We Buy and Salvage Trees

Stop the bulldozers.
Don’t get out the chain saw.
We can save you the expense and grief of cutting down your trees and possibly even pay you for them.

Trees we are looking for:

We salvage a wide variety of healthly, well-formed ornamental trees such as oaks, pines magnolia and etc. Well form means that they are not crowded or shaded by another tree and are full on at least 3 sides.

Trees we can't help you with:

Queen palms, Mexican fan palms or Washingtonia robusta, unless you have 20 so, less than 20’ height, Populus (cottonwood), ash, eucalyptus or any tree not meeting the criteria below

Salvage tree criteria:

Excellent form & healthy-

(excellent form can mean low branching, multiple trunks, or single stems)

Accessible by heavy equipment

This means if you have a gate less than 9’ wide into the back yard we can’t access the tree. A few high value trees may be moved with a crane in which case truck accessibility is not an issue.

Room around the tree-

We need at least a 6’ radius out from the trunk free of anything except soil, i.e. no driveway, sidewalk, concrete planter, or curb within 6’ of center of the tree trunk.

Utilities-

No wires within 10’ of the top of the tree, or underground utilities (water lines can be repaired)

Soil-

No large rocks within 4’ of surface and out 6’ from the trunk

Timing-

How soon does tree need to be removed? Some trees require months of pre-transplanting treatment.

Sizes-

We want from 4”-16” of trunk diameter at 3-4’ off the ground. Heights - 12’ to 35’, except for some very slow growing trees or palms.

Geographic location-

Unless there are a large number of high value trees we confine our salvage operations to San Diego County, Southern Riverside & Orange County

Cost to remove or price paid for the tree-

Variable depending on the above criteria and tree type.

To salvage your trees or for more info please email charlie@bigtreesnursery.com or call 858-487-5553