Tree service in Paragould, Arkansas - with the price in writing

Why Paragould trees are different

Ridge trees on Delta weather

Paragould sits on Crowley's Ridge, the long wooded spine that rises out of the row-crop flats. The ridge grows real upland hardwood - white oak, red oak, hickory, sweetgum - on loose loess soil that storms can work a root plate out of. Put those tall crowns in front of Delta straight-line winds and you get this county's whole tree story: big shade worth keeping, and big failures when a dead limb or a leaning trunk gets ignored. Winter ice is the other half of that story, and an iced crown tends to drop its worst limbs in the thaw, so what to do while ice is still on the trees is worth reading before January. That same loess dries out fast when the rain quits in late summer, so a ridge oak can brown out in September and still be alive, and checking whether a browned-out tree is dead or dormant takes a thumbnail and one twig. Out past town the ridge hardwood still stands in woodlots that get sold for timber now and then, and cleaning up a wooded tract after the timber cut is clearing work that starts once the log trucks leave.

Plenty of calls here are about one limb, and what sits under it decides the job: a limb over the roof, the drive, or the wire is four different phone calls, and the wire one is not a tree job at all until the utility has been out.

That is the local judgment a crew here needs. Which sweetgums over Eight Mile Creek's ditch lines are shedding, which ash died standing years ago and cannot be climbed, which oak just needs weight off the house side, and which Bradford pear out front should come down before it splits. Work serves Paragould first, then Oak Grove Heights, Marmaduke, and Lafe up the ridge, and Brookland across the county line. The same judgment runs out to the yard's edge, where the decision is how far back to clear a brushy edge or fence line and which finish gets left behind.