Tree Removal in Lewiston, Michigan

How far out this is, and what it costs you

This goes first, because nobody should learn it from the quote. Lewiston is about 73 miles from our shop in Hale, close to an hour and a half each way, and that is well past the 25-mile mark where a travel line starts showing up on an estimate. Every Lewiston job carries one. It is its own line, you see it in writing before you agree to anything, and it does not change the rest of how we work: there is still nothing to pay until the job is done and you are happy with it.

Firewood delivery does not reach Lewiston. Our delivered price covers 20 miles from Hale, Lewiston is more than three times that, and the mileage at this distance would cost more than the wood. What we can do instead is buck and stack what comes off your own trees while we are on site, which is the sensible way to get a winter's wood out of a Lewiston job. We also batch Lewiston work with other jobs up that way whenever we can, so if you are not in a hurry, say so and we will fit you into a run.

Ice storm damage still in the trees

Montmorency County was one of the ten counties put under a state of emergency on March 31, 2025 after the ice storm of March 28 to 31. The declaration named widespread power outages, impassable roads and significant damage to homes and businesses across those counties. A lot of what that storm did is still standing around Lewiston: cracked leaders, tops broken out, limbs hung up in the canopy, pines bent over that never came back up. Those do not come down on a calm day. They come down in the next hard wind, usually onto whatever is underneath them. If you have ice damage still hanging over a cottage, a drive or a bunkhouse, call (989) 305-9731 and we will take it out from the bucket truck.

Cottage lots on the Twin Lakes

Lewiston sits between East Twin Lake and West Twin Lake with Tee Lake off to the side, and the lots on them are cottage lots: narrow, built close to the water, with the trees left standing where they were when the place went up. Decades on, those trees are over the roof, over the deck and over the neighbor's cottage. Taking one down means dismantling it from above in pieces instead of dropping it, which is bucket truck and rigging work, and that is what we are set up for. The trees themselves are the northern Michigan mix we work in every day: pine on the sandy high ground, red oak and aspen through it, and ash in the low spots that emerald ash borer has mostly finished off.

A large share of the places up here are seasonal. We are used to walking a lot with an owner on a weekend, or quoting from photos, doing the work while you are downstate and sending pictures when it is done. That matters more at this distance, not less. One trip with the job properly understood beats two.

Oak wilt, dead ash and Montmorency County permits

Oak wilt is confirmed in Montmorency County. The DNR asks that nobody prune or wound an oak between April 15 and July 15, when the beetles that carry the fungus are flying, and we hold to that, so oak work around Lewiston is dormant-season work. A red oak can die within a season once it is infected, and oaks in a woodlot are joined through their roots, so one oak dropping its leaves in July is worth a phone call. Do not haul firewood off an oak that died of wilt; the fungus travels with it.

Emerald ash borer has been statewide for years, and the ash in the low ground is brittle standing timber now. Dead ash comes down from the bucket, not by sending a climber up a trunk that may not hold. On permits, Montmorency County runs its own soil erosion and sedimentation control permitting through the county building department, and a permit is generally needed for an earth change within 500 feet of a lake or stream, which is most of the lots on the Twin Lakes. We check whether yours needs one before we quote. Every stump grind also gets a MISS DIG 811 locate, which takes three business days, and that is worth planning around when the crew is coming from this far off.

Storm calls at this distance

The storm line is (989) 305-9731, the same number, answered around the clock in storm season, and trees on structures come first. Be straight with us about what you are looking at and we will be straight back: Lewiston is an hour and a half out, so if a tree is on your house at two in the morning we will tell you honestly when we can be there rather than give you a time we cannot keep. If the tree is down on the wire from the pole to the house, we arrange a temporary disconnect with your utility before we cut. Under Consumers Energy's rules that service drop is the homeowner's responsibility, and the other utilities up here work much the same way.