Clarks Summit is a borough in the Abingtons, just northwest of Scranton — a community that cares enough about its trees to keep its own Shade Tree Commission. Freeman The Treeman brings tree removal, trimming, stump grinding, and storm cleanup to homes and businesses throughout the borough and the surrounding Abington area.
Serving Clarks Summit (18411) and the neighboring Abingtons communities — Clarks Green, South Abington Township, Waverly, and Dalton — along with the rest of Lackawanna County.
The full Freeman The Treeman lineup is available across Clarks Summit and the Abingtons — from a single overgrown limb to a complete removal.
Safe, sectional removal of dead, hazardous, or unwanted trees, brought down in controlled pieces and hauled off the property.
Careful cuts that lift limbs off rooflines, wires, and walkways and keep mature shade trees sound and shapely.
We grind stumps down below the surface so the spot can be seeded, mulched, or replanted — nothing left to mow around.
When weather drops a tree on a structure or across a driveway, we prioritize the hazard, clear it safely, and clean up completely.
Straightforward assessments of leaning, damaged, or declining trees — so you know whether pruning, cabling, or removal makes sense.
High limbs and tight quarters are safer from a bucket. Our truck puts the cut exactly where it needs to be without guesswork.
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Clarks Summit takes its street trees seriously: the borough maintains a Shade Tree Commission that studies the shade-tree needs of its public streets and parks and recommends what should be planted along borough streets, backed by a tree ordinance and a published shade tree permit application. When your project involves a street tree or the public right-of-way, we help you sort out what applies before any cutting starts — the borough office is the authority on current requirements, and we work within them.
The setting here is different from big-city tree work. Clarks Summit is a borough of about 5,100 residents, and where trees stand near houses, garages, sidewalks, or wires, the safe approach is a controlled, sectional takedown with rigging, careful equipment placement, and a clean site when we leave — not open felling.
The surrounding Abingtons add their own contexts: properties near the Trolley Trail corridor, homes bordering the shared parkland of the 100-acre Hillside Park area, and everything in between. Whatever the lot looks like, we size up each Clarks Summit job in person and explain the plan before work begins.
Real insurance for real risk. Ask us anything about coverage before we make the first cut — we'd rather answer questions up front.
Bucket truck, chipper, stump grinder, and rigging let us take a tree apart piece by piece between houses, fences, and wires without collateral damage.
We quote the agreed scope in plain terms, do the work we said we'd do, and leave the property cleared of wood and debris.
Reach out and describe the tree situation. We visit your Clarks Summit property, walk the site with you, and hear what you want done.
One clear number for the scope we walked through together — no fuzzy ranges, no surprises added after the crew arrives.
Cutting, rigging, chipping, and hauling — done with the right equipment for your lot, finished with a thorough cleanup.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The borough maintains a Shade Tree Commission, has a tree ordinance, and publishes a shade tree permit application. The borough office is the authority on what applies to any given tree — check with them for current requirements, and we'll talk through your specific situation during the estimate.
Yes. Clarks Summit sits at the center of the Abingtons, and we work throughout the neighboring communities as well — same crew, same equipment, and the same free on-site estimate wherever your property is.
That's exactly the kind of job we plan for. When a tree stands near structures, fences, or lines, we dismantle it in rigged sections rather than felling it, controlling every piece from canopy to trunk.
With planning first and cutting second. We position equipment to protect the surroundings, use rigging to control each section, and coordinate the order of work so anything near wires or walkways comes down safely and deliberately.
Contact us as soon as it's safe. Hazards get priority — a trunk on a roof, a blocked driveway, a limb hanging over a walkway — and we schedule the response by urgency, then clear the debris completely once the danger is down.
For most routine pruning, the dormant months from late fall into early spring are ideal because a tree's structure is easiest to read without leaves. Hazardous or storm-damaged limbs are the exception — those should come down whenever they appear.
Stump grinding is offered with every removal, and full debris hauling is part of how we close out a job. Tell us whether you want the stump ground below grade for replanting, and we'll quote it both ways.
Completely free and no-pressure. We come out, look at the trees in person, explain the options, and give you a clear price — the decision on when and whether to proceed is entirely yours.
Clarks Summit was incorporated as a borough on August 30, 1911, but its story begins over a century earlier: the area's first settler was William Clark, a Revolutionary War veteran who arrived in 1799 and built a cabin on land that is now part of Clarks Green Cemetery. Today the borough of 5,107 residents (2020 Census) anchors the Abingtons region just northwest of Scranton, sitting at the northern terminus of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (I-476).
The community's history rides on old rails. From 1908 to 1932 the Northern Electric Street Railway ran an interurban trolley line between Scranton, Lake Winola, and Montrose, and the Countryside Conservancy is now converting a 14-mile section of that right-of-way into the Trolley Trail — a non-motorized recreational path connecting Clarks Summit, Glenburn, Dalton, La Plume, Factoryville, and eventually Lake Winola.
Community life runs deep here. The Abington Community Library serves the area from 1200 West Grove Street, the annual Clarks Summit Festival of Ice fills the town with ice sculptures each winter, and just outside the borough, the 100-acre Hillside Park — managed by the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board for five area municipalities — offers a fishing lake, walking trails, a community garden, a dog park, and a Boundless Playground. Street trees have their own advocate too: the Clarks Summit Shade Tree Commission looks after the trees lining the borough's streets and parks.
From State Street to the surrounding Abingtons — get a free, no-pressure estimate from a local, insured crew that plans every takedown before the first cut.