Tree Service in Austin, AR

Tree Service in Austin keeps up with a town that has grown faster than almost anywhere around it. Austin had 605 residents in 2000, 2,038 in 2010 and 3,460 in 2020. Most of that growth is new subdivisions on what was rural northern Lonoke County, next to Cabot on the southwest and Ward on the northeast. A new house on land that used to be woods or pasture comes with a particular set of tree questions.

Common questions on new lots

Which of these trees should stay? Builders often leave a few trees for shade. Some are good long-term keepers. Others are fast-growing, weak-wooded species, trees that were crowded in the woods and are now tall and thin, or trees whose roots were cut during grading. We walk the lot and tell you which is which.

Why is my tree dying two years after we moved in? Root damage from construction is the usual answer. Trenching for utilities, soil added over the root zone and compaction from trucks all take a toll that shows up slowly.

What about the tree line along the back? Woods at the edge of a new lot often hold dead and leaning trees that were never a concern until a fence and a house went up next to them.

A town that moved to the railroad

Austin started around 1872, when the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway laid tracks about a mile southeast of the original settlement. People moved toward the tracks, some taking whole buildings with them, and the new place was first called Austin Station. The older community became Old Austin. The town was incorporated in 1895. Some of the older home sites near the original town hold much bigger, older trees than the new subdivisions do.

Rolling ground

Northern Lonoke County, where Austin sits along with Cabot, is rolling hill country at the edge of the Ozarks. Sloped backyards and drainage swales are common. They affect where equipment can go and where a tree can safely be dropped, so we check grades during the estimate.

Storm damage on open ground

New subdivisions rarely have the shelter of a mature canopy. Trees that once stood inside a woodlot now stand alone or in a thin strip, and they take wind and ice they never grew up with. After a storm, look for snapped tops, split trunks and hanging limbs in the tree line behind the house, and keep children away from them until they have been dealt with. Leave the details by phone any time and we will set an inspection. Snapped tops that stay lodged in a neighboring tree are especially dangerous to pull down without proper rigging.

What we offer here

• Lot evaluations: which trees to keep, prune or remove
• Removal of dead, damaged and leaning trees near new homes and fences
• Structural pruning of young trees so they grow strong
• Stump grinding for new lawn and landscape beds

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