Tree Service in Midtown Memphis, TN

Midtown is where we do more work than anywhere else in the city. It is also the hardest — narrow lots, old houses, power lines, alleys, and some of the oldest and largest trees in Memphis standing right on top of all of it.

Why Midtown Memphis trees need their own approach

The canopy through Central Gardens, Evergreen and Cooper-Young is genuinely special, and it is old. Trees that size need proper assessment rather than guesswork, because when one of them fails it takes a roof with it. Removals here are almost always technical: rigged down in pieces, often over a neighbor's fence, sometimes with the road coned off. It is not work for a crew without insurance.

What we do in Midtown Memphis

• Tree removal — including large and difficult removals using a crane where access is tight
• Tree trimming and pruning — canopy thinning, dead-wooding, raising limbs clear of roofs
• Disease and insect assessment — a certified arborist checks whether a tree can be saved
• Storm damage response — getting a fallen tree off a house, fence or driveway
• Stump grinding and full clean-up

What the work usually involves in Midtown Memphis

Access decides almost everything about a Midtown job, and it is usually the reason one quote differs from another. The lots are narrow and the houses sit close, so a crane that would park on a driveway in Germantown often has to go on plywood to spread the load, or into a neighbor's yard, or not at all — and when it cannot come in, the tree is climbed and rigged down by hand, which takes longer. Overhead wires run through the back of most of these blocks, so a share of our Midtown work needs MLGW to drop the power before we start, which we arrange. The trees themselves are mostly mature southern oaks, pecans and elms with canopies spanning two or three yards at once, which is why so many of these jobs involve a conversation with the neighbor before anything is cut.

Recent jobs in Midtown Memphis

• A large water oak behind a Central Gardens drive, taken down by hand with no crane at all — the only way in was through two back yards, and the power had to be dropped to both houses first.
• A 62-inch oak beside a parking area, lifted out by crane set up on the overflow lot, with the condition that no heavy equipment crossed the paving.
• A pecan spanning three yards and a run of service wires, elevated and reduced over the houses with a bucket truck, avant loader and grapple truck working up both driveways.

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Get a free estimate in Midtown Memphis

Call 901-363-3539 or fill out the form below and we’ll call you back to arrange a visit. We cover 38104, 38105, 38112, 38107 and the surrounding streets.