Tree Care in Chappaqua, NY

If you're looking at the trees around your Chappaqua home and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Most of the houses here were built in the 1950s, which means the trees are now about 74 years old. That's when many common landscape species reach a critical point of structural decline. You'll see this with the silver maples and Bradford pears that builders favored for their fast growth. The problem is, a tree that looks fine from the outside can have serious internal decay that started years ago. We use simple tools like a mallet to sound the trunk; solid wood rings clear, while decayed wood sounds dull. This hidden weakness, combined with our 47 inches of annual rain and 13 storms a year, is what leads to sudden failures.