Reading, Pennsylvania · Berks County
Bob Stoudt owns this business and climbs on it. Large and dangerous removals, pruning that does not damage what is left, stump grinding, and storm work answered around the clock, across Berks County for more than twenty years.
4.7 stars across 35 Google reviews · Phone answered 24 hours · Free estimates
What the record says
Bob Stoudt has worked with trees for more than two decades and still does the climbing himself. Thirty-five people have gone back to Google to say so, and the review that gets repeated is not about the felling. It is about what the yard looked like afterwards.
4.7
Google rating
35
Reviews
20+
Years in the canopy
24 hrs
Storm calls answered
Before anybody starts a saw
Where the weight sits, what is underneath it, and how the machine gets in without touching anything you care about. That is the whole visit, and it is free.
What he is reading
Long leads over a roof, a co-dominant stem split at the union, a dead lead you cannot see from the ground. The order the tree comes apart in is decided here.
The tracked lift is narrow enough for a side gate and runs on rubber. If it fits, the job is a morning. If it does not, it is a rigging job and the estimate says so.
A fence line, a shed roof, a septic bed, a neighbor's fruit tree. Anything that cannot take a limb gets a rope on the piece above it before the cut is made.
Off the property, cut to stove length, or chipped into your own beds. Deciding this first is what keeps a lawn from being crossed twice.
Canopy to swept lawn
This is the same sequence on a black walnut in Exeter Township and on a storm-split maple in Mount Penn. It is worth reading before you take a price off anybody, because the difference between two quotes is almost always which of these stages the cheaper one is planning to skip.
In the crown
Bob is the owner and he is the climber, which in this trade is not the same person often enough. On a tree that is staying he goes up on rope and saddle rather than spikes, because spikes put a wound every eighteen inches up a trunk that has to live with them afterwards.
Out over the yard
A tracked spider lift walks in on rubber, sets its legs on the patio, and reaches over a six-foot fence into the middle of a back yard. It is the difference between a tree in a tight spot being a two-day rigging job and being an ordinary morning.
Down the spar
Over a parking lot, over wires, over a neighbor's roof: the stick comes down a few feet at a time and each piece is lowered on a line. Nothing swings, nothing lands where it was not meant to, and nothing needs to be explained to anybody afterwards.
On the ground
The trunk is cut to length beside the house and loaded. If you burn, it can be left at stove length instead. If you have beds to feed, the brush is chipped and dropped where you want it. Pam Snyder got all three on one job and said so in her review.
Swept
That sentence is Lesli Rhoads', not ours. The stump is ground out, the hole is backfilled with its own grindings, the chip is raked off the grass, and the part of this job you actually live with is the part nobody notices.
What we get called for
The three that come up most often, and all of them start with somebody standing in a yard looking up. Ground work is below.
Crown work
The awkward ones. Sixty feet of black walnut over a fence line, a pin oak in a tight space, a dying maple leaning at the house.
Tree removal detailsGround work
Answered 24 hours
A tree came down in the night. That call gets taken tonight.
After a storm
Dennis Melton had a storm-damaged tree down across his own yard and his neighbor's. From his first call to a cleared property was under a week, in the middle of the worst of it. Storm work is the one job that jumps the schedule, and the phone is answered overnight.
In their words, not ours
“Bob and his team did a great job of removing 2 large trees including grinding down the stumps. You would never know there were trees here. I highly recommend.”
“The owner responds to your call in very timely manner and will work with you for scheduling. Very reasonably priced! He was willing to cut 3 of my trees to length for a wood stove and chip my pine for mulch. Excellent job overall and great site cleanup.”
“Bobby & his team did a phenomenal job at my house yesterday! He trimmed down a massive black walnut tree & cherry tree. Removed another black walnut tree in our backyard. Lastly, he trimmed down our cherry blossom tree in our front yard too. Did a wonderful job cleaning up & limb removal. Pricing was fair & Bobby will work within your budget.”
“From the initial call to the completed work was less than one week. Given the amount of storm damage in the area and the fact tree debris was effecting our neighbors, we were very pleased with Bob's response time and sensitivity to the situation.”
Asked before every estimate
Berks County, Pennsylvania
Including, sometimes, that it does not need to come out. Estimates are free, Bob comes out himself, and there is no version of this where somebody talks you into a removal on the phone.
19 Pickwick Place, Reading, PA 19606 · Alternate line (610) 750-1118