What the crews handle
Most calls land in one of five buckets. Tree removal is the flagship: dead ash the borers finished, storm-split maples, oaks leaning harder than they used to, anything standing where it can no longer safely stand. Tree trimming and pruning keeps the trees worth keeping — deadwood out, crowns thinned, limbs raised off rooflines before ice season loads them up. Stump grinding takes the leftover stump below grade so the shoots stop coming back and the mower stops finding it. Emergency tree service covers the any-hour work: a trunk across the driveway, a limb hanging by bark over the sidewalk, a tree on the roof after a gust front. And land and lot clearing opens up building sites, fencerows, and acreage that cedars and brush have been quietly taking back.
Residential and commercial properties both get the same treatment — a backyard silver maple gets the same careful look as a row of parking-lot shade trees or a school ground's legacy oak.
How a job starts
Every job begins one of two ways: a call to (417) 742-8635 or the Get a Free Estimate form. The phone line is on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because the work this area generates doesn't keep business hours — 24/7 storm damage and fallen tree response is the standing commitment. Say what the tree is doing and how urgent it feels. Genuinely dangerous situations get treated that way; a stump that has waited five years can wait a little longer for a scheduled visit.
The estimate itself happens at the property, where the things that actually determine difficulty — height, lean, access, and what's underneath — can be seen instead of guessed at. It's free, it's in writing, and there's no obligation attached. One thing gets said out loud every time it applies: if a tree or limb is in contact with a power line, City Utilities of Springfield gets the first call, before any saw work is even discussed.
Where the trucks go
Home base is Springfield, and the working radius runs about 30 miles in every direction — all of Greene County plus the ring of towns around it: Nixa, Ozark, Republic, Battlefield, Marshfield, and Bolivar. Same services, same free estimates, same phone number across the whole area.
Why this work matters here
Springfield asks more of its trees than most Missouri cities. The ground is thin, cherty soil over karst limestone — some of the densest sinkhole terrain in the state — which leaves big oaks and maples shallow-rooted and prone to going over whole when wind meets saturated ground. Winter brings glaze: the January 2007 ice storm is still the local benchmark for what a coating of ice does to an overmature canopy. Spring brings straight-line wind, most recently the April 2025 storm that gusted to 91 mph at the airport and put trees onto homes and poles across town. In between, the emerald ash borer has been killing Greene County ash since it was confirmed here in 2018, and the Bradford pears planted through decades of subdivisions keep splitting at their weak branch unions in every serious blow.
That is the workload this service exists for — and why the phone stays on all night.