Welcome

 

Sand Lake Tree LLC, started in 2001, for tree removal, tree debris cleanup, stump grinding and difficult tree removals.

Andrew Murray, company owner, has over 25 years of experience with trees and while other groups and organizations are using outdated techniques for planting trees and caring for trees, Andrew has been removing the trees that have been planted and cared for incorrectly. It is this reverse engineering of how to plant correctly and what trees to actually plant, makes Andrew one of the most valuable partners for helping plan your shelter belt or other tree plantings.

Sand Lake Tree LLC is only one of many groups that can help you plan your tree plantings, so the next generation can enjoy and you can protect the land and wildlife at the same time. Let’s remove trees in a responsible way and actually use the tree fiber instead of burning in big piles. The air pollution is bad enough but the wasted heat could heat thousands of buildings and the wood could be used to build thousands of different things.

We work in South Dakota and North Dakota in a 100 hundred mile radius from Columbia, South Dakota and if needed we may travel farther and even into Minnesota. We do ditch right-of-way tree removals and remove shelter belts in a responsible way. We can work by the hour or by a written bid. As our customer base and our customer requirements change, Sand Lake Tree LLC will add the necessary equipment and man power.

Our new Grapple Saw

We have another tools for cutting trees up. 
 
NEW! We have a tree shear! No saw chains to sharpen, no saw refueling, no saws broke down, safe inside a machine cab and the shear can hold, cut and move the tree to a safe place. Nice working along fence lines or even sucker growth trees near buildings.
 
 With our grapple/chainsaw bucket, we tip over whole trees a lot and now we can cut them up for moving and further processing using our skid steer. It will be so much safer and convenient.
No tripping around inside a tree to cut it up, no running out of gas half inside a tree cutting it up and the ability to be inside the cab of the machine and cut up to and possibly more that 30 inches.
 
Cleaning up shelter belts, trees that are down can be cut up and moved faster and doing Right-of-Way work will be easier, just tipping trees into the road, they can be cut up and moved off the road faster and now with the tree shear, safer and faster than ever!
 
 
 
 
 
 

While to the average customer it does not matter, in the legal system semantics actually do matter. Sand Lake Tree LLC is not a logging company or a tree service, as it is filed with the Secretary of State in South Dakota, Sand Lake Tree LLC does whole and partial tree harvesting and stump cultivating. All of what the company does, is not done in a forest.  When the trees are harvested, we convert the fiber (trees) into firewood, lumber/beams/boards, wood chips or store on site or leave on the customers property for them to store and use. If the customer does not want the fiber, our company buys it for a small payment – the value is low and equipment and marketing the new fiber/product to customers is expensive. Sand Lake Tree LLC is harvesting an agriculture product, because we are not harvesting in a forest. We would like to some day make powdered cellulose, it is made from refined wood pulp.

7 USC 6502: Definitions Text contains those laws in effect on July 14, 2026, From Title 7-AGRICULTURECHAPTER 94-ORGANIC CERTIFICATION
ยง6502. Definitions As used in this chapter: (1) Agricultural product: The term “agricultural product” means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock that is marketed in the United States for human or livestock consumption.