Tree Removal in Mauriceville, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Mauriceville, TX

Out here the trees that need to come down are usually the ones somebody's grandparents planted or left standing on purpose. A homestead on twenty or forty acres in north Orange County has a ring of big trees around it, water oak and pecan and the odd live oak, and after enough decades and enough hurricanes one of them is dead, one is hollow and one is leaning at the house. The rest of the tract has closed in with tallow and yaupon behind them. We take down, top, reduce and haul off trees across Mauriceville and the surrounding country, with climbers for the ones over a roof or boxed in by a barn and a propane tank. Free on-site estimate, and the owner who quotes it runs the crew.

Mauriceville is family acreage held for generations, and the trees follow that pattern. The house sits on the highest, driest spot the original owner could find, and the trees around it were chosen for shade, which means they were let get big and they were let get close. Water oak is the common one, and water oak is the tree that looks fine from the porch while it rots from the heart out. Pecan is the other, and an old pecan that was never pruned has wide crotches that hold water and split under a limb load. Neither is a felling job when the house, the well head and the septic field are all within the fall zone. The storms have done a lot of the selecting. Rita and Ike each pushed through this corner of Orange County with enough wind to take the crowns out of pines and hang water oak limbs in the trees next to them, and Harvey and then Imelda soaked the ground for so long that root plates on the low side of tracts simply let go. A good many tracts here still carry trees from those storms that are half down, hung up in a neighbor, or standing with a lean they did not have before. Nobody walks the back of a forty-acre tract every month, so those trees get found when a fence goes down or a cow comes home the wrong way. The ground is the heavy Gulf Coast clay that drains toward Cow Bayou and on to the Neches and the Sabine, and since Harvey it drains slower than it used to. That matters for tree work because the truck, the trailer and the excavator have to reach the tree, and a drive that crosses a silted ditch on an old culvert is the first thing we look at. Running loaded across a wet pasture out here ruts it into something that will not grow grass, so on the soft side of the year we plan the route or we wait.

Homestead trees get climbed. A climber goes up the water oak, rigs each limb and lowers it on a rope to a spot where it does no harm, then brings the trunk down in sections small enough to handle on the ground. The excavator with a thumb feeds the trailer and, if you want the stump gone, pulls or grinds it after the tree is out. On the open parts of a tract the same tree can be pushed over with the root plate attached, which on ground being reclaimed for pasture is the cleaner answer since the stump leaves with the tree. Grinding versus pulling is a separate decision and it is covered on our stump removal page. Storm trees come first when the phone rings after a hurricane, and we say where you are in the line rather than promising a time. Two rules hold on every storm call. A tree on, in or near a power line belongs to the utility until they have made the line safe, and nobody from our crew or your family touches it before then. And a tree that is bent over, hung in another tree, or lying with a bowed trunk is holding tension that a wrong cut releases in an instant. On a tract where the nearest neighbor is out of earshot, that is not a chainsaw job for one person on a Saturday. Everything we cut leaves on the trailer unless you want the firewood bucked and left, and where a tree job opens onto a fence line full of tallow, the same crew can keep going into a full clearing or a grading job without a second mobilization.