Tree service in Washington Court House, Ohio. Big trees down. Good ones trimmed. Stumps gone.

Jon Parsley and his crew take down trees close to houses, garages and fences, trim the ones worth keeping, grind the stumps and haul it all away. Based in Washington Court House, with regular jobs around Columbus.

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A JP's Trees bucket truck parked under a large, freshly trimmed tree on a sunny day, with a crew member and chipper truck beside it.
A trimmed tree, the bucket truck and the chipper, on a summer job.
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Customers rate JP's Trees five stars.

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A stump grinder cutting into a fresh stump, with a pickup and trailer behind it.
Stump ground out, ground leveled, chips cleaned up.
  • Owner on every job. Jon climbs, runs the bucket and the grinder.
  • Local. Based in Washington Court House, Ohio.
  • Five stars on Google. Read what customers say.
  • Nothing left behind. Stumps ground, chips cleaned up, wood hauled away.
Storm damage

Tree on the house? Here's what to do.

  1. Stay clear. Keep people, pets and cars away from the tree. If a power line is down or touching it, call the power company first.
  2. Call Jon. (614) 582-9056. Say where the tree is and what it's on.
  3. He works calls in order of danger. Trees on homes, vehicles and roads come first, then everything else. After a big storm that can mean a wait, but every call gets answered.

If it looks dangerous, it probably is. Leave it alone and call.

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A storm-snapped tree lying across a driveway next to a house.
Storm tree across a driveway. Out the same day, house untouched.
What we do

Removal, trimming, stumps, storms, clearing, firewood.

Every photo on this page is from a JP's Trees job.

A wide, freshly cut stump with a chainsaw and large log rounds beside it.

Tree removal

Big trees come down in pieces with a bucket truck and ropes, then get cut up, loaded and hauled off.

  • Right up against houses, garages, barns and fences
  • Backyards the truck can't reach, climbed on spikes
  • Trees too big for most crews, roped down without a crane
A bucket truck beside a tall tree whose lower crown has been raised and thinned.

Trimming and pruning

Raising, thinning and deadwooding the trees you want to keep.

  • Busted limbs hanging over the roof
  • Around privacy fences and service lines
A yellow stump grinder working on a stump in a front yard, with a pickup and house behind it.

Stump grinding and cleanup

Stumps ground out below the grass line, the ground leveled, and the chips raked up or hauled away.

  • Ten pines and their stumps out, ground leveled, in a day and a half
  • Dirt hauled in, graded and seeded when a job calls for it
A campus entrance road and lawn with freshly seeded patches where large trees stood.

Commercial and property work

Recurring trimming for businesses, campuses, lake communities and playgrounds, scheduled around your hours. Commercial work

  • Eighteen large trees along a campus entrance, weekends only, ground graded and seeded after
A log splitter and a pile of split firewood beside a compact loader.

Firewood

Split and delivered by the load once the season opens in the fall. Call to set up a delivery.

A cleared hillside with the brush gone, open to a view of the fields beyond.

Land clearing and forestry mulching

Fence rows, rights of way, lots, hillsides and creek banks, mulched or cleared and cleaned up.

  • A right of way 1,100 feet long and 50 feet wide, mulched with 22 larger trees and stumps, in three days
  • A mile of horse fence line; a three-acre thicket; a steep creek bank opened up for the view
How a job goes

From the first look to the last rake.

  1. A look and an estimate. Jon walks the property with you and says what he'd do and what it costs.
  2. Setting up. Bucket truck where it fits, ropes and rigging where it doesn't, climbing where nothing else reaches.
  3. Down in sections. Big trees come apart piece by piece so nothing lands on the house, the fence or the flower bed.
  4. Chip, cut and load. Brush through the chipper, logs cut and loaded.
  5. Stump ground. Below the grass line, so you can mow over it.
  6. Cleanup. Chips blown off, yard raked, everything hauled away.
  7. Back to grade. When a job calls for it, dirt hauled in, graded, seeded and strawed.
Looking straight down a trunk being taken apart in sections, with ropes running to the chipper truck below.
Down in sections.
A red wood chipper hitched behind a pickup on a lawn.
Chipped and loaded.
A crew member using a blower to clear wood chips off a back lawn between two houses.
Blown off and raked.
A back yard with a strip of leveled bare ground where a row of pines and their stumps were removed.
Ground leveled where ten pines stood.
Before and after

Same spot, same week.

