Tree Removal
Dead, diseased, or structurally compromised trees removed from residential and commercial properties. Full rigging for tight yards and roofline jobs.
Service details →We dispatch certified crews across Lansing's Southside, Eastside, Old Town, Ingham County and Eaton County - same day for hazard calls.
Open 24/7
Including January ice events and post-storm weekends
Licensed & Insured
Full liability coverage on every Lansing job
Free Estimates
On-site quote, no commitment required
If a silver maple is across your roof on the Southside, or a storm-split ash is hanging over your fence line near Old Town, you need a crew - not a quote form that auto-replies in 48 hours.
When you call (517) 793-5658, a dispatcher answers. If your situation is hazardous, we schedule same-day response. If it's not urgent, we give you a straight estimate and a realistic arrival window.
Call (517) 793-5658Each service below has a dedicated page with pricing context and what to ask before hiring anyone.
Dead, diseased, or structurally compromised trees removed from residential and commercial properties. Full rigging for tight yards and roofline jobs.
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Crown reduction, deadwood removal, and clearance cuts for power lines and rooflines. Pruning before October prevents most Michigan winter damage calls.
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High-torque grinding to below lawn grade. Clears the stump and surface roots - area ready to reseed or build over.
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24/7 response for trees on structures, blocked driveways, downed limbs. Staffed through Lansing's full November-March storm season.
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Full land clearing for construction, fence lines, and residential expansion across Lansing, DeWitt, Holt, and Ingham and Eaton County.
Service details →Call and describe the situation. We'll tell you exactly what the job involves and what it should cost.
Lansing's housing stock is old, its lots are tight, and its tree canopy was planted decades before anyone thought about where the garage would go. That combination shapes every job Tree Removal Lansing Co runs. Here is how each service works on the ground in Ingham and Eaton County, and what to expect when you call.
Most Lansing removals are not fell-and-drop jobs. On the Southside along Cedar Street and Waverly Road, and through Old Town and REO Town, the tree is usually a mature silver maple, ash, or oak standing a few feet from a house, a fence, or a neighbor's roof. Those come down in sections on ropes, rigged from a climber or a bucket, and lowered under control. Tree Removal Lansing Co runs full rigging setups on tight lots and prices the job on access, proximity to structures, species, and condition rather than height alone.
Dead ash is its own category here. Emerald ash borer has worked through most of Lansing's ash canopy, and a long-dead ash is brittle enough that limbs fail under a climber's weight. Those get removed from a bucket or by crane, and they cost more every year they stand. If you have one, do not wait for winter pricing. Details, ranges, and what a fair quote includes on the tree removal page and the Lansing cost guide.
Trimming is clearance: getting limbs off a roof, a gutter, a driveway, or the service drop running from the pole to your house. Pruning is structure: deadwood, crown reduction on an overextended silver maple, correcting a co-dominant stem before it splits. Most January emergency calls in Lansing trace back to pruning that was deferred through the previous summer. Tree Removal Lansing Co schedules pruning by species and season, and does not cut oaks between April 1 and July 31 because that is the oak wilt transmission window across Ingham County.
Power lines split the city. Inside Lansing, the utility is the Board of Water & Light; outside it, mostly Consumers Energy. Either way the utility clears its own primary lines and the service drop is the homeowner's problem, which is where we come in. Species timing, pricing, and what to ask before booking on the tree trimming page.
Once the tree is down, the stump gets ground to six to twelve inches below grade, surface roots included, and the hole backfilled with the grindings and raked level. Most Lansing stumps run $85 to $480 depending on diameter at ground level, and multiple stumps in one visit are priced per stump at a lower rate. Tree Removal Lansing Co grinds stumps left by other companies and by storms years ago just as often as its own. One rule that matters on Lansing's older lots: MISS DIG 811 gets called before the wheel touches the ground, because Southside and Eastside gas and water services frequently sit shallower than current code. Sizing, what happens to the chips, and winter limits on the stump grinding page.
