Whereabouts in Hampstead are you based?

532 McClammy Rd, Hampstead, NC 28443. I live here, so a Hampstead job is not a drive for me and the equipment is already in the county.

Do you work in the older golf-course neighborhoods?

Yes, and they are most of what I do here. Olde Point, Castle Bay and Belvedere Plantation were built in woods that were already mature, so the trees are tall, close to the houses, and almost nothing in them can simply be felled.

My lot backs onto the sound. How close to the water can you work?

As close as the ground will carry a machine, and no closer. The last stretch before the marsh is soft, so that end gets worked from the firm lawn side or climbed instead. I walk it with you before I quote, so nobody is surprised by where the tractor stops.

What is the most common tree job in Hampstead?

A loblolly pine leaning toward the house. West of US-17 this is pine flatwoods on sandy ground, the pines are tall and thin, and a lean that has been there for years is the one people finally call about. Most removals run $1,500–$3,500, with a $800 minimum.

Hampstead Tree Service, Neighborhood by Neighborhood

I live in Hampstead and the equipment lives here with me, at 532 McClammy Rd, Hampstead, NC 28443. That is the whole difference between this town and everywhere else I work: there is no drive. A job here does not have to be big enough to justify hauling a trailer forty minutes first.

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Hampstead is three different kinds of tree job

It is a big unincorporated stretch of Pender County rather than a town with edges, and people say "Hampstead" and mean three different pieces of ground.

East of the highway, toward Topsail Sound and the waterway, the lots end in marsh. The ground gets soft before it gets wet, and the trees nearest the shoreline are shorter and tougher than the same species half a mile inland.

West of the highway is pine flatwoods on sandy soil — loblolly, tall and straight and close together, with water oaks mixed in. Well drained most of the year, which is fine until a wet week and a hard wind arrive together.

The older neighborhoods are their own thing again: Olde Point, Castle Bay and Belvedere Plantation were built into woods that were already grown, so the canopy came with the house. Not much daylight between a trunk and a roof.

View down from the bucket over a mown lawn running out to a marsh shoreline and open water. — Looking down from the bucket at a lawn running out to the marsh edge. The last stretch before the water is where the machine stops.

Tall pines along the road frontage of a Hampstead, NC property, with a dump trailer staged on the shoulder and cut rounds stacked at the treeline. — Loblolly along a road frontage, trailer staged on the shoulder and the first rounds already stacked at the treeline.

The tree I get called about most here

A loblolly pine with a lean in it, over a roof. It is the signature Hampstead call. The pines out here grow fast and tall and carry their weight high, the sand holds a wide shallow root plate instead of a deep one, and a lean that has been quietly getting worse for ten years becomes a phone call the morning after a windy night.

In the older neighborhoods it is the opposite problem: nothing is leaning, there is simply no room. The tree grew up with the house, and now there is a sunroom one side of it and a driveway the other.

How a tree next to the house comes down · Tree removal, start to finish.

Working a sound-side lot

The rule on the water side is simple: the tractor goes as far as the ground will carry it and no further. Past that line the tree is climbed or reached from the firm side and the wood is carried back up the lawn. It costs time and it saves the yard, and I would rather tell you standing in it than discover it on the day.

Access is the other half. Plenty of those lots are long and narrow with the house in the middle, so the only route to the back is a side run — which is what the 36-inch machines are for.

Getting into a fenced or narrow yard.

After a storm, Hampstead is where I start

Being based here is worth the most on the worst days. When a blow comes through, the calls I can physically reach first are the ones in my own county. The phone is answered open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, storm or no storm.

Tree on the house right now · Clearing up once the weather has passed.

What it costs here

Exactly what it costs anywhere else I work. No local premium, no local discount.

My prices, in full · The rest of the towns I cover.

Recent work in Hampstead

Two jobs on the road frontage of Hampstead properties, over three days in the summer of 2025.

Looking down from the lift over a shingled roof in Hampstead, NC, with a compact tractor on the lawn and the boom working the tight gap beside the house. — Looking down from the bucket at the gap between the boom and the roof.

View down from the bucket in Hampstead, NC as a groundman in a red hard hat stands beside a felled dead tree laid out across the driveway. — The dead tree down and laid out along the drive, groundman clearing it.

Towable boom lift staged on pine straw beside a flowering crape myrtle at a Hampstead, NC property, with tall pines behind. — Lift staged on the pine straw, set up to work without touching the crape myrtle.

Mixed pines and hardwoods along the road frontage of a Hampstead, NC home before removal work began. — Before: pines and hardwoods along the frontage, ahead of the removal.

Hampstead questions I get asked

Whereabouts in Hampstead are you based?: 532 McClammy Rd, Hampstead, NC 28443. I live here, so a Hampstead job is not a drive for me and the equipment is already in the county.
Do you work in the older golf-course neighborhoods?: Yes, and they are most of what I do here. Olde Point, Castle Bay and Belvedere Plantation were built in woods that were already mature, so the trees are tall, close to the houses, and almost nothing in them can simply be felled.
My lot backs onto the sound. How close to the water can you work?: As close as the ground will carry a machine, and no closer. The last stretch before the marsh is soft, so that end gets worked from the firm lawn side or climbed instead. I walk it with you before I quote, so nobody is surprised by where the tractor stops.
What is the most common tree job in Hampstead?: A loblolly pine leaning toward the house. West of US-17 this is pine flatwoods on sandy ground, the pines are tall and thin, and a lean that has been there for years is the one people finally call about. Most removals run $1,500–$3,500, with a $800 minimum.

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