Tree Removal in Kountze, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Kountze, TX

On a hunting tract outside Kountze the wrong tree coming down costs more than the right tree staying up. The white oaks and the water oaks that drop mast are the reason deer use the place, and a crew that shows up and takes out everything leaning or ugly along a lane can strip a tract of the thing the owner bought it for. So tree work here starts with what the tract is for. We take down, top and haul off trees across Kountze and the surrounding parts of Hardin County: the dead pine over the camp house, the storm-broken hardwood across the access road, the trees blocking a lane or a plot, and the leaners nobody has looked at since last season. Free on-site estimate, and the owner walks the tract with you.

This is the edge of the Big Thicket, and the trees are the mixed pine and hardwood the Thicket is known for rather than the tallow and yaupon that take over closer to the coast. Loblolly pine on the uplands, white oak, water oak and sweetgum in the draws, and along Village Creek and its tributaries the bottomland hardwoods that stay wet-footed most of the year. A great deal of this country has been through commercial forestry at least once, so many tracts carry even-aged pine from the last harvest with a few big hardwoods left standing where the loggers went around them. Hunting property is the dominant use, and it sets a different calendar. Owners are on their tracts in the fall and rarely between, which means the tree that snapped in a spring storm is found in October with a stand under it. Rita and Ike both took tops out of pine across this county, Harvey and then Imelda put Village Creek well out of its banks and softened the root plates in the bottoms, and every one of those left trees hung, leaning or standing dead on tracts that see people a few weekends a year. The ground is kinder to equipment than the Gulf Coast clay south of Lumberton. Sandy loam on the uplands carries the truck and the excavator more of the year, and a stump comes out of it without the fight it puts up in Beaumont clay. The bottoms are another matter, and so is the preserve. Big Thicket National Preserve is a scatter of units and corridors through this country rather than one block, a good many private tracts share a boundary with one, and knowing where that line runs before a tree on the edge of it comes down is not optional.

Around a camp house, a barn or a stand, a tree comes down the same way it does over a house in town: a climber takes it apart from the top and lowers the pieces on a rope. Out on the tract, where a dead pine has room to fall, it gets a felling cut and comes down in one, and where the excavator is already in for lane or plot work it can push a leaner over with the root plate on. Trees along a lane or a plot edge that just need to be shorter get reduced back to a lateral limb rather than topped, because a topped hardwood along a lane throws up a wall of shoots that closes the sight line it was cut to open. The wood goes on the trailer, or gets bucked and left at the camp for the fire if you want it, and a stump in a lane or a plot gets ground or pulled depending on what is going there; our stump removal page covers which. Storm trees on a tract have usually been hanging for a while by the time anyone sees them, and that makes them worse, not safer. A hardwood hung in a pine with a bowed trunk is under tension whether it went over last week or last spring, and cutting it in the wrong place releases that load in a moment. It is not a job for one person with a saw and no cell signal. Trees on or near a power line, including the line that feeds a camp house at the end of a long drive, are the utility's to make safe first, and we do not put a climber near a line that has not been cleared. After a storm the phone is answered around the clock and damaged trees go ahead of scheduled work. And because the same crew and machines cut lanes, clear plots and grade access roads, the tree work usually rolls straight into the rest of what the tract needs in the same trip.