Tree removal, pruning and storm work for Williamson County.
We take trees down, prune oaks without spreading oak wilt, clear cedar, grind stumps and answer storm calls 24/7, in Georgetown and the rest of Williamson County. An ISA Certified Arborist is on staff. Our insurance certificate is yours to read. The crew can tell a Heritage live oak from a volunteer hackberry, and knows which month each one may be cut.
Free estimate on site · Price in writing before any cutting · ISA Certified Arborist on staff · Insured for tree work
Built around live oaks, limestone and oak wilt season
Tree removal
Dead, failing, leaning or just in the way. We climb and rig it over the roof and the service drop, bring a crane when that's smarter, or fell it whole if there's room.
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Emergency & storm service
A pecan on the roof. A live oak limb across the drive. A hanger over the sidewalk after ice or a supercell. We answer at any hour and take the photos your insurer will ask for.
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Crane tree removal
Big pecans and oaks lifted over the roof in one morning. The alternative is two days of rigging above your pool.
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Tree trimming & pruning
Crowns cleaned, deadwood out, structure set. Roofs, wires and driveways cleared. Every cut at the collar, oak cuts painted, no topping.
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Live oak & post oak care
These two shade most Georgetown roofs. We prune them on the oak wilt calendar, thin them for ice, and leave them be when that is the better call.
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Oak wilt evaluation
Veins turning brown. A red oak dead inside a month. An infection center 75 feet away next door. We diagnose it honestly and lay out the trenching and injection options.
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Cedar & lot clearing
Ashe juniper thickets mulched off Hill Country land for a build, a barn, a view or pasture. Live oaks get flagged and stay.
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Stump grinding
Ground 8–12 inches down where the limestone lets us. Roots followed, chips raked, hole backfilled. Texas 811 gets the first call.
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Ball moss & mistletoe
Sun City's two most common requests. Ball moss cleared from inside live oaks. Mistletoe cut back to the branch.
Moss and mistletoe →From first call to a raked yard
You call or fill in the form
Leaning live oak, dead post oak, stump in the way, cedar lot to clear. Tell us. Someone answers at any hour.
We come and look, free
The arborist checks the tree, the access and whatever sits under it: house, pool, fence, service drop. Measures it. Then says plainly whether to prune, cable, remove or leave it.
You get the price on paper
Itemized and held for 30 days. Removal, rigging or crane, hauling, stump and any city or HOA paperwork each get their own line.
We finish and clean up
Most jobs take one day. Wood chipped. Debris hauled. Lawn raked. Driveway blown clean. Stump grinding booked if you want it.
The four species behind most of our calls
Live oak
Georgetown grew up around it. It keeps its leaves all winter, so it holds every bit of ice. Long, flat leaders split at old included-bark forks. Its roots graft to the next live oak over, and oak wilt rides those grafts. We keep it with end-weight reduction and cables, and prune it only July through January.
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Post oak
Tough, slow, and no tolerance for insult. Root damage, fill dirt and the dry summers of 2011 and 2022–23 all kill it. Decline starts at the top, two or three years later. Dead, the wood turns dangerously brittle. Over a roof, a dead one comes down by bucket truck or crane. Nobody climbs it.
What kills post oaks →Cedar elm
Planted in every 1990s subdivision because it grew fast. Now it's the tree we most often clear out of the street after a thunderstorm. Weak wood, tight forks, mistletoe up top. Keep it while it's young and pruned. Take it down once a leader splits.
Removal and prices →Ashe juniper ("cedar")
Native, yet it spreads like an invader, and it's the reason January brings cedar fever. It crowds live oaks, blocks views and burns hot. The code protects it at no size, so on a Hill Country build, clearing it is the simple part.
Cedar clearing →Three numbers settle most permit questions
UDC Chapter 8 was rewritten in September 2025, under Ordinance 2025-54. On a house lot, three numbers usually decide it. We measure the trunk at 4½ feet and pull your plat before we quote.
Heritage Tree: permit on any lot
Pecan, walnut, live oak, post oak, bur, Shumard, Monterey or chinquapin oak, elm, bald cypress, Texas ash, magnolia. At 26 inches or more across, removal takes a Tree Removal Permit anywhere in the city or the ETJ. Mitigation is 3 inches planted or paid for each inch taken out. Cutting off over 30% of the crown counts as a removal.
Protected Tree: commercial land only
Most other trees of 12 inches and up count as Protected on commercial and multifamily property, and need approval there. Hackberry, cedar, chinaberry, tallow and mesquite are left off that list. On a single-family lot, a Protected tree that isn't Heritage is yours to remove.
Older plats are exempt
Residential lots platted before February 13, 2007 fall outside Section 8.02 completely. A tree a certified arborist confirms is dead or fatally diseased owes no mitigation. After a declared storm, the Planning Director can waive the rules for hazardous trees.
I-35 splits Georgetown into two kinds of ground
The Balcones Escarpment crosses Williamson County, roughly following I-35. Trees act differently on each side of it.
