Jacksonville is a long way from Hampstead. Do you really come out here?

Yes, and it is the far end of my run, priced the same as everywhere else. What I will not do is pretend I am round the corner. If you need somebody standing in the yard within the hour, call somebody in town. If you want it done right on a day that suits us both, call me.

Can you look at more than one tree while you are up here?

Line them up, please — it is the best use anybody makes of a crew that has driven to them. Several trees at one address, or a neighbour with the same problem next door, works out cheaper per tree than one at a time, and more than one stump at the same address is one of the rates I discount.

Do you work for landlords and property managers, or only homeowners?

Both. Property managers, building owners, HOAs and other contractors are a steady part of what I do, and they want what a homeowner wants: a number before the work starts and the yard left clean after it.

Tree Service in Jacksonville, NC

I am not from here, and I will not pretend otherwise

My yard is at 532 McClammy Rd, Hampstead, NC 28443 and that is where the trailer goes home at night. There is no Jacksonville office, no second crew sitting up here waiting, and no local number that rings through to the same phone to make it look otherwise.

What I will do is come up for real work and charge you the same as I charge somebody two streets from my house — $800 minimum, $1,500–$3,500 for most removals, no mileage added anywhere. If you need somebody in the yard within the hour, you want a Jacksonville company and I will say so. If the tree can wait for the right crew, call me.

Trees that have outgrown the yard they were planted in

Most of what I take down up here was never a forest tree. It is a pine or an oak somebody planted at the corner of a house decades ago, when it was six feet tall and the house was new, and it has been getting on with it ever since. Now it is over the roof, into the drive and lifting the walk — straightforward out back, fiddly at the front, where everything it can damage is.

Bucket lift reaching its boom across a back yard into a tree canopy beside an outbuilding. — Reaching the boom across a back yard rather than driving the machine through it. The way in is usually the first thing I solve.

Make the trip worth both our while

The best thing you can do with a crew that has driven to you is give it more than one thing to do. Three trees at one address, or a neighbour with the same pine over the same fence, costs less per tree than three separate visits: setting up is most of the cost on a small job.

Same with stumps. Grinding is $7 per inch of diameter with a $200 minimum, and more than one stump at the same address is one of the rates I discount — along with seniors and military.

Bucket lift topping a tall pine standing a few feet off a single-storey home in spring. — A pine coming down a section at a time beside a single-storey home. The commonest removal on my whole list.

The full price list · Stump grinding, by the inch.

Storm work at this end of the area

One price genuinely does change out here, and it is the only one. Where a job is nothing but loading debris with the dump trailer and a skid steer or tractor, the first $800 covers one load at this distance, against two dump loads close to home — on a loading job the driving is the work, and I would rather have that written on a page than explain it to you in a driveway.

A removal is not a loading job and does not price that way. A tree in a roof is an emergency call at any hour — the phone is answered open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Storm cleanup · 24/7 emergency work · Sneads Ferry, down at the river mouth.

Rental property, HOAs and other contractors

A good share of the work at this end comes from people who own buildings rather than live in them — property managers, HOAs, building owners, and contractors who need a tree gone before they can start. Same crew, same prices, with rates for anybody with steady work rather than one tree.

Commercial tree work · Everywhere else I cover.

Recent work from our crew

A few of my crew's jobs on tall pine in open yards, which is most of what comes down across the whole service area.

Tall healthy pine photographed before removal with the bucket lift staged at its base. — Before: a tall healthy pine with the lift staged at its base.

Bucket lift working high in a tall pine with a rigging line run to the ground. — Working high in the same pine with a rigging line run to the ground.

Bucket lift trimming a spreading tree beside a single-wide home. — Trimming a spreading tree back off a single-wide home.

Cleared and levelled ground along the same white fence after removal and grinding. — Cleared and levelled ground along a fence after removal and grinding.

Jacksonville questions I get asked

Jacksonville is a long way from Hampstead. Do you really come out here?: Yes, and it is the far end of my run, priced the same as everywhere else. What I will not do is pretend I am round the corner. If you need somebody standing in the yard within the hour, call somebody in town. If you want it done right on a day that suits us both, call me.
Is there a trip charge for being this far out?: Not on the estimate and not on the work. The one place the distance is real is a job that is nothing but loading debris with the dump trailer and a skid steer or tractor: the first $800 covers one load out this way against two dump loads close to home, because on those the driving is the job.
Can you look at more than one tree while you are up here?: Line them up, please — it is the best use anybody makes of a crew that has driven to them. Several trees at one address, or a neighbour with the same problem next door, works out cheaper per tree than one at a time, and more than one stump at the same address is one of the rates I discount.
Do you work for landlords and property managers, or only homeowners?: Both. Property managers, building owners, HOAs and other contractors are a steady part of what I do, and they want what a homeowner wants: a number before the work starts and the yard left clean after it.

Tell me what you have got up there

Say how many trees, roughly how big, and what is underneath them. If it is worth the run I will tell you, and if it is not I will tell you that too. I'd love to be your tree guy.

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