Tree Removal in Vidor, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Vidor, TX

Vidor sits low between the Neches and the Sabine, and the trees here have been through as much water as any trees we work. A good share of our tree calls in Vidor are not about wind damage at all. They are about what standing floodwater did to the roots a few storms ago and what the tree has been doing since. Nine miles from Beaumont means we are on your property rather than on the road, and it means we know this ground: soft, flat, and draining into a ditch system your neighbors share.

Harvey is the event that still shapes tree work in Vidor. Water sat in yards and across the low ground toward the Neches bottom for long enough that roots drowned, and Imelda came through afterward and did it again. Rita had already been through. A water oak or a sweetgum that stood in that water can look fine the following spring and then start thinning at the top, dropping large dead limbs, or leaning as a softened root plate gives on one side. Those are the trees Vidor calls us about now, and they are more dangerous than they look, because a tree failing from the roots comes over without the warning a dying crown gives. The ground is the second thing. Vidor is flat, the clay is saturated for weeks after an ordinary rain, and a loaded truck across a yard here sinks rather than ruts. Getting to the tree is part of the estimate: which side of the house the excavator can reach, and whether the honest answer is to wait for the yard to firm up. Off the farm-to-market roads the acreage runs back down long private drives with a culvert at the front, and before we schedule anything out there we check that the truck and trailer can make it down the drive and back out loaded. The third is the ditches. Drainage in this part of Orange County is shared, silted and slow, and dropping a tree into a roadside ditch or leaving brush in a drainage line is how one property's tree job becomes the neighbor's flooding problem. We pick drop zones that keep the ditches clear and we take the brush out with the wood. Chinese tallow thrives on this wet ground and every fence line in Vidor has a row of it; taking tallow out is usually the start of a fence line or pasture job rather than the end of it.

On the tree itself the site decides the method. A leaning water oak in a back pasture off a county road can be felled or pushed over with the root plate on, which is the cleaner answer on ground that is being cleared anyway. A tree over a house, a shop or a propane tank in town gets a climber, who takes the crown apart piece by piece on a rope and brings the trunk down in sections. Dead limbs from a drowned root system are brittle and will not hold a climber's weight the way live wood does, so those trees get rigged from anchor points that will hold and not from the limb that looks convenient. Wood and brush go on the trailer and off the property. Stump grinding is available with the removal, and on a lot where a pad is going up the stump usually gets pulled instead; our stump removal page covers which one fits. Topping is a common request in Vidor, usually on a tree that has gotten taller than the owner is comfortable with after watching what the last storm did. We will top it if that is what you want, and we will also show you the crown reduction option, which brings the height down by cutting to lateral limbs so the tree keeps its structure instead of growing back a head of weak shoots that the next hurricane takes off. On storm calls the phone is answered around the clock and damaged trees are first in line. Any tree on or near a line is the utility's job to make safe before ours, and any storm tree that is bowed, hung up or loaded is not something to put a homeowner's saw into. Hardwood that comes off a Vidor job goes into our firewood: mixed hardwood, seasoned or green, delivered within the service area and quoted per load by phone.