West of the line, a few inches of caliche cover Edwards limestone. That's Sun City, Berry Creek and Wolf Ranch, out to Liberty Hill and Andice. Live oaks and post oaks spread shallow roots across the rock. Cedar fills every gap. A soaked week, then a windy front, and whole root plates pry up out of the stone.
East of the line is Blackland Prairie clay: Old Town and San Gabriel Park, then out through Hutto, Taylor and Walburg. It shrinks in August and swells in October. Feeder roots snap. Sidewalks heave. Price a job without knowing which side the tree is on, and you've priced the wrong job.
Then the calendar. Oak wilt is active in the county, so oaks get no pruning from February through June. The disease travels about 75 feet a year through live oak root grafts. Ice arrives every few winters: February 2021 left 30,000 cubic yards of debris on Georgetown curbs, and 2023 left nearly 120,000. Spring supercells gave us the 2022 Round Rock tornado. Late-summer drought killed post oaks across the county in 2011, and again in 2022–23. Each has a right response and a wrong one.
Ours: inspect before selling anything. Prune oaks only in the safe months, and paint each cut. Cable a live oak worth saving. Measure and check the plat rather than guess at Chapter 8. Call 811 before grinding. Keep out of the ten feet around Georgetown Utility Systems lines, as GUS and OSHA say to. We're here all year, so when the ice melts, we're the ones who answer. Not the out-of-state trucks that show up for two weeks and then disappear.
Old Town and the square, out to Sun City, Wolf Ranch and Teravista
Our trucks are in Georgetown daily. The streets around the courthouse square and Southwestern University date from the 1900s to the 1940s. Old Town and San Gabriel Park have the big-oak lots. Ranch-house neighborhoods line Williams Drive and Austin Avenue. Sun City covers 4,750 acres. Newer subdivisions include Teravista, Wolf Ranch, Rancho Sienna, Berry Creek, Santa Rita Ranch, Serenada and Parkside on the River.
Outside the city: Leander, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Hutto, Taylor, Liberty Hill, Andice, Jarrell, Florence, Weir and Walburg. That's all of Williamson County, plus the edges of Burnet, Bell and Travis.
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Five questions we hear every week
Will the city make me get a permit to take a tree down?
The tree decides, not the address. The rules sit in Chapter 8 of the Unified Development Code, rewritten by Ordinance 2025-54 in September 2025. Heritage Trees need a Tree Removal Permit on any lot, anywhere in the city or its ETJ. That covers pecan, walnut, live oak, post oak, bur, Shumard, Monterey or chinquapin oak, cedar or American elm, bald cypress, Texas ash and southern magnolia, once the trunk measures 26 inches or more across at 4½ feet. Protected Trees are most other species at 12 inches and up. They need a permit on commercial and multifamily land, but not on a single-family lot. Residential lots platted before February 13, 2007 are fully exempt. A dead or fatally diseased tree, confirmed by a certified arborist, owes no mitigation. Before any cutting, we measure, look up the plat date and tell you which group your tree falls in.
What will a tree removal cost me in Georgetown?
Across Williamson County, most removals come in between $450 and $4,500. The low end is a small ornamental, or a cedar standing in the open. The high end is a 60-foot pecan or live oak reaching over a limestone ranch house, a pool and the service drop, lowered piece by piece on ropes or lifted out by crane. Stump grinding is its own line, priced per inch. The itemized price is written on site, before anything is cut.
Which months are safe for pruning oaks?
July through January. February through June is off-limits. In those months fungal mats form on dying red oaks and sap beetles carry the spores around, so a fresh cut lets the disease in. Texas A&M Forest Service and the Williamson County Extension office give the same advice. Prune oaks in the cold months. Paint each cut the moment it's made, whatever the month. Sterilize tools from one tree to the next. We book oak pruning July to January, and we paint cuts all year, storm damage included.
The ice storm stripped big limbs off my live oak. Why?
Ice is heavy, and live oaks hold their leaves through winter. Half an inch of glaze puts roughly 7,000 extra pounds on the crown of a 30-inch live oak, on limbs shaped for heat, not weight. The storm of January 31 to February 2, 2023 left nearly 120,000 cubic yards of tree debris along Georgetown curbs. That's five to six times Winter Storm Uri's total in 2021. What broke: long, flat leaders heavy at the tips, and old unions with included bark. A live oak thinned at the ends and cabled at its weak forks holds ice. One that was topped, or not pruned for twenty years, does not.
If a tree comes down at 2 AM, will anyone pick up?
Yes. Every hour, every day. The Round Rock tornado of March 21, 2022 damaged 1,122 structures in Williamson County. The 2023 ice storm cut power to 3,700 Georgetown Utility Systems customers and filled streets with live-oak limbs. Spring supercells and summer straight-line winds arrive every year. With a pecan in your roof at 2 AM, the first hour counts. Call and tell us what happened. You get a callback with a plan and a time, not a voicemail box.