Storm line answered 24/7
(512) 555-0142A crew member answers this line. Not an answering service.
(512) 555-0142Either way you end up talking to the same crew. This just decides what we put in front of you first — and the storm line is (512) 555-0142 whichever you pick.
Services
Service areas
Travis County
Arborists working Hyde Park, Tarrytown, Travis Heights and every neighbourhood in between. Everything scoped in writing, full cleanup, no travel surcharge.
Austin is a city that grew up inside a live oak forest, and it shows. Neighbourhoods like Hyde Park, Travis Heights and Tarrytown have canopy that predates the houses under it, and much of that canopy is now old enough to need real structural attention rather than a trim.
Two things make Austin tree work distinctive. The first is oak wilt, which has moved through parts of West Austin and the Northwest Hills steadily for decades and dictates a strict pruning calendar. The second is the City of Austin tree ordinance, which is one of the more protective in Texas: trees at 19 inches diameter are protected, and Heritage trees at 24 inches and above require a full permit process to touch.
The yard is in South Austin, which puts crews inside the loop quickly. For emergency calls we reach most Austin addresses within two hours, and scheduled work is generally booked five to eight business days out.
If you are near Zilker Park, we are already working your street most weeks. This list is not exhaustive, so call even if you do not see your subdivision.
Locally requested
Structural pruning that improves the health of the tree instead of just making it smaller.
Learn moreDiagnosis and treatment for oak wilt, decline and pests, from the people who see it every week.
Learn moreTechnical, piece-by-piece removal of trees that cannot be saved, including work over roofs and pools.
Learn moreA real crew on the phone at 3am, not an answering service. Trees off houses, driveways cleared.
Learn moreQuestions
Very likely. The City of Austin protects trees measuring 19 inches or more in diameter at 4.5 feet above grade, and classifies qualifying species at 24 inches and above as Heritage trees requiring a more involved review. Removing either without approval can result in fines running into thousands of dollars. We measure your tree and handle the application.
We reach most Austin addresses within two hours for a tree on a structure, and often faster inside the loop given our South Austin base. After a widespread storm every crew in the city is committed simultaneously, so we triage by severity and give you an honest position in the queue rather than an optimistic promise.
It depends where you are. West Austin, Northwest Hills, Rollingwood and parts of Westlake have long-established infection centres. East and Southeast Austin see less pressure but are not immune. The safest approach anywhere in the city is to prune oaks only between July and January, and to have any suspicious crown thinning looked at early.
Work log
These are illustrative of the kind of work and the kind of decision, written up as a crew note. This is a demonstration site: it publishes no reviews, no ratings and no customer names, because it has no customers.
Dead pecan standing six feet from a bedroom wall.
No room to fell and no crane access down the side return, so the tree came down in rigged sections lowered on a friction device. The climber walked the homeowner through the rigging plan from the ground before going up, which is standard: anyone whose house is under the drop zone is entitled to understand it.
Close quarters is a rigging problem, not a felling problem.
Homeowner had two quotes to top the tree.
Topping was declined and the reason explained: the flush of weak regrowth it triggers is far more likely to fail than the limb being removed, and the decay pockets left behind never close. The tree was reduced to suitable lateral branches instead, taking roughly 15% of the live crown.
A company that offers to top your tree is telling you something.
Three live oaks thinning from the top down.
Pattern and veinal necrosis matched oak wilt. A trench was cut to sever the root grafts running toward the healthy stems, and the two unaffected trees were injected. The infected tree was removed outside beetle season and the wood was not kept on site.
Roughly 90% of local spread is underground. Trenching is the treatment.
A free on-site visit from an arborist, the whole scope agreed in writing before we start, and no travel surcharge anywhere in our service area.
The kit
Display, colour, access and storage
Theme
Both themes are drawn rather than inverted. Light is the canopy at noon, dark is the understory at dusk, and the drifting light in the hero is tuned separately for each.
Mode
The same switch that sits in the header. Emergency mode overrides the colour scheme on purpose — see the note under Palette.
Colour scheme
Four schemes, each measured for text contrast in both light and dark before it was offered here. A scheme that could not pass in both is not in this list.
Emergency mode is frozen against this control. Whatever scheme you pick, a limb on the roof is always signal amber — a warning colour that moves with a brand preference is not a warning colour.
Text size
Switches
Reduce motion starts switched on if your device already asks for it. These are real controls, not a badge: this site claims no formal accessibility conformance, because it has not been audited against one. What it has been is measured — seethe accessibility statement.
What this site keeps
us-themelight, dark or systemus-palettewhich colour scheme you choseus-modeplanning or emergencyus-a11yyour accessibility switchesus-storagethis decision, so we stop askingFive keys in this browser's localStorage, and nothing else. No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, no cookies at all. They are functional preferences rather than tracking, but they are still yours to refuse.
Internal machinery. Reachable only at ?studio=1 and never shown to a visitor.
Identity
Colour
Type pairing
This site keeps five preference keys in your browser — theme, colour scheme, mode and your accessibility switches. No cookies, no analytics, no third parties.