Cutting Edge Tree Care, LLC

Cutting Edge Tree Care, Limited Liability Company was established in January 2010.  Its Lafayette, CO owner wanted to create a company where top climbing arborists were the result of running a well organized company and making on the job training just a part of the normal day.  We pride ourselves on our reputation, years of experience in the tree care industry, and years of  business administration expertise.  If you want your trees to be taken care of the way they should be, please call us for a free estimate.

Kit Wagner has a MBA in Strategic Management and Finance/Accounting.  She has a professional background in Human Resources and over a decade of business administration experience.  She is managing the office and handling billing/invoicing, scheduling and marketing.  She is also the Qualified Supervisor for our Plant Health Care division and is licensed through the Colorado Department of Agriculture.  Her passion for our environment, trees, bees, and all the species in between are what has brought her to CETC in her role as the sole female business owner.  She typically answers the phone when you call and you will always deal directly with Kit as far as scheduling, billing, and questions are concerned.

Justin MacDougall aka “Steamy MacDreamy” is our lead foreman here at CETC.  He will personally meet with you to discuss your property and come up with a tree care plan appropriate for the species in your yard and your long-term goals for specific sites on your property.  Then he will come and prune or remove that tree as you discussed with him in person.  He is passionate about trees, climbing, doing things the right way even if they take longer, and always being a man of his word.  Steamy loves what he does which is why he makes technical removals and day to day operations look easy.

We call him Steamy because after Patrick Dempsey there came Justin.  Steamy MacDreamy will awe you with his sophistication and Arboriculture degree and his overall breadth of knowledge about everything tree and climbing.  He came to CETC in the late summer of 2018 after the tornado hit Kit’s place and friends from all over the country showed up to help in the clean up efforts.  Steamy thought he would be in Colorado for a few weeks and that has turned into hopefully forever.  Once he (and all of us here at CETC) realized he fit into our chosen tree family just perfectly, Justin chose to stay and continue his advancements in arboriculture and lead the crew everyday with his happy upbeat attitude.  We all love our Justin and are thrilled to call him CETC family.

Patrick Nehring has been here for years.  Pat is the lead PHC spray technician and lead ground foreman.  He shows up first every day and is also the last to leave.  He is why “We are always a team” literally has meaning day in and day out year after year.  You may see him hauling brush, handling a rigging line, spraying a very special tree worth saving or driving the rig.  Pat makes happy people look unhappy.  We love his upbeat never give up and in it to the end attitude. Just recently, Pat has started climbing under the mentorship of Justin.

Bryan Tempini is our newest CETC crew member.  He is the one Kit relies on everyday to drive and operate the main rig “Stella and the Woodsman” as well as the Bucket truck.  Bryan used to drive huge trucks for a living so nowadays driving CETC’s biggest truck (The Bucket Truck) is a walk in the park for this experienced truck driver.  Bryan will haul brush, dump the truck, park her in the shop, be on time every day in addition to being the newest PHC technician, handling Ash trunk injections and learning more about pest management and strategies to improve the living environment for each tree he comes in contact with.  Just recently, Bryan has also started climbing under the mentorship of Justin aka Steamy.

We also occasionally bring in other arborists when needed who have been a part of the CETC team over the past 5 years as needed.  These folks include Scott Parry, Greg Brown, Ian Serbus, Josh Galster, and a few others such as Luke and Ed from Mountainside Crane and Keith B.

When we get a choice in modes of transportation in our free time, we all pick a Harley or a big truck.