








When a storm drops a tree on your building, it's not just a mess - it's a safety problem that needs to be dealt with the right way. That's exactly what we were working with near Butterfield. A large tree had come down hard onto a metal storage building, crushing the roof and leaving the whole structure compromised. Getting it wrong during removal could have made things a lot worse.
Jobs like this require more than a chainsaw and a pickup truck. The tree was fully loaded onto the building, which means every cut has to be calculated. We work through it in sections, relieving tension carefully so nothing shifts in a direction you don't want. It's slow, deliberate work - and that's exactly how it should be done.
Once the tree was cut down to manageable pieces, we brought in the skid steer with a root grapple to move the heavy log sections out of the tight, wooded area around the building. That kind of equipment makes a real difference on a job like this. Hand-moving logs that size isn't just hard - it's a good way to get someone hurt.
What you're left with after a storm like this is a damaged structure, a yard full of debris, and a lot of decisions to make. Our job is to get the immediate hazard cleared so the property owner can take the next steps without a fallen tree in the way. That's what storm cleanup is really about - getting things back to a manageable starting point.
Whether it's a tree on a building, a yard full of downed limbs, or something more serious, we handle storm cleanup and tree removal across southern Minnesota. The sooner a situation like this gets addressed, the less secondary damage you end up dealing with.