Tree Removal in Diamond Springs

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Diamond Springs is one of ours. Ring (530) 479-3598 and we'll find you a tree pro, in town near Missouri Flat Road or out toward Pleasant Valley Road.

Tell us what kind of tree and how close it is to the house. That's enough to get started.

A bigger town than folks think

The 2020 census put Diamond Springs at 11,345 people. Even so it's a census-designated place, not a city, and county fire and oak rules apply.

Settlers arrived in 1848 and named it after the crystal clear springs. It's California Historical Landmark number 487.

The fire station built by neighbors

Diamond Springs has deep volunteer fire roots. The county fire district's history page says a small group of locals formed the Diamond Springs Volunteer Fire Company in 1942. They turned an old chemical truck into a working fire truck. Within a week they'd collected $250 for it.

In 1949, volunteers built Station 49 themselves. That station still matters to you today. The El Dorado County Fire Protection District says its Prevention offices are at Station 49, 501 Pleasant Valley Road. Prevention handles things like burn permits and safe burning questions.

Clearing a Diamond Springs lot

Small in-town yard or a few acres out on the edge, the county asks for 100 feet of cleared and thinned ground around the house, or out to the property line if that comes first.

Here's the order we'd tackle it in, if it were ours:

• Start with dead trees and dead limbs close to the house. That's where the danger is.
• Then the brush and low limbs under the trees you're keeping.
• Then grass, mowed low before it goes gold.
• Last, the far corners of the lot, if there's time and budget.

Two local Fire Safe Councils are on the county council's list for this side of town, the Diamond Springs Fire Safe Council and the Logtown Fire Safe Council. Ask them about neighborhood chipping days.

Dead pines around here

When a pine around here fades all through the top, UC IPM says it's dead, and beetles are the usual cause in a dry spell. Read our dead tree page for the signs and the wood rules.

One tip from the Fire Safe Council's beetle page. Don't leave fresh-cut pine wood stacked on your lot unless it's under heavy clear plastic in the sun. The smell pulls beetles in.

Costs in Diamond Springs

For a medium tree, 30 to 60 feet, This Old House lists $450 to $1,200. A pine runs $250 to $1,500 on their chart. Grinding the stump afterward adds $158 to $450 by LawnStarter's numbers.

The real price is the pro's, given after the visit. Want a second one to compare? Say so on the call and we'll try to book another visit.

Ready for the visit?

• Point out the septic tank and leach lines.
• Move cars, the trailer and the woodpile away from the tree.
• Say if a power line runs through the branches.

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