the survey notes describe trees sheared, topped and uprooted all along its track.
A storm like that is rare. What it leaves behind is not. Trees that survived a bad wind often carry the damage for years: a cracked fork that slowly opens, a stub where a big limb tore out and rot moved in, a crown that grew back lopsided. If your trees came through 2007 or any of the summer storms since, a tree assessment is how you find out whether an old injury has turned into a hazard.
A farm town with old neighborhoods
Nappanee was platted in 1874 and grew up as a farm town, and the country around it is home to one of the largest Amish settlements anywhere. That means a lot of yard trees on farmsteads with big open ground, and a lot of older trees in town near the downtown and Eastside historic districts. The farm jobs are usually about access and ground: getting the bucket truck to a tree behind the barn without rutting the lane, or clearing a grown-up fence row. The in-town jobs are about room: a tall tree between two houses with no place to drop it.
Both get the same approach from us. Someone comes out and walks the tree with you, you get a price in person, and when the work is done the brush has gone through the chipper and the ground is raked.
Nappanee questions
Maybe. Old storm damage shows up later as a widening crack in a fork, mushrooms or soft wood at a torn limb, or dead branches up top. If you see any of those over the house or the drive, have it looked at.
Usually. We'll look at the lane and the ground at the estimate. The bucket truck sets up on plywood pads, and the compact loader carries the heavy wood out, so a farm lane doesn't get chewed up.
Yes. Brush, volunteer trees and old fence rows are part of our lot clearing work. Tell us what you want to keep and we'll clear around it.
Our work in and around Nappanee
- Storm damage
Trees on roofs and across farm lanes after a storm. Emergencies can call outside our normal hours.
- Tree removal
Big farmstead trees and in-town trees with no room to fall, taken down in sections.
- Lot clearing
Grown-up fence rows and brush pushed back to give a field or a building site its edge again.
- Tree trimming
Limbs lifted off barn roofs and houses, dead wood cut out of old yard trees.
- Stump grinding
Stumps from old storm losses ground below the grass so the yard can be mowed again.
We also work in Bremen, Bourbon, Plymouth and Wakarusa, Elkhart and more.