Tree Service in Burgaw, NC
Burgaw is the Pender County seat and the only place in my area with a proper old town centre to it — blocks of houses that have been there long enough to have grown full-size shade trees over their roofs. Drive five minutes out past the town limits and it is farmland and woods again. Those two halves give me two completely different kinds of day.
5.0 from 34 Google reviews (Nov 2026)
In town: old trees, narrow lots
The trees on the in-town blocks are the oldest I work on anywhere in the county. They were planted, or left, when the houses were built, and nobody was thinking about what the crown would be doing a lifetime later. Now it is over the roof, over the neighbour's roof, and over the only drive anything on wheels can use.
A tree like that does not get felled; it gets taken apart. Every piece is cut small, roped and let down into a spot somebody has cleared first, and it takes most of a day. That is why a tree hard against a building prices in the $6,000–$8,000 band while an ordinary removal runs $1,500–$3,500.
Deadwood is the thing I would look at first
Big old hardwoods die back a limb at a time long before they die as a tree, and the grey stubs up in the top are easy to stop noticing from the ground. They are the pieces that come out in a thunderstorm and do roof damage out of all proportion to their size.
Taking the dead out of a healthy old tree is a trim, not a removal — from $400 where it can be reached on rope, from $800 where the lift has to be set up to get over the house. On a tree worth keeping it is the cheapest useful thing you can do.
The line into the house
On an older street the service drop runs from the pole to the house through whatever has grown up around it. I work around conductors; I do not work on them, and nobody should who is not the utility. If the drop has to come down for the job to be safe, you call the power company and we book around their visit. Easy to establish when I come and look; expensive to discover with a crew in the yard.
Stumps in a yard that has been a yard for fifty years
An old stump in town is usually beside something — a walk, a drive edge, a brick pier, a water line somebody put in decades ago. Grinding is $7 per inch of diameter with a $200 minimum, taken up to 12 inches below grade, and what I will do beside concrete is grind the wood and leave the slab alone. Lifted paving is a concrete man's job and I will say so rather than take your money for it.
Stump grinding, by the inch · Getting equipment into a back yard.
Out past the town limits
The other half of Burgaw work is the places with land around them, and they are the easy ones: somewhere to set the lift, somewhere to put the pieces, no neighbour's fence three feet away. Same price list, cheaper end of it. Either side of the line the phone is answered open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — and being inland is no protection from a hard wind. It is usually the oldest tree on the street that loses a limb.
Storm cleanup · Something already on the house · Rocky Point, the next run over.
Recent work from our crew
A few of my crew's jobs on mature shade trees growing close over a roof.
Burgaw questions I get asked
- Both, and they are two different jobs. An in-town lot is narrow, has a house either side, has one drive in, and carries some of the oldest trees around standing over all of it. Out past the town limits there is room to work and the price shows it.
- The tree yes, the line no. I do not touch a power conductor and neither should anyone who is not the utility — if the drop has to come down for the job to be safe, you call them and we fit around their schedule. Saying that up front is cheaper than finding it out on the day.
- A tree hard against a building sits in the $6,000–$8,000 band, because every piece is roped and let down rather than dropped. The same tree with thirty feet of clear ground round it is a different number — $1,500–$3,500 covers most removals. Access is the price.
- Usually, and the tight ones are worth looking at before you book. Grinding is $7 per inch of diameter, $200 minimum, taken up to 12 inches below grade. Where a root has lifted concrete I grind what is in the ground and leave the slab to a concrete man — that is not my trade and I will not pretend it is.
Send me a photo of the tree and the drive
On an in-town lot the way in matters as much as the tree does, so show me both and I can usually tell you where it lands. I'd love to be your tree guy.