Usually. Our 72-foot spider lift and mini skid-steer both fit through a 36-inch gate, which lets us remove or prune large trees over roofs and fences without a crane or a climber over the house.
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- 72-foot spider lift. Tracked, narrow, and it fits through a 36-inch gate. Set up beside the house, it puts the arborist in the canopy from a stable platform instead of a climber on ropes over your roof. That makes outer-canopy reductions and dead-tree removals safer, and it is why some of our back-yard quotes come in lower than a crane job.
- Mini skid-steer with a grapple. Also through the gate, to load and haul the wood and brush instead of dragging it across your lawn by hand.
What we need from you: a 36-inch clear opening (gate off the hinges is fine), a path the lift can track along without crossing a septic drain field or a sprinkler manifold, and a word about anything buried we should avoid. The arborist checks all of this on the estimate visit.
When the lift genuinely cannot reach, we climb (our climbers are the best part of the crew) or, for the rare tree, we bring a crane and say so in the quote.
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