Poole's Tree Experts (864) 876-1518
A climber in a helmet working along a big limb high above a house roof

Taken down from the top.

Tree removal, pruning, stump removal, lot clearing and grading, from Cook Road in Gray Court.

A tree over a house comes down the way it grew, only backwards. Crown first, then the trunk in pieces, then the stump. This page runs in the same order.

Pruning before the limb decides

A dead limb over a roof is easier to take off on a calm day than after a storm drops it.

Pruning also lifts low branches off the house, the driveway and the power drop to the house.

A climber on ropes and harness partway up a tall trunk
Climbing on rope reaches limbs a ladder never will.
A worker in a raised bucket cutting limbs from a street tree beside brick houses
Bucket work on a street tree, limbs taken back from the houses.
A climber sitting in the crown of a large tree cutting a branch
Deadwood comes out of the crown first.
A climber in orange pruning a tree in front of a brick row house
Close to a wall, every cut is planned before it is made.
A climber high in an oak beside a brick house, with cut limbs on the lawn below
Limbs over a roofline, cut and lowered.

Removal, one piece at a time

Most trees near a house can't be dropped whole. They come down in sections, top first, each piece cut to land where there is room for it.

Leaning toward the house, split at the trunk, or already down after a storm? Say so when you call. It changes the plan.

A climber near the top of a bare trunk as a cut section falls away against blue sky
A cut section falls clear of the climber's line.
A climber near the top of a tall pine against a cloudy sky
Tall pines get topped before the trunk comes down.
A climber with a chainsaw cutting through a tall trunk as sawdust sprays
The last tall piece of trunk, cut from the climbing line.
A large tree split and broken in a yard, with cut rounds on the ground
A split trunk is cut down to safe pieces first.
An uprooted tree on a lawn, partly cut into rounds with limbs piled beside it
An uprooted tree, partly cut into rounds.

What happens on the ground

Once the wood is down it gets bucked into rounds and the brush is cut to size.

Tell us on the phone what you want done with the wood and the brush.

A worker in orange chainsaw gear and a face screen bucking a trunk
Bucking the trunk into rounds.
A worker in ear defenders feeding brush into a wood chipper
Brush going into the chipper.
Long trunk sections laid out across a lawn with trees behind
Trunk sections laid out on the lawn before cleanup.
Gloved hands running a chainsaw through a pile of brush
Limbs cut down to chipper size.
The cut ends of a stack of fresh hardwood logs
Fresh-cut rounds, stacked.

The stump, ground out below the grass

A stump grinder chews the stump into chips below the surface. The spot can then be filled, seeded or built over.

Old stumps from trees cut years ago grind out the same way.

A large old tree stump in a grassy yard between houses
A stump left from an old removal.
A worker in ear defenders running a stump grinder on a front lawn beside a white house
A stump grinder working a front-yard stump.

Clearing and grading a lot

Bought land to build on, or a fence line that has gone back to woods? Lot clearing takes out the trees and brush.

Grading then shapes the dirt so the ground sheds water where it should.

A wooded tract cleared to the ground with standing trees left at the edge
Woods cleared to the ground, with a line of trees left standing.
A yellow crawler dozer on bare graded dirt
A dozer pushing and leveling dirt.
A backhoe loader working open ground at the edge of a field
Open ground after clearing.

Call about the tree

(864) 876-1518
1268 Cook Rd
Gray Court, SC 29645

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A photo of the tree helps. So does knowing what is under it: a roof, a fence, power lines, a septic field.

Call (864) 876-1518