Tree removal in New Gloucester, Maine.
Tree removal in New Gloucester often means a tall pine or oak that was left standing when the house lot was cleared and now leans over the roof, the driveway or the power line. Other calls come after ice and wind, or when an ash tree starts dying back. On lots of two acres or more, there is usually room to drop a tree, but not always without hitting something.
We assess each tree on site with a free estimate, then remove it, whether unwanted, dead, storm-damaged or hazardous, and haul the brush away. Large or hazardous takedowns are quoted case by case.
Hauling now that the town takes no brush
As of June 1, 2026, the New Gloucester Transfer Station no longer accepts brush of any size. The town directs clean brush to Oldcastle Lawn and Garden in Poland, which takes it at no charge. Burning is another path, but New Gloucester Fire & Rescue no longer issues burn permits; they are obtained online through the Maine Forest Service.
Because of that, removal includes getting limbs, tops and chips off the property. Log lengths can stay for firewood if the owner wants them, but ash wood falls under the state's emerald ash borer quarantine and should not be moved out of the area.
Removals on shoreland lots
Within 75 feet of most water bodies and 100 feet of a Class GPA great pond such as Sabbathday Lake, the town requires a buffer of trees and ground cover to stay in place. Removing a storm-damaged, diseased, unsafe or dead tree is allowed, but if it leaves an opening, the ordinance requires replanting with native tree species unless young trees are already coming in. In a Resource Protection District abutting a great pond, cutting within 75 feet is limited to safety hazards.
Stumps in the buffer are usually left to hold the soil rather than ground out, and leaf litter and duff are not stripped away during cleanup.
Why trees fail here
Soil survey mapping helps explain many failures. Lyman-Abram soils put bedrock within about 20 inches, so trees root shallowly and topple in saturated ground. Lamoine and Scantic silts stay wet, and roots stay near the surface. Trees on newly cleared edges, suddenly exposed to wind after the woods around them came down, are at risk too. A removal decision weighs the tree's lean and decay against what it would hit.
Dead · Storm-Damaged · Hazardous
How we handle tree removal
When a tree has to come down, we start with an honest assessment and a free on-site estimate, then remove it — unwanted, dead, storm-damaged or hazardous — and haul the brush away. Large or hazardous takedowns are quoted case by case.
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