Tree Removal in Silsbee, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Silsbee, TX

Silsbee is where the coastal plain gives up and the pines start, and the tree work changes with it. Instead of a spreading water oak in a yard, the tree over the house here is a loblolly or a slash pine taller than anything else on the street, bare of limbs for most of its height, seeded in close and never thinned. Straight pine falls hard and it falls the full length, so a pine that has grown up next to a house in one of the older neighborhoods off Highway 96 is not something anyone can drop. We take down, top and haul off trees across Silsbee and the surrounding parts of Hardin County, with climbers for the pines and the hardwoods that a machine cannot reach. Free on-site estimate, owner on the job.

This is a mill town, and the country around it has been growing and cutting pine for well over a century. The Kirby operations laid out the town and the tracts around it, and the legacy in the trees is plantation pine in rows, even-aged stands from the last harvest, and volunteer pine that came up thick on cut-over ground and was never thinned. Pine that grows crowded grows tall and thin with a small crown at the top, and that shape is exactly the one the wind takes. Rita sheared the tops out of stands across this part of the county, Ike did it again, and the pines that survived both are now bigger, older and still standing over the same houses. Pine beetle kills add to it. A pine that goes from green to red in a single summer is dead, the top starts dropping limbs within months, and a dead pine over a roof or a driveway is a removal that should not wait for the next front. Sweetgum and water oak fill in the hardwood side around town, and along Village Creek the bottomland hardwoods get big, lean toward the water and stand in ground that stays wet long after the uplands have dried. The uplands here are the sandier soil of the edge of the Big Thicket rather than the Gulf Coast clay south of Lumberton, which is good news for tree work: the truck and the trailer can usually get to the tree more of the year, and a stump comes out of sandy loam a good deal easier than out of Beaumont clay. The exception is the creek bottom. Village Creek runs south from here to the Neches, Harvey and then Imelda put it well out of its banks, and a tree on the bank of a slough is often a tree we reach on foot with a rope and leave the machine on high ground.

A tall pine over a house comes down from the top. The climber goes up, cuts the crown out in a piece that can be lowered on a rope, then takes the trunk down in sections that get dropped into a cleared zone or lowered where there is nothing below to land on. The excavator picks up the logs and feeds the trailer, and if you want the stump ground it happens once the tree is out; on a lot that is going to be built on, the stump is usually pulled instead, which is covered on our stump removal page. Where a pine has room to fall, on the edge of a tract or along a lane, it gets a felling cut and comes down in one piece, and on ground that is being cleared anyway the excavator pushes it over with the root plate attached. Storm work in pine country is about hangers and snapped tops. A pine that broke partway up and left the top hanging in the next tree over is under tension, and so is a hardwood that bowed over a fence and stayed there. The wrong cut on either one releases that load faster than anyone can move, and every hurricane season somebody in this county finds that out with a chainsaw. Leave the bowed and hung trees for the crew. A tree on or near a power line is the utility's to make safe first, and we will not put a climber near a line the utility has not cleared. After a storm the phone is answered around the clock, damaged trees go ahead of scheduled work, and we tell you where you are in the line rather than naming a time. Everything cut leaves on the trailer, or gets bucked and left if you want the firewood.