Tree Removal in Winnie, TX

Tree Removal & Trimming Services in Winnie, TX

Winnie is prairie, not woods, and a tree here stands by itself. The oaks and pecans around an old rice-farm homestead were planted for shade on ground that had none, and they have spent their whole lives taking Gulf Coast wind with no other trees to share it. When one of them fails it fails toward the house, because the house is the only thing near it. We take down, top, reduce and haul off trees across Winnie and the surrounding prairie on both sides of the Chambers and Jefferson County line, from the lone live oak over a farmhouse to the tallow that has walled off a field ditch. Free on-site estimate, owner on every job.

On the prairie the trees fall into two groups, and they could not be more different. The first is the homestead trees: live oak, pecan and water oak planted in a windbreak row along the north side of a farmhouse or a barn. These are the biggest trees for miles because they are the only ones, they have grown one-sided leaning away from the prevailing wind, and their root plates sit in flat clay that Imelda and Harvey before it left underwater for days. A live oak with a soaked root plate and a full crown in a hurricane wind goes over, and it takes the fence, the shop or the power drop with it. The second group is Chinese tallow. Tallow does not need planting; it follows the water, and out here the water runs in levees, laterals, canals and field ditches laid out over generations of rice farming. Every one of those lines is now a tallow hedge, thick enough on a fence line to hide the fence, and Imelda and Harvey both spread the seed further. Tallow is soft, it splits and drops limbs in any decent wind, and a tallow that has been let grow into a real tree over a barn or a shed is a removal, not a trim. Getting to a tree is easier here than in the timber country north of Beaumont. Interstate 10 and Highway 73 cross the prairie, the county roads are good, and the ground is open. The catch is the crossings. A drive that reaches a homestead over a field ditch on an old culvert has to carry the truck and trailer, and a tree on the far side of a canal is a tree we reach on foot with ropes if the crossing will not take the machine.

A homestead oak over a farmhouse comes down from the top, the same way it would in town. The climber goes up, rigs each limb and lowers it away from the roof, then brings the trunk down in sections. With a windbreak row the job is usually a mix: the leaners and the dead ones out, the sound ones reduced back to a lateral limb so they stay short enough to stand up to the wind without the wall of weak shoots a topped tree grows. We will top a tree if that is what you want; we just say plainly which trees it suits and which it does not. Tallow along a ditch or a fence line is excavator work rather than climbing work, pushed over with the roots on and loaded straight onto the trailer, and where that turns into clearing a whole field edge or reclaiming rice ground for pasture, the same crew and machines carry on without a second trip. Storm work on the prairie has a particular shape. There is nothing to catch a falling tree, so the trees that come down come all the way down, usually across a fence, a drive or a shop roof, and the ones that do not are leaning at an angle with a lifted root plate and a bowed trunk. That leaning tree is under tension and is not something to take a chainsaw to; it can roll off its own root ball or spring back when a limb is cut, and after every hurricane on this coast someone gets hurt that way. A tree on or near a power line, and on a homestead that is usually the single drop coming in across the field, is the utility's job before anyone else's. Call them, then call us. After a storm the phone is answered around the clock, damaged trees go ahead of scheduled work, and we say where you stand in the line rather than promising an hour. The wood and brush leave on the trailer, or get bucked and left if you want them for the fire.