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A large tree fallen onto the roof of a brick ranch house. Before
The same brick house with the tree gone and the lawn cleared. After

Storm tree on the house. Off the roof, cut up, hauled, yard raked.

Broken limbs lying across asphalt shingles. Before
The same roof with the limbs gone. After

Storm limbs on a roof, cut up and lifted off. Minimal damage to the house, in Jon's words.

A massive oak standing close to a house, with trucks parked on the street. Before
The same oak reduced to a bare trunk with a bucket truck alongside. After

A monster oak they said would need a crane. Roped and rigged down instead.

A dense wall of brush and small trees along a fence, seen from the mulcher cab. Before
The same fence line cleared to bare mulched ground. After

A mile of horse fence line, mulched from the cab.

Brush and saplings crowding the edge of a lawn. Before
The same edge cleared back, with a mowed strip along it. After

A property edge cleaned up and mowed in a morning.

Cut brush and limbs piled on a steep, overgrown creek bank while the clearing is under way. During
The same hillside cleared of brush, with grass and a view through the remaining trees. After

A steep creek bank cleared so the customer could see the view.

More from the job sites.

A compact track loader parked on top of a very wide stump beside a brick house.
Mini loader parked on the stump, with stump to spare.
A huge bare trunk next to a house, with a bucket truck parked beside it.
One of the biggest trees on the lake, down to the trunk.
A wide lane of freshly mulched ground running between tree lines, with a tracked mulcher at the far end.
A right of way mulched, 1,100 feet by 50, in three days.
A view down through tree branches to a crew member in an orange shirt on the lawn below.
From the canopy, looking down at the crew.
A bucket truck boom reaching over a house roof toward a tree in fall color.
Working the bucket over the house.
A back yard with a privacy fence, a trimmed tree and overhead lines.
Privacy fence, service lines, trimmed anyway.
A maple tree uprooted and lying in lake water beside a lawn.
An uprooted maple in the lake. Out, without anyone getting wet.
A bare elm standing close to overhead power lines.
An elm up in the hot lines, limb by limb.
Two crew members standing under a large tree with a clean, raised crown.
Crown raised, deadwood out.
A cleared lane along a fence line with mulched ground.
Half a mile of fence right of way, cleared for new fence.
A dump trailer loaded with logs and a compact track loader parked on a driveway.
Logs on the trailer, loader on the drive, yard raked out.
Businesses, farms and property managers

Bigger jobs, same crew.

The crew that takes down backyard trees around Washington Court House also clears rights of way and fence rows and keeps business grounds trimmed, on a schedule that works around yours.

Grounds and campuses

Eighteen large trees along a campus entrance, worked on weekends only, then the ground graded and seeded. Recurring trimming for a business property in Columbus.

Rights of way and land

A right of way 1,100 feet long and 50 feet wide, mulched and cleared with 22 larger trees and stumps, in three days. A mile of horse fence line. A three-acre thicket.

Communities and storms

A lake community's power-outage problem tree, gone. Playground trees made safe after a storm. Storm calls handled in order of danger.

Commercial work and land clearing Call Jon to walk the site
A storm-broken tree with a snapped limb grown in between fence lines near a barn.
A storm break hanging between two fences and a barn. The kind that hurts people.
Is my tree a problem?

Six things worth a phone call.

  • A split or crack in the trunk, or a big limb that has started to pull away.
  • A tree that leans more than it did before the last storm.
  • Dead limbs hanging over the roof, the driveway or where the kids play.
  • Branches growing into service lines or power lines.
  • A honey locust with thorns where people and animals walk.
  • Roots undercut by water, or a tree already leaning into the pond.

Not every tree on this list needs to come down. Some just need the dead wood out or a limb taken off the house. Jon will tell you which.

Call for a look
Estimates

What the estimate covers, and what moves the price.

