Park the truck wrong on Main Street and you'll hear about it before the saw's out of the box. The historic district means anything we do down there gets watched, so we plan the drop zone, the cone line, and the cleanup before a single limb comes off. Up on Temple Hill near the college the lots are tighter and the driveways are steeper than they look from the road, which usually decides whether we're setting the bucket or bringing a crane.
West of the village it's a different job entirely. Those open-grown white oaks and sugar maples out in the hunt country pastures have had 200 years to spread, and a limb on one of them can outweigh a whole yard tree. Nobody flops those. On the properties along the valley wall, the ground falls away toward the flats fast enough that truck positioning is half the work — we've rigged plenty of takedowns from the only flat spot on the parcel. We come down 20A, 39, or off I-390 exit 8 depending on where you are.
Working around Geneseo's hills and historic blocks
Can you get equipment onto a hillside lot above the flats?
Usually yes, but it depends on the slope and the ground conditions that week. If the bucket can't get a safe set, we rig the tree down in pieces from a rope or bring a crane and reach it from the driveway instead.
What happens to the stump and the wood?
We grind stumps flush or below grade, and we haul the wood unless you want it. A lot of folks out this way ask us to buck and stack the oak and maple for firewood, which saves you the haul-off.