With increasingly unpredictable and severe weather affecting the Kawarthas region, you want a professional arborist you can trust to proactively keep your trees healthy and thriving while also safely tackling emergency situations.
That’s the expertise you’ll find with Peterborough-based Thornton Tree Solutions, a professional service committed to safe, efficient, and ethical tree work in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, and surrounding areas.
Founder Matt Thornton is an ISA-certified arborist with over 15 years of industry experience working in both the private and municipal sector. He is also an ArborCanada-certified chainsaw technician instructor, ensuring he and his team are servicing clients efficiently with safety at front of mind.
From year-round pruning and cabling to stump grinding and precision tree removal, service from Thornton Tree Solutions is firmly rooted in caring for the health and longevity of the trees while maintaining the curb appeal of your property.
The team also offers tree planting because, although many people think they can do their own planting, there are many long-term defects that could result from a poorly planted tree. These defects often go unnoticed until the tree is sick and it’s late to do anything about it, because the tree is already firmly rooted.
If you’re concerned about a tree’s structure or longevity, Thornton recommends getting it accessed early in the spring before the leaves grow back and add more weight and obstruct the view.
He also says regular pruning of your trees will not only help prevent damage from falling limbs, but enhance a tree’s growth and vigour, strengthening it to deal with weather events, and can go a long way for ensuring the long-term health of the tree.
“Proactive is always better than reactive,” says Thornton. “Tree pruning is prioritizing the safety of the home and people around it, but also setting the tree up for storm readiness. That’s super important because we don’t want any unforeseen events.”
When those reactive measures are necessary after a storm hits, Thornton Tree Solutions is prepared to tackle emergency situations and storm damage clean-up any day of the week. While tree removal is already the most dangerous part of the job, removing a tree that has suffered storm damage can pose an even greater risk and should only be done by a certified professional.
Thornton kickstarted his career during a summer of major windstorms, so he is not only well-trained in emergency situations and storm clean-up but knows how to tackle even the most unexpected situations that come his way.
“That’s really what got me excited about this industry — the variability about what each project can have,” he says. “Every tree is its own puzzle.”
For more information on Thornton Tree Solutions, visit www.thorntontreesolutions.com or contact Matt Thornton at matt@thorntontreesolutions.com or 705-957-0233.
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