Tree Service in Maysville, NC

A job we did in Maysville

A $6,000 pine we could not put a machine under

A very large pine standing beside a metal garage, with a septic field running between the tree and the only approach a lift could have used. That combination settles the method before anyone picks up a saw: no machine goes over a drain field, and a metal roof is not something you drop wood onto and apologise for afterwards.

So it was climbed. Every section came down on rope, controlled, with the garage on one side and ground we had to stay off on the other.

The job came to $6,000. Worth saying plainly that the figure is about the obstacles and not the species — the same pine in the open, with room for a lift and nothing buried underneath, is a materially cheaper day.

Maysville, and what it does to trees

• Maysville is in Jones County, not Onslow — a detail that matters for permits and for who you call about a right-of-way. It sits in the southeastern corner of the county, with US-17 running through the middle of town, about 15 miles northeast of our shop in Jacksonville.

  Source: Maysville, North Carolina

• The town is settled on the banks of the White Oak River and bordered to the east by the Croatan National Forest — a 48-mile blackwater river that forms the forest's western boundary, and the only truly coastal national forest in the eastern United States.

  Source: White Oak River

• In our experience that forest edge is the thing that shapes the work here. Trees that grew up in a stand are drawn tall and narrow with the live crown high on the stem, and when the lot around one is cleared for a house it is suddenly carrying wind it never had to carry before.

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