That leaning, dead limb over the house is one storm from the roof.
You can see it from the driveway. A dead limb hanging over the shingles. A trunk that leans a little more each year. An old cottonwood or silver elm that sheds something sizable every time the wind comes down off the foothills. You notice it, you try not to think about it, and every season it sits there it gets a little more likely to go. Boise trees have a hard life: high-desert summers bake them, winter ice loads them up, and the wind finishes the argument.
The wrong answer is a chainsaw and a ladder on a Saturday. Tree work is genuinely dangerous, and a tree dropped wrong takes the roof or the truck with it. That is why we rig and lower big sections instead of dropping them, and why every tree gets a hazard check before the first cut.
Boise Tree Boys is a family-owned, second-generation crew: ISA Certified Arborists, licensed, bonded, and insured, with over 40 years of Treasure Valley trees behind them. When you call, a local person picks up. We know how the North End's old canopy carries ice, which species on the Bench go hazardous first, and how to bring a tree down in inches of clearance without touching the house.
On price, the honest answer is that it depends. Size, access, and what the tree hangs over move the number more than anything else. The estimate is free either way. Call (208) 902-2295 and we will tell you what we would do, what it would cost, and whether it can safely wait. No obligation.
