Tree Service in Cheshire, CT
Passion For Trees is a Connecticut licensed arborist (CT # S4559) working in Cheshire, about four miles from our Southington base. Rich Ferreira has been in the trees 39 years. We are LINE CLEARANCE QUALIFIED and work for Eversource during major storm restoration. Response is immediately or within the same day.
Why Cheshire homeowners call us
Cheshire is one of the towns we work in most. It is a four-mile run from our yard on Richmond Court, which means a storm call or a hazard assessment does not wait on travel time.
Much of Cheshire's housing stock sits under mature canopy that predates the neighbourhood around it. The older residential streets off Main Street and along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail carry large, long-established shade trees close to houses, driveways and overhead service lines. That combination is exactly the work we are set up for.
What grows here, and what goes wrong with it
Large white and red oak, sugar maple, eastern white pine and hemlock are all common on Cheshire properties.
Ash is the one to watch. Emerald ash borer is established across Connecticut, and a dead ash becomes brittle and unpredictable to climb — which changes how a removal has to be rigged, and why it should not be left standing indefinitely.
Getting to the tree
Many Cheshire removals are access problems rather than cutting problems. Where a bucket truck cannot reach a back garden, Rich climbs it — 39 years of climbing experience reaches trees a large bucket truck simply cannot.
Where equipment does have to cross a lawn, we lay Alturnamats ground-protection mats to drive on, so the turf underneath is not chewed up.
We work for the power company
We are LINE CLEARANCE QUALIFIED arborists — educated and experienced to work around power lines.
Eversource calls us out during big storms to help restore power and remove trees off the wires. That is not ordinary tree work: it is done around live conductors, usually in bad weather, alongside utility crews. If your trees are anywhere near your service wires, that is the standard of crew you want on them.
Do you need a permit to remove a tree in Cheshire?
Connecticut does not generally require a permit to remove a tree on your own property.
What the state does require is that anyone advertising, recommending or soliciting tree work holds a valid Connecticut Arborist licence. Ours is CT # S4559. Being licensed is also what allows us to advise you on what a tree actually needs — including telling you when it does not need to come down.
Insured for the work
We carry $1 million / $2 million aggregate liability insurance, workers compensation and commercial auto. Our equipment is inspected and maintained annually to DOT standards.
Get a quote
Call 203-305-5842. Response is immediately or within the same day — though if Rich is up a tree, leave a message and he will come back to you.