Tree Service in Scott, AR

Tree Service in Scott is mostly about old, big trees on open land. Scott is a census-designated place straddling Pulaski and Lonoke counties, bordered on the west by North Little Rock, and its landscape was made by the Arkansas River. The river left oxbow lakes such as Horseshoe Lake, which once was a river channel, along with deep, rich farmland. Pecans planted about 1900 still line Highway 161 near Land's End plantation.

Caring for big pecans

Pecans are common farmstead and yard trees in the bottoms, and they are long-lived but brittle. Large pecans tend to drop limbs, sometimes on calm summer days, and they split at narrow forks under ice or wind. For old pecans near homes, sheds or drives, we focus on: 1. Removing dead and hanging limbs that will fall on their own 2. Shortening the longest, heaviest horizontal limbs over structures 3. Checking the main forks for cracks and decay pockets 4. Raising low limbs where equipment or trucks pass

We do not top pecans. Heavy cuts open the trunk to decay that pecan wood handles poorly.

Soft ground and big equipment

The southern third of Lonoke County, which includes the Scott area, is alluvial Delta soil. It is productive farmland, but after rain it gets soft fast. We plan access around field roads and firm turf, and in wet stretches we may postpone non-urgent work rather than leave ruts across a yard or field edge. Low ground near oxbow lakes stays wet longest.

History you can still see

The area has deep roots. Plum Bayou culture people built the mound complex now preserved as Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park more than 1,000 years ago, and plantations such as Marlsgate on Bearskin Lake and Longbridge on Hills Lake date to the early 1900s. Many homes and outbuildings around Scott sit among trees that are a century old. Those trees deserve an inspection before anyone decides they have to go.

Live oaks, water oaks and willows by the water

Alongside the pecans, bottomland yards often hold big water oaks and willows near ponds and lake edges. Both grow fast in wet ground and both are prone to decay as they age. A water oak with a hollow trunk or fungus at the root flare near a house is a removal candidate, and a willow leaning over a dock or pond bank can drop without much warning once its roots soften.

How a visit works

We drive the property with you, note each tree and what it needs, and give you a written estimate. If some of the wood is worth keeping for firewood or for a sawmill, say so, and we will cut and stack it rather than chip it.

Storm work in open country

Open fields let wind build speed before it reaches a farmstead's tree line. When a storm sends a big tree onto a barn, a fence or a drive, the job is usually about safe cutting under tension and moving heavy wood. Call any time to leave details, and we will set a visit as soon as we can. For estimates, call (501) 457-9035. Get a free estimate