Tree Service in Hampton, Ontario

Where we work in Hampton

The village itself along Old Scugog Road, the lots either side of the creek and the mill pond, the properties backing onto the conservation area, and the farms and concession roads spreading out toward Enniskillen, Solina, Haydon and Tyrone.

Hampton is close enough to the yard that it costs you nothing extra to have us out for a look. There is no travel allowance on a Hampton quote and there never has been.

Mill village trees, and why they are big

Henry Elliot put the first mill in here in 1840, and the village grew up around it. That matters for tree work, because it means the oldest lots in Hampton have had trees on them for the better part of two centuries, on frontages laid out long before anybody imagined a Sugar Maple with a metre of trunk on it sitting twelve feet off a house.

What that produces is a lot of genuinely mature hardwood in tight positions. Sugar Maple over rooflines, big Ash, White Pine on the older properties, and Black Walnut, which Hampton has a fair amount of and which brings its own problems. Walnut is heavy, brittle at the union, and it drops nuts that will wreck a lawnmower and stain a driveway for years.

Trees like that are worth keeping properly rather than cheaply. Deadwood out, crown thinned where it has closed up, crossing and rubbing limbs dealt with, on a cycle of a few years. What they do not need is topping, and there are topped trees in this village that prove the point. More on how we approach it is on the pruning page.

The creek valley changes the job

Bowmanville Creek runs right through Hampton on its way down off the Oak Ridges Moraine to the lake, and the conservation area sits on it. Anything growing in that valley is growing in different conditions to the same species four hundred metres up the road: wetter feet, softer ground, more wind funnelling along the cut.

Practically, that means three things. Willow and Manitoba Maple do well down there and then fail suddenly, because fast growth on wet ground makes weak wood. Ground conditions in the valley will not take a machine for large parts of the year, so a removal that would be a half day up on the flat becomes a climbing and rigging job. And work near a regulated watercourse is not automatically yours to do just because the tree is on your property.

We are not a permit service and we will not pretend to be your authority on that. What we will do is tell you at the quote when a job looks like it needs a check with the conservation authority first, because we would far rather ask the question then than find out afterwards.

Farm windbreaks and the concession roads

Step outside the village in any direction and it is farmland. Rural tree work around Hampton is mostly windbreaks, laneways and hedgerow: long rows of Norway Spruce and White Cedar planted decades ago, now with dead lower thirds and gaps where individuals have gone; old Maple lanes along farm drives; fence lines that have quietly become full hedgerow.

A windbreak is worth maintaining rather than replacing, because a gap in a row funnels wind faster than open ground does. Usually that means taking out the dead and the failing individually and keeping the row intact. Fiddly, but far less disruptive than starting again.

Where it is bigger than that it becomes lot and brush clearing: opening a building envelope, reclaiming a field edge that has grown in, or clearing scrub off ground nobody has touched in twenty years. Laneway and roadside clearance is normal work out here too, and so is 24/7 storm response, because the concession roads are exactly where a tree comes down across the only way in.

Everything we do in Hampton

Tree removal, pruning and trimming, stump grinding, hedge and shrub work, lot and brush clearing, laneway and roadside clearance, planting and mulching, and 24/7 storm and emergency response.

Fully insured with proof available up front, WSIB covered, and the site cleaned down properly before we leave. Free on-site estimates anywhere in the village or on the roads around it.

Hampton sits between Bowmanville to the south and the Scugog end of our range at Port Perry, and we work Courtice and Oshawa to the west.