About Silas Creek Tree Co

How a quote comes together

Ring the number, or describe the tree and its location on the form. From there a vetted local tree company picks it up: a walk of the property, a look at the trunk and the crown and the way in for equipment, and then a written price with the scope on it. The guides on this site exist so you have figures to hold that price up against. Nothing in the process carries a charge.

What people call about

• Mature oaks over older housing. The bulk of it. Willow and water oak planted along neighborhood streets decades ago, now sixty to eighty feet with limbs over roofs and driveways.
• Storm work after ice. Trees on structures, limbs hung up in canopies, and the sorting job of deciding what has to move today and what can wait a week.
• Trees in decline. Bacterial leaf scorch working through a red oak, ash dying back after emerald ash borer, water oaks reaching the end of a life that was never as long as people assume.
• Clearing. Fence lines and back sections that have filled with privet, honeysuckle, and volunteer sweetgum, and lots being opened up for building.

Why the trees here get their own guides

Winston-Salem is a heavily wooded city. City Urban Forestry figures put the canopy at 47.28 percent averaged across the eight wards, against a recommended 40 percent for eastern cities and a national average of 27.1 percent, and city crews look after more than 100,000 trees on public land. The species mix is Piedmont hardwood, and the ground is Cecil, the state soil since 1997: about a foot of sandy loam over red kaolinitic clay running several feet down. Trees respond by rooting wide and shallow rather than deep, which is why trenching and equipment traffic matter more here than most people expect.

The winter is the other half of it. This part of North Carolina sits where storms often arrive as freezing rain instead of snow, and glaze ice loads every twig in a leafless crown. December 2002 is the reference point: the North Carolina Utilities Commission recorded up to an inch of ice across forty counties, roughly two million electric customers affected, and restoration running to the middle of the month. Generic national tree advice is not written for that combination of species and weather. The guides here are.

Marks of a job done properly

• The tree identified before the price. Species, rough size, and condition, because a water oak and a white oak of the same height are different jobs with different futures.
• Scope written down. Removal, reduction, and deadwood are three different pieces of work, and a quote that distinguishes them is one you can compare against another.
• Debris settled in advance. The city does not collect brush cut by contractors, so where the wood and the chips go is part of the price rather than an afterthought.
• Access agreed. Whether a machine crosses the lawn, whether a crane is coming, and what the ground looks like afterward are all things to establish before the day.

Where we cover

Winston-Salem first, then across Forsyth County to Clemmons, Kernersville, Lewisville, Rural Hall, Walkertown, Pfafftown, Tobaccoville, and Bethania, north to King, and southwest across the Yadkin to Advance. Tree work is performed by independent licensed contractors we connect you with.

Getting hold of us

The number is (336) 729-8100, and the quote form works just as well. Either way you hear back inside a working day. A photograph of the tree taken from far enough back to show the whole thing, plus one of the trunk base, makes the first conversation a much better one.