Getting a crane and a chip truck out to Orleans County means planning around the lift bridges. If the canal bridge is up when we're rolling through, we sit and wait like everybody else, so we stage equipment early and work the whole day in one trip instead of running back and forth from Rochester. The Rt 31 and Rt 98 corner is the pinch point in the village — we'd rather set up on a side street and drag brush than block that intersection with a bucket truck.
Work here splits into two kinds. In the village, it's big old street trees leaning over Medina sandstone buildings around the courthouse square and the mature stuff near Mount Albion Cemetery — careful rigging, no room to drop anything free. Out past the village line it's orchards and vegetable ground, where the calls are usually windbreak rows that have gone brittle, hedgerow clearing, or a hard maple that split at a bad crotch. Both get the same crew. The setup's just different.
Batching Albion jobs so the drive earns its keep
Do you charge extra because you're coming from Rochester?
We don't tack on a separate travel line. What we do is schedule Albion work in blocks, so if a neighbor or a nearby farm wants something done the same week, mention it — two jobs on one trip is easier for us to price than one.
Can you take down a tree without getting a truck into the back field?
Usually, yes. Soft ground in spring and after harvest rain is the real limit, not distance. We'll walk it first and tell you honestly whether it's a crane reach from the lane, a climb-and-rig job, or something worth waiting for dry ground on.