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Greenville yards were planted for shade fifty and sixty years ago, and the trees are now bigger than the houses. Loblolly pines that were saplings when the brick ranches in Lynndale and Brook Valley went up are sixty and seventy feet tall with root plates in sandy soil, and every hurricane season reminds the whole county what happens when one of them lets go. Water oaks and willow oaks planted in the same era are reaching the end of their lives and going hollow from the inside.
Cherry’s Tree Service takes these trees down for homeowners across Greenville, Winterville, Ayden, Farmville, and Wilson. Matthew Bryan does the estimate, does the cutting, and does the cleanup. He is fully insured, he has been felling trees in Pitt County since he was a teenager, and he gives you one price before the saw starts. Call or text (252) 814-8409 and send a photo of the tree.
Sixty foot pines, big oaks, and pecans with trunks you cannot get your arms around. These do not come down in one cut. Matthew works from the bucket truck where there is access, or climbs where there is not, taking the crown off limb by limb, then sectioning the trunk down in pieces the ground can take. Big trees in open yards are the most straightforward removals and price at the low end for their size. Big trees in tight spots are where experience matters, because every piece has a place it has to land. If your tree is the tallest thing on the block and you have started watching it in the wind, get a free estimate.
A dead pine sheds bark, then limbs, then the top. A dead oak stands for years looking sturdy and then splits at the fork. Dead trees are more dangerous to take down than live ones because the wood is brittle and does not hold a rope or a climber the way green wood does, so they need more rigging and more caution, not less. Signs you have one: no leaves when the neighbors’ trees are full, bark sloughing off, fungus shelves on the trunk, woodpecker holes in a line, or a lean that was not there last year. Matthew looks at these first when he comes out and will tell you honestly whether it can wait for a slower season or needs to come down now.
Most Greenville trees that need removing are close to something: a roof, a fence, a shed, a power drop, a neighbor’s car. This is rigging work. Each limb gets tied off, cut, and lowered on a rope to a spot on the ground that is not your air conditioner. Trunk sections come down the same way. It takes longer than dropping a tree in a field, and it costs more, and it is the only way to do it without a claim. Matthew has taken down pines and oaks between houses set fifteen feet apart with nothing touched but the tree.
Some trees have no safe way to rope them down: a huge trunk over a roof with no place to land the pieces, or a storm damaged tree already hung up on the house. For those jobs Matthew brings in a crane and lifts the sections straight up and over to the street. It is the most expensive way to remove a tree and the only right way for a handful of them. He will tell you on the estimate if your tree is one, and why.
See the answers below for cost, permits, trees near the house, and what happens to the wood. Anything else, call or text (252) 814-8409.
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“Matthew came out quickly and was very professional. I had 3 stumps ground. Matthew did them quickly and left the areas clean and tidy. He also answered my questions on how to handle the areas now that the trees were gone. I would absolutely have Cherry's tree service back.”
Most removals Cherry's does run between $1,000 and $5,000. A small tree in an open yard with nothing under it is at the low end and can come in under $1,000. A sixty foot pine wedged between two houses with a power drop in the way, where every piece has to be roped down, is at the top. Size, what the tree is leaning over, how hard it is to get the truck in, and whether you want the stump ground are what move the number. The estimate is free and in person, so you get a real figure, not a guess.
For a tree on your own residential lot, usually not, but rules differ inside city limits, in some neighborhoods with covenants, and for trees in a street right of way or a protected buffer. Matthew will tell you if the tree you are pointing at is one that needs a call to the city first.
Yes. That is most of the work in Greenville. Trees near a house come down in pieces, top first, with each section roped and lowered instead of dropped. Where there is room the bucket truck does the high work; where there is not, Matthew climbs it.
Your choice. Everything hauled off is the normal job. If you want firewood, Matthew will buck the trunk into rounds and stack them where you want them, which can lower the price a little since there is less to haul.
Stump grinding is a separate line on the estimate so you can decide. Most people have it done the same day. See the stump grinding page for how it works.
Old stumps and fresh ones ground below grade so you can mow over them, plant, or build. Clean, quick, priced by the stump.
Learn moreLimbs off the roof, crowns thinned and raised, deadwood cut out. Trimming that keeps the tree and protects the house.
Learn moreFallen trees cut up and hauled, trees on the roof lifted off, and pre-season trimming so the next storm finds less to break. Any hour.
Learn moreCall (252) 814-8409 or request your free quote online. We serve Greenville and Pitt County.