Tree Removal in Broadview, IL

A letter from the village is usually how a tree removal Broadview wants done becomes your problem. It arrives with sixty days attached. Section 8-3-7 of the village code gives the Director of Public Works authority to enter private property. That applies where a tree is diseased, dead or dying. It also applies where limbs obstruct a streetlight, a sign, or the passage of people and vehicles. After written notice the owner removes it at their own expense within sixty days. Otherwise the village removes it and charges them.

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Working Inside The Sixty Days

That window is generous enough that nobody needs to panic. However, it is short enough that people miss it. The village’s own removal is not a bargain. Instead it comes as a bill you did not price and cannot shop.

Bring us the notice. We will look at the tree and tell you what the job actually involves. Then we give you a written number well inside the deadline. If the notice covers deadwood rather than the whole tree, we will say so. A trim costs a fraction of a takedown. Furthermore, the ordinance language covers obstructing limbs, not only dead trees. Plenty of 8-3-7 letters never turn into a tree removal Broadview has to see through at all.

ComEd Is Already Trimming Here

Broadview publishes ComEd’s line-clearance notices directly. Qualified line-clearance workers contracted by ComEd do the pruning near the wires. The village also passes on ComEd’s planting guidance. Keep anything over twenty feet at maturity away from the lines. That includes maple, elm and blue spruce. Instead use dogwoods or crabapples under twenty feet near distribution lines. If you are choosing a replacement, the Morton Arboretum in Lisle keeps mature-size lists for this region.

What that means for you: the branch in the wire is not your job and not ours. The rest of the tree usually is. We will tell you which is which when we look at it. Moreover, we do not touch anything in a service drop. That is the utility’s line to clear, not a tree company’s. Once we draw that line, the tree removal Broadview homeowners pay for is often a smaller job.

Flat Ground, Old Homesteads, One Bad Creek

Broadview sits about twelve miles west of downtown on 1.78 square miles of flat land. Frederick Bronson put in the first homestead in 1835. The village then incorporated in January 1914. It is one of the municipalities the MWRD names in the Addison Creek reservoir and channel improvement project. That project runs from Northlake down to Broadview. Furthermore, it exists because of a documented history of flooding.

Flat, clay-heavy, poorly drained ground holds water around root plates. That is the condition behind a lot of the failures we see here. It is not disease, just decades of wet feet and a windy afternoon. So a tree removal Broadview owners put off through one wet spring rarely gets simpler by the next.

Tree Removal In Broadview: What We Do

• Tree and bush removal, with the wood and brush hauled off the property
• Trimming — including the clearance work a Section 8-3-7 notice usually turns out to need
• Stump grinding
• 24-hour storm response

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708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Maywood, Westchester.