It's down, nobody got hurt, and now there's a sixty-foot tree across your driveway. The hard part is over — this part is just work.
A fallen tree is the least frightening job on this list and the one homeowners most often try to handle themselves. That combination is exactly why it's worth a word of caution first.
A tree on the ground is still under load. A trunk bridging a ditch is bending. A limb pinned under the canopy is compressed like a spring. A top caught against a fence is holding tension it has nowhere to release. Cut into any of those in the wrong place and it doesn't settle gently — it moves, fast, usually toward whoever is holding the saw.
Professionals have specific names for these: spring poles, compression and tension sides, barber chairs. They exist because the failures are common enough to need names. More homeowners are hurt cutting up a tree that already fell than are hurt by trees falling.
The good news is the pricing. The expensive, technical part of tree work is getting a standing tree safely to the ground. Yours is already there. A fallen tree is usually a considerably cheaper job than removing the same tree standing — it's mostly cutting, loading and hauling.
Most fallen trees are across something inconvenient rather than something expensive. All of it gets cleared.
Blocking your cars in is the most common one, and usually the most urgent non-emergency we get.
Bent trunks and pinned limbs released in a controlled order instead of all at once.
Down across a fence line, in a pasture, or out in a field where the ground is soft.
Bucked into rounds and taken away — or stacked for firewood if you'd rather keep it.
Price comes down to three things: how big it is, how far it is from where a truck can park, and what it's lying on. A big oak down in an open front yard is straightforward. The same oak in a back pasture, three hundred feet from the nearest access, costs more — not because the cutting is harder but because every piece has to be moved by hand or by machine across soft ground.
What it's resting on matters too. A tree lying in grass is simple. A tree across a fence means the fence has to be freed carefully rather than cut through, and a tree over a septic field or a flower bed means we're working around things that can't take a truck.
One of our customers had a massive tree come down in a storm on top of her trailers and fence. The thing she mentioned in her review was that everything buried under it was protected while the crew worked, and that her neighbor was happy with the result too. On a fallen tree, what's underneath it is usually the whole question.
And then there's the stump. A tree that blew over often takes its root plate with it, leaving a crater and a wall of roots standing on edge — which is a different job from grinding a cut stump. We'll price putting the ground back flat along with the removal so you know the whole number.
Fallen tree work is quoted up front and covers the clearing, not just the cutting.
Usually yes, often noticeably. The costly part of removing a standing tree is getting it safely to the ground — the climbing, rigging and controlled lowering. That's already happened. What's left is cutting, loading and hauling, which is work but not technical risk.
You can, and plenty of people do, but understand what you're dealing with. A down tree is full of stored tension — trunks bent over obstacles, limbs pinned under the canopy, tops braced against fences. Cut the wrong side first and it releases violently. If any part of it is bent, pinned or suspended, that's the part to leave alone.
Generally, once it's on your property it's yours to deal with — though that changes if the tree was visibly dead or damaged beforehand and your neighbor knew. We're not attorneys and won't advise you on it. What we will do is give you a written estimate you can show anybody, and work with both parties if the tree is across a line.
Absolutely, and say so when you get your estimate. We'll buck it into rounds at whatever length you want and stack it where you'd like it. Leaving the wood usually takes something off the price since there's less to haul.
A wind-thrown tree often lifts its whole root plate, leaving a vertical wall of roots and soil plus a hole where it came out. That's a different job from grinding a cut stump — it usually means cutting the plate free, laying it back into the hole, and raking the ground flat. We price it with the removal so there's no surprise.
That's one we try to move fast on even though it isn't strictly an emergency — being unable to get a vehicle out matters. Call and tell us it's blocking access and we'll fit it in as soon as we can.
From the first phone call to the last limb hauled off, here's exactly what to expect.
Call or text 478-972-8036. Send a photo of the tree and JC can usually tell you right there what it will take.
JC walks the job, checks what's above it and what's under it, and gives you a straight price in writing. Free, no obligation.
The crew brings the right gear for the tree and the space it's in — and we work it down in a way that protects what's around it.
Every limb, every round, every bit of debris hauled off. The job isn't finished until the yard looks like we were never there.
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