Tree Removal
Whether a tree is damaged, dead, or a safety hazard, our crews ensure safe and efficient removal with minimal disruption to your property.
Learn more →Local, expert tree care for Cumberland's larger, wooded properties, from removals to structural pruning, backed by written estimates and the insurance that matters.
Serving Cumberland, Rhode Island through our Providence crew, with the same expert arborists, the same standards, and the same around the clock availability.
Cumberland's larger residential lots and wooded borders, more suburban than the dense inner core cities, mean a lot of our work here is removing or managing trees within a mixed stand, not a single specimen tree.
Whether a tree is damaged, dead, or a safety hazard, our crews ensure safe and efficient removal with minimal disruption to your property.
Learn more →Keep your trees safe, structured, and looking right. We remove dead or overgrown branches, improve clearance, and reduce storm risk.
Learn more →When storms cause tree damage, our emergency team responds quickly to remove hazards, clear debris, and restore safety.
Learn more →Strategic pruning, cabling, and bracing to reduce storm damage risks before severe weather hits.
Learn more →Identifying potential hazards before they become problems. Tree stability, structural integrity, and surrounding risks evaluated on-site.
Learn more →Get expert arborist guidance without a site visit. Share photos or video of your trees and receive a written assessment and estimate within 24 hours.
Learn more →Simplify tree care across multiple properties with a single, trusted provider. Consistent maintenance and emergency response.
Learn more →One point of contact for the whole community: scheduled rounds, reports a board can read, and uniform standards across every lot.
Learn more →ROW maintenance, public works contracts, and storm response for city forestry teams. We handle permits and traffic plans.
Learn more →Corporate campuses, hospital systems, and headquarters landscapes. Quarterly walks, annual risk reports, and paperwork your facilities team can keep on file.
Learn more →Fast dispatch to any property in our service area, with the insurance that matters and safety plans your operations team can review.
Learn more →A geotagged inventory of every tree on the property: species, age, condition, and recommended work, refreshed annually.
Learn more →Real reviews from real customers, straight from our Google Business Profile. Here's what people say once the crew has packed up and the yard is clean.
March 11th, a brief but strong storm came through Goodlettsville and blew over two giant trees in my front yard; one which was being supported by a 3rd tree that was facing and threatening my house. It was an…
From the time I inquired w this company about removing a tree that was strongly impacted from the major strong 80 mph winds on March 3, 2023, they provided us w exceptional service in every way . They were…
My family had a tree removal emergency! A large tree in our back yard was on fire and splitting down the middle. The fire department came out the night before to extinguish the fire, but when I woke up the…
Cumberland is more suburban and wooded than the denser cities closer to Providence proper, with larger lots that often back up to mixed stands of maple, hemlock, and pine rather than a single yard tree standing alone. That changes the calculation an arborist has to make. Removing or heavily thinning one tree on a Cumberland property can shift wind loading onto the trees left standing next to it, so the plan has to account for the whole stand, not just the tree that prompted the call, especially on the acidic, rocky glacial till typical of this part of Rhode Island.
A tree that has spent decades growing inside a stand develops a narrower, less wind adapted crown than one that grew alone in the open, since its neighbors did most of the wind buffering for it. Take that neighbor away suddenly and the remaining tree is exposed to loads it was never structurally built for, which is exactly the kind of edge effect a TRAQ qualified assessment accounts for before any cutting plan is finalized. Every pruning recommendation that follows still runs to ANSI A300 standards, whether the work is thinning a stand edge or addressing a single specimen tree.
Eastern hemlock still holds on in some of Cumberland’s older wooded lots, and hemlock woolly adelgid is the quiet threat there, thinning a stand gradually until a storm exploits the weakened crowns. Emerald ash borer is active in the town’s ash population as it is across the county, and sugar maple, more common here than in the denser inner cities, is slow to recover once its shallow root run is disturbed by construction or storm heave. Given how much wooded, mixed canopy Cumberland carries, we look hard at stand structure, not just individual trees, before recommending removal or pruning.
A weakened hemlock deep inside a stand can go unnoticed for a season or more, since the trees around it mask the thinning crown from the road, which is why a walk through the actual stand matters more in Cumberland than a look from the driveway would elsewhere. Sugar maple’s slower recovery from root disturbance also means storm damage here can compound over several seasons rather than resolving in one. Permit needs can vary by lot and zoning, so we confirm what a specific Cumberland address requires before work begins, and every crew carries the insurance that matters.
Cumberland is in the Providence service area. Calls route through national intake until local coverage is verified.
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March 11th, a brief but strong storm came through Goodlettsville and blew over two giant trees in my front yard; one which was bei...

From the time I inquired w this company about removing a tree that was strongly impacted from the major strong 80 mph winds on Mar...



My family had a tree removal emergency! A large tree in our back yard was on fire and splitting down the middle. The fire departme...



Great service, communication and fair pricing. Would recommend for any job big or small this company is the real deal! Thanks CATS...



The day before Easter we discovered our largest tree had rotted and split more than halfway through. It had become very dangerous...


I highly recommend this company. Sales guy was awesome. He stepped me through the entire process. Gave me a great quote that I cou...


We found the company to be very efficient, listened carefully to our requests and suggestions. It was a pleasure to work with th...



CATS and the Treemasters crew were awesome. They were so careful taking down a large hackberry and trimming another hanging right...

Highly recommend. We unfortunately had a large tree branch break and hanging over our house about to fall and cause some serious d...
Michael, Antonio and his crew did a fantastic job trimming the trees in the butterfly sanctuary that is our yard in Hendersonville...
Found Joe through a neighbor of ours, so happy we did. He lives and works in East Nashville- super personable and professional. Wo...