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
Hays County
Arborists working Garlic Creek, Sunfield, Whispering Hollow and every neighbourhood in between. Everything scoped in writing, full cleanup, no travel surcharge.
Buda is split down the middle geologically, and it genuinely changes what we do. West of I-35 the Balcones Escarpment brings thin soil over limestone, Ashe juniper and the shallow-rooted live oaks of the Hill Country. East of the highway it is deep Blackland clay growing large cedar elms and pecans.
Practically, that means two properties three miles apart in the same town can need almost opposite advice. A western Buda live oak is at risk from compaction and drought on thin soil. An eastern Buda cedar elm is dealing with clay that shrinks and swells enough to tear fine roots apart every year.
Buda is also close enough to our South Austin yard to be one of our fastest response areas, which matters during storm season along this stretch of the corridor.
If you are near Buda City 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 moreTechnical, piece-by-piece removal of trees that cannot be saved, including work over roofs and pools.
Learn moreDiagnosis and treatment for oak wilt, decline and pests, from the people who see it every week.
Learn moreGrinding well below grade so you can replant, re-turf or build over the spot without a callback.
Learn moreQuestions
Because the Balcones Escarpment runs straight through the town. West of I-35 you have thin soil over limestone, where trees root wide and shallow and suffer from compaction and drought. East of I-35 you have deep expansive clay, where trees root deeper but endure severe soil movement between wet and dry seasons. The two need genuinely different management.
Yes, particularly along the escarpment through western Buda where live oaks grow in the connected stands the disease exploits underground. Treat the February to June no-pruning window as a firm rule, paint any unavoidable wound immediately, and have crown thinning or veinal yellowing inspected early rather than waiting to see if it worsens.
Typically two to three hours, which makes Buda one of our fastest response areas outside Austin itself given the short run down from our South Austin yard. After a widespread regional storm we triage by severity across the whole service area, prioritising trees on structures and blocked access.
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
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