Tree Service in Irvington, AL

Tree Service in Irvington often starts with land that used to be farmed. In the early 20th century Irvington was a farming community and the center of a profitable tung oil industry, with tung trees grown for the oil pressed from their seeds. The orchards are long gone, but the farm pattern remains: large tracts along U.S. 90, fence rows that have grown into lines of trees, and fields where pines and hardwoods came back once nobody was mowing. Many homes here sit on that kind of land.

Old fence rows and volunteer trees

Trees that sprout along a fence line grow crowded, lean toward the light and often swallow the wire. When owners want to clear a fence row or open up a lot, we take out the volunteer trees, grind or cut the stumps, and chip the brush. Wire embedded in a trunk is a real hazard to chains and grinder teeth. Tell us about any old fencing you know of, and we will cut around it.

Invasive trees worth removing

Chinese tallow (popcorn tree) and other invasives fill in old farm ground across coastal Alabama. Dauphin Island's maritime-forest guidance, for example, urges residents to remove tallow trees, air potato vine and cogongrass. Tallow trees spread fast from seed and shade out native pines and oaks. Removing them before they set seed, and treating the stumps so they do not resprout, keeps a lot from turning into a tallow thicket. We can mark which trees are tallow during the estimate. Many owners do not realize how many they have.

Storm exposure in south county

Irvington sits about 131 feet above sea level, north of Bayou La Batre and east of St. Elmo. In the National Weather Service's account of the December 25, 2012 tornado, the first warnings and the spotter-confirmed touchdown came in southern Mobile County, including the Irvington and Theodore area, before the tornado tracked toward I-10 and Mobile. Hurricanes come ashore just to the south along the Mississippi Sound. On rural lots, the trees that need attention first are the ones that can reach the house, the driveway, outbuildings and the service line. Trees in the back woods can usually wait.

How a rural job is quoted

• We walk the property with you and mark trees and areas on a sketch
• Each tree or area gets its own line on the written quote
• You choose whether wood is hauled, stacked or left to rot in the woods
• Access matters: tell us about gates, soft ground and septic fields

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