Tree Removal in Lumberton, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Lumberton, TX

Lumberton grew by putting houses into pine woods, and the pines were there first. The usual call from here is a lot that was opened just wide enough for the house and the drive, with a ring of tall loblolly and slash pine left standing close in, and one of them has started to lean, or shed big limbs, or simply stand too tall over the roof for anyone to sleep well in a hurricane. Thirteen miles up Highway 69 puts Lumberton in the middle of our service area, and the ground here is different enough from Beaumont that we work it differently.

This is where the coastal prairie turns into Piney Woods. The soil picks up sand, the timber shifts to loblolly and slash pine over a hardwood understory of sweetgum, water oak and yaupon, and the Big Thicket starts north and east of town. For tree work that means two things. Pines here grow tall and straight with the weight high up, so when one uproots in saturated ground or snaps in a gust it comes a long way down, and on a lot it comes down on something. And the sandier ground carries equipment better than Beaumont clay, so there are more days in the year we can get a truck to the tree without wrecking the yard. Most of the trees we take down in Lumberton are on residential lots that were carved out of timber. The builder cleared a footprint and a drive and left the rest standing, because buyers want the woods. Then the house went up, the root zones of the nearest pines were driven over and cut through for the slab and the utilities, and a few seasons later those trees are in trouble. A pine leaning toward a roof, a pine with a dead top, a pine that lost its neighbors in the clearing and is now taking wind it never took before: those are the calls. On the acreage out toward Village Creek and down toward Pine Island Bayou the work is bigger and simpler, with room to fell, and it usually turns into opening a homesite or reclaiming pasture rather than stopping at one tree. Hurricanes are the other reason. Rita, Ike, Harvey and Laura all put pine across roofs and driveways through Hardin County, and pine does not fail the way a hardwood does. It snaps partway up and leaves a hung top, or it heaves a root plate and lies with the trunk bowed under its own weight. Both are tension jobs, both are dangerous for someone with a chainsaw and no rigging, and after every storm someone in the pine country finds that out.

A pine over a house on a Lumberton lot is a climber job, because there is no direction to fell it that does not end on the house, the fence or the neighbor's pines. The climber goes up, takes the crown out in pieces on a rope, and brings the trunk down in sections the ground crew can load as they come. On open ground out in the county the same tree gets felled, or if the land is being cleared anyway, pushed over with the excavator so the root plate comes with it. Wood and brush are hauled off. Pine does not go into our firewood; it goes to mulch, and the hardwood off a Lumberton job, the sweetgum and water oak from the understory, is what becomes mixed hardwood firewood, seasoned or green, delivered in the service area and quoted per load. Stump grinding is available with the removal, and on a lot the stump gets ground; where a pad or a pasture is going in it gets pulled, which is covered on our stump removal page. Topping comes up on the pines and on the hardwoods, and for different reasons. On a pine, the top is where the tree is, and cutting it off leaves a pole that dies or grows a crooked head; if a pine is too tall for where it stands, the honest choices are to leave it or to take it down. On a water oak or a pecan by the house, we will top it if that is what you want, and we will show you where crown reduction, cutting back to a lateral limb, keeps the tree lower without the weak regrowth. Because Lumberton is a commuter town and the owners are usually at work in Beaumont or Port Arthur, we work off a written scope agreed at the estimate and we do not improvise on somebody's trees. On storm calls the phone is answered around the clock and damaged trees go first. A tree on or near a power line waits for the utility, every time, and we do not promise arrival times.