Our Services: Root Removal

Tree roots are active extensions of the tree that provide support and supply water, oxygen, and essential elements needed of a tree consists of 60 percent trunk, 15 percent branches, 15 percent large transport roots, 5 percent leaves, and 5 percent fine feeder roots. The large woody transport roots increase regularly in diameter, and will even display annual rings. It is the increase in size that swells the base of the trees, raises the earth around them, and lifts the sidewalks and driveways. Roots will die when oxygen supplies are cut off by flooding, soil compaction or construction of large, impervious pavement areas on the ground surface. The Framework of the major root system usually lies less than one foot below the surface. It often grows outward to the diameter of one to two times the height of the tree. Root decay is very often insidious and difficult to detect. Sometimes the work of the organisms that cause root decay can go unnoticed because the smaller feeder roots may go right on absorbing water and lawn fertilizer, until one day the tree falls over! To detect root decay, look carefully for "mushrooms" on or near the base of the tree.