Lansing averages around 51 inches of snow a season, and it sits east of the main lake-effect belt, which means proportionally more ice events than Grand Rapids gets. Ice is what breaks trees. Peak call windows are January and February ice storms, March freeze-thaw wind, and June and July microbursts. Tree Removal Lansing Co keeps crews staffed through the whole November to April season and triages by hazard: tree on a structure first, blocked access second, standing hazard third.
When you call (517) 793-5658 after a storm, a dispatcher answers, confirms whether it is a structural emergency, and gives you a real arrival window. You get a price before work starts, at 2am the same as at noon. What to do while you wait, who to call for a downed line, and how Michigan insurance treats storm trees on the emergency page.
Outside the city core, in Delhi, Delta, DeWitt, and Meridian Township, the work shifts to parcels: fence line clearing, brush mulching, building site prep, and rough grading so a cleared lot drains instead of holding water every spring. Sequence is where clearing budgets go wrong, so Tree Removal Lansing Co works in a fixed order: mark what stays, MISS DIG, selective logging first, brush, stumps before concrete, then grade. Soil erosion permits kick in near water or over an acre, administered by Ingham or Eaton County, and DeWitt runs through Clinton County. Pricing benchmarks and the full order of operations on the land clearing page.
Not because of a slogan. Because of how the job runs.
One number, (517) 793-5658, reaches a person. Not a voicemail, not a form that replies in 48 hours. During an ice event that is the difference between a tarp on the roof tonight and water damage by Thursday.
Nobody can price a Lansing removal from a phone description. Access, lean, decay, and what sits under the canopy decide the number. We walk the lot, tell you what the job involves, and the figure we give is the figure you pay unless you change the scope.
Old Town, REO Town, the Eastside, and the older Southside blocks were built long before their trees matured. Most of those jobs have no path for a bucket truck and a drop zone that is somebody's roof in three directions. Sectional rigging is standard for us, not a special request.
Emerald ash borer, oak wilt and its April to July window, silver maple co-dominant stems, BWL versus Consumers on line clearance, which trees are the city's and which are yours. That knowledge shows up in the estimate before it shows up in the invoice.
After every major Michigan storm, uninsured crews work neighborhoods door to door. If one of them is hurt in your yard, that lands on you. Ask any crew for liability and workers' compensation certificates. We hand ours over without being asked twice.
If the tree is in the right-of-way it is the city's. If it hit your house, your insurer likely covers removal. If pruning would just delay an inevitable removal, we say so. Straight answers cost us some jobs and earn the rest.
"Called at 7am after an ice storm split our silver maple onto the back fence. Crew arrived by noon, cleared everything, and ground the stump same day. Straight price, no surprises."
Southside Lansing
"Three quotes, two no-shows. These guys showed up on time, walked the site before quoting, and finished in four hours. The ash was 50 feet and right next to the garage - they rigged it down in sections without touching anything."
Old Town
"Asked about oak wilt before anyone touched the tree. That told me everything I needed to know. Removed a red oak that had declined since July. Clean cut, debris chipped on-site, stump ground flush."
East Lansing
Southside calls along Cedar Street and Waverly Road make up the bulk of our residential volume - that area has some of the oldest housing stock in Lansing, and the mature silver maples and ash trees on those lots have decades of deferred maintenance behind them.
On the Eastside near the Michigan Avenue corridor, most calls involve trees close to multi-unit properties. Old Town and REO Town regularly involve mature trees in tight spaces between historic buildings - those jobs need rigging, not just a chainsaw.
We also serve East Lansing, Okemos, DeWitt, Holt, Haslett, Mason, Grand Ledge, and surrounding Ingham and Eaton County.
Southside
Cedar St, Waverly Rd, Edgewood
Eastside
Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo St
Old Town / REO Town
Grand River Ave, Washington Ave
Greater Lansing
East Lansing, Okemos, DeWitt, Holt, Mason
Each area has its own tree problems. These pages cover what we actually run into locally, from oak wilt in Meridian Township to bank erosion along the Grand River.
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