How it works

Call or message Jon. He'll come look at the tree, walk the property with you and give you a price. A few photos sent on Facebook will get you a rough idea faster.

What the estimate spells out

  • Which trees, and what's being done to each
  • Whether the stump is ground, and how far down
  • What gets hauled away, and what stays as logs or firewood if you want it
  • Cleanup, and any grading or seeding

What moves the price

  • The size of the tree, and how many
  • How close it is to the house, the lines and the fence
  • Whether the truck can reach it or it has to be climbed and roped
  • Stump grinding and haul-away

Spring fills up early. If you want trimming done before the leaves come in, call in the winter.

Who you're calling

Jon Parsley's crew, out of Washington Court House.

Jon is on every job: in the bucket, on the saw, on the grinder, and raking up when the tree is down. The truck rolls out at sunrise and rolls in at dark. Most of the work is big, close-quarters removals and trimming around houses and barns.

Most jobs are within about an hour of Washington Court House. Recent ones include Columbus, Grove City, Chillicothe and the Clarks Lakes area. Not sure if your address is in range? Call and ask.

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A bucket truck with a dump trailer carrying a compact loader, parked on gravel.
Bucket truck, dump trailer and loader, headed out.
Sunrise over flat farm fields seen through a truck windshield.
Rolling out as the sun comes up.
Where we work

Within about an hour of Washington Court House.

All of Fayette County and the counties around it: Pickaway, Ross, Highland, Clinton, Greene and Madison, plus Columbus and Grove City. Homes, farms and businesses alike.

Home base

Washington Court House, Jeffersonville, Bloomingburg and the rest of Fayette County

Toward Columbus

Mount Sterling, London, Commercial Point, Ashville, Grove City, Columbus

Toward Chillicothe

Williamsport, Frankfort, Circleville, Kingston, Chillicothe

Toward Dayton

Jamestown, Cedarville, Xenia, Yellow Springs, Beavercreek, Bellbrook, Fairborn

Toward Wilmington and Hillsboro

Sabina, Leesburg, Greenfield, New Vienna, Wilmington, Hillsboro, Waynesville, Lynchburg, Blanchester

Questions people ask

Straight answers.

Do you give written estimates?

Yes. Ask for the scope in writing: which trees, what work, stump or no stump, what's hauled away. That's what you should compare between any two quotes.

Do you grind the stump?

Yes, when you want it gone. It's priced separately so you can decide. Ground below the grass line, the hole leveled, chips cleaned up or hauled.

Do you haul everything away?

Yes. Brush goes through the chipper, logs get loaded and hauled. If you'd rather keep the wood for your own stove, say so when Jon looks at the job.

How soon can you come after a storm?

Emergency trees on houses, vehicles and roads come first, in order of danger. Everything else follows as fast as the crew can get there. After a big storm that can take days, but every call gets answered.

How far out are you booked?

It depends on the season. Spring fills up fast; one March the crew was scheduled into April. Winter is the easiest time to get trimming done before the leaves come in.

Can you work near power lines?

Jon has taken down trees grown into service lines and alongside high-voltage lines. If a line is down or touching the tree, the power company has to deal with the line first.

Can you reach a tree in the back yard?

If the bucket truck can't get there, the tree gets climbed and roped down in pieces. That's slower, so it costs more than a tree the truck can reach from the drive.

Do you clear lots and fence rows?

Yes. Forestry mulching and clearing for fence rows, rights of way, building lots, hillsides and creek banks. Recent jobs run from a mile of horse fence to a three-acre thicket.

Do you sell firewood?

Yes, in season. Split and delivered by the load once the fall cutting starts. Call for availability.

Do you work for businesses, HOAs and parks?

Yes. Recurring trimming for a business property in Columbus, a multi-week removal along a campus entrance done on weekends, lake community and playground trees. Jon schedules around your hours. More on commercial work.

Get an estimate
(614) 582-9056
Call Jon Message on Facebook

Call Jon directly. If nobody picks up, he's probably up a tree. Leave a message with your name, your town and what the tree is doing.

Jon posts most jobs on Facebook, where you can also message him a few photos for a rough idea.

Based in Washington Court House, Ohio.