Based in Lawrence, Kansas

Tree work done by people who know the trees here

Name: Kindred Tree Services
Address: 2229 Marvonne Rd, Lawrence, KS, 66047, US
Telephone: (785) 371-4859

Northeast Kansas has its own problems. Emerald ash borer is established across Douglas and Shawnee counties, pine wilt has taken most of the Scots pine windbreaks, and the silver maple planted everywhere in the fifties is the species most likely to drop a limb in a June storm.

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Free written estimates · Cleanup included · Monday to Friday, 8 to 5

Kindred Tree Services. 2229 Marvonne Rd, Lawrence, KS 66047. Call (785) 371-4859 . Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Saturday and Sunday closed.

Kindred Tree Services crew removing a large limb section by section on a Kansas property

Kindred Tree Services crew clearing cut limbs from the work area

Kindred Tree Services crew sectioning a trunk with a chainsaw

How we work

Six things you can hold us to

Not a mission statement. These are the specific commitments that show up on every quote we write.

One price, written before we start

You get the number on paper before any work begins, and plenty of visits end with a trim instead of a removal.

No surprise charges

If the crew finds rot or a hazard once the work starts, we stop and call you before anything changes.

Your property gets protected

Plywood and mats wherever a machine crosses turf. Drop zones planned around what is underneath. On soft ground after rain we reschedule rather than rut a lawn, even when that costs us the day.

Cleanup is included, not an upsell

Chips, limbs, and rounds leave with us, and the work area gets raked and blown down. If you burn firewood, tell us and we will cut the trunk into rounds and stack them for free.

We will talk you out of work

Plenty of calls end with a reduction instead of a removal, or a note to look at the tree again in two years. A tree service that only ever recommends removal is not diagnosing, it is selling.

We stop and call before anything changes

If the saw opens up rot the quote did not account for, the work stops and you get a phone call. You decide what happens next, and nothing gets added to the number without you agreeing to it first.

Why we will not top a tree

Topping means cutting a trunk or main leader back to a stub, and it is still the most commonly requested tree service in Kansas. It is also the one thing we turn down.

A stub cannot close over. The wound stays open, decay moves down into the trunk, and the tree responds by pushing out a dense flush of shoots attached only to the outer layer of wood. Those shoots grow fast, look healthy, and snap in the first real wind. Five years after a topping you have a larger, weaker, more expensive problem than the one you paid to solve.

If a tree genuinely has outgrown its spot, a crown reduction gets you the same clearance by cutting back to living lateral branches that can take over. It costs more and takes longer, and it is the version worth paying for. If the tree is too far gone for that, we will say so and quote the removal instead.

About crown reduction About removal

Same owners

The rest of the family

Trees are what we do, and they are all we do. When a job needs something outside that, it goes to the crew that only does that thing. Shared ownership, separate crews, separate trades.

Kansas City metro

Kindred Outdoor Solutions

The landscape and hardscape side of the group. If a removal leaves a hole in a planting bed, or the yard needs rebuilding once the stump is out, this is who does it.

Hardscapes and retaining walls
Landscape design and planting
Artificial turf and putting greens
Landscape lighting

Visit Kindred Outdoor Solutions

Mature hardwoods over a maintained lawn in northeast Kansas

Topeka and surrounding counties

Clean Cut Lawn Care

Lawn and turf, week to week. The usual handoff is after a removal or a clearing job, when the ground is bare and needs seeding and a mowing schedule.

Mowing and lawn maintenance
Irrigation install and repair
Lawn treatments and seeding
Snow removal

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What happens next

Three steps, and the first one takes 45 seconds

No sales visit, no pressure, and a written number before anyone touches a saw.

1

Tell us about the tree

Three questions, about 45 seconds. Or call and skip the form. Lawrence and Topeka use the same form.
2

We come look at it

We walk the property, check access, and write the quote on site. Free, and you do not need to be home. Tree removal, tree trimming, and stump grinding all get quoted that way.
3

We do the work and clean up

Crew arrives in the window we quoted. Chips, limbs, and debris leave with us unless you want them kept. Storm jobs follow emergency tree removal first, then cleanup.