Tree Service in Kanata, ON

Kanata has a tree problem that most of Ottawa does not: whole neighbourhoods were planted in one go. Beaverbrook went in through the late 1960s and early 1970s as a planned community, and the silver maples, Norway maples, white spruce and ash that went into those front yards are now all reaching the end of their useful life within a few years of each other. Katimavik and Glen Cairn followed the same pattern a decade later. That is why one street can suddenly need four removals in a season while the subdivision two kilometres west needs none.

The other half of the story is emerald ash borer. Kanata was planted heavily with green and white ash, and the beetle has been through. A dead ash is not just a dead tree — the wood goes brittle fast, which changes how it can be taken down. Once an ash has been standing dead for two or three winters, a climber cannot trust the stem to hold a rigging load, and the honest answer is often a bucket or a crane rather than a rope. We say so at the quote rather than discovering it halfway up.

Newer Kanata — Morgan’s Grant, Kanata Lakes, the Fairwinds edge — is a different job entirely. Those trees are twenty to thirty years old, which is exactly the age at which a structural prune is worth far more than it costs. Take out the competing leader now and you avoid the two-thousand-dollar removal in 2045.