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Tree Trimming in Omo Ranch

Out on the ridge at Omo Ranch? Call (530) 248-6524, give us your road, and we'll line up a tree pro willing to make the drive. We book the visit, and you hear the price from the pro.

A ridgetop that used to run on logs

Wikipedia says Omo Ranch was once a logging town with a sawmill. The mill closed in 1973. A post office ran from 1888 to 1974, and the name "Omo" comes from a Native American village. Today it's a rural, residential place. The 2020 count was 284 residents.

So this is a small ridge community, far from a city, at 3,612 feet. It's about 12.5 miles south-southeast of Camino. You'll find a lot of forest and not many neighbors.

Close to where the Caldor Fire started

The Caldor Fire's start was about two miles east of Omo Ranch, says Wikipedia. It burned slowly at first, then grew fast on August 16, 2021, when winds and heavy fuel came together. By the 17th it was 30,000 acres.

The lesson in that sentence is "high fuel loads." Fuel means dry brush, small trees and low branches packed together. Limbing up and thinning cut the load around your house. The numbers are on the limbing up pines page.

One note on how far to go. The ISA says not to take more than about a quarter of a crown at once. So the job may take two or three winters.

Space and sparse help

When houses are far apart, so are the services. A tree pro takes time to arrive and time to leave. The cost guides charge by the hour in many cases: $86 to $148 on Homeyou, and $60 to $80 on Thumbtack.

That means it helps to batch the work. If you have three trees that need attention, do them in a single visit. Ask a neighbor if they have a tree too. Pros can often do two lots in a trip.

Snow and the cold

Omo Ranch is a few hundred feet lower than Pollock Pines, and it is a ridgetop, so it gets weather. We don't have an official snow average for Omo Ranch. For a guide, Pollock Pines gets about 63 inches a year and roughly 17 snowy days.

Wet snow breaks weak limbs. The fix is the same as anywhere: look in October. See snow-load thinning.

Wood you cut yourself

Out here, many people cut their own firewood. A few rules from UC's bark beetle note help. Don't pile fresh, unseasoned wood near trees you want to keep. Don't haul firewood from place to place. The fire checklist adds: woodpiles at least 30 ft out, on bare soil that reaches 10 ft in every direction.

Prices

Fixr lists a typical trimming job at $175 to $750 and pine trimming at $200 to $1,800. A chipper add-on is $50 to $100 on Thumbtack. Homeyou says dead wood cleanup runs $176 to $428.

The pro looks at the drive and the slope before quoting.

One small town, one phone call

Because Omo Ranch is small and far out, one call goes a long way. Give us the road name, a rough idea of how many trees, and anything about the drive, such as a locked gate. We pass it all to the pro, who arrives ready.

Nearby

Close by: Grizzly Flats, Fair Play, Somerset. For a yearly plan in Omo Ranch, open the care-by-season table. Back to the Pollock Pines home page, or see the other towns near Omo Ranch.