Tree Service in Silver Springs Shores, FL

Tree Service in Silver Springs Shores often means dealing with trees that were there before the house. Much of the community was laid out as a grid of residential lots through wooded land about ten miles southeast of downtown Ocala, and many homes were built with the original pines and oaks left standing right up against the walls. Decades later, those trees are tall, heavy and sometimes declining. Elite Tree Service Ocala does a lot of removal and clearance work here, along with stump grinding for owners who want an open, sunny yard.

A big community on a lot of land

Silver Springs Shores covers about 15 square miles and counted 24,846 residents in the 2020 census, with nearly 9,900 housing units. Building is still filling in empty lots, so on many streets you see a finished home next to a parcel that is still woods. That has two effects for tree care. First, a tree on the vacant lot next door can still fall on your house, and it is worth knowing who owns it before a storm. Second, newly cleared lots expose trees on the edge that grew up sheltered, and those edge trees are more likely to fail in their first few years of full wind.

Pines are the usual trouble

Tall pines are common on Shores lots, and most removal calls involve them. A pine that has been struck by lightning, attacked by bark beetles or stressed by drought can go from green to brown in a few weeks, and dead pines become brittle quickly. University of Florida research after hurricanes found pines can look fine right after a storm and then decline over the next six months to two years, so a pine that took a beating in a storm season is worth checking again the following year.

Questions to ask about any tree near your house

• Is the top thinning, or are needles or leaves browning from the top down?
• Are there fresh holes, pitch tubes or loose bark on the trunk?
• Is there fungus, soft wood or a cavity near the base?
• Does the tree lean toward the house, and has the lean changed?
• Are limbs over the roof, driveway or a neighbor's property?

If you answer yes to any of these, it is worth an inspection before the next storm season.

How we handle work on tight lots

Most Shores lots have enough room for a chipper in the driveway, but not always for felling a tall pine in one piece. In those cases the tree is climbed and taken down in sections, starting at the top, with each piece lowered or dropped into a planned landing zone. The quote spells out whether the wood is hauled away or cut into rounds and left, and whether the stump will be ground.

Contact

Call (352) 320-5752 or use the form and tell us your street. If the trees in question are on a neighboring vacant lot, let us know that too so we can talk through your options. Get a free estimate