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Services
Service areas
Travis County
Arborists working Rough Hollow, The Hills, Lakeway Highlands and every neighbourhood in between. Everything scoped in writing, full cleanup, no travel surcharge.
Lakeway is the most technically demanding area we work. Lots are steep, houses are built into the slope, and the drop below a tree is frequently a cliff, a roof or the lake. Very little here can be dropped, so almost everything is rigged, and we will tell you plainly when a tree on your lot is a full rigging job rather than a routine one.
It is also the area where wildfire risk is most serious. Continuous Ashe juniper running up a slope to a house is close to a textbook fuel path, and the topography accelerates fire uphill. Fuel reduction and defensible space work is genuinely the most valuable service we provide in Lakeway.
Oak wilt is well established through this corridor. Combined with thin soil over limestone and repeated drought, the mature live oaks that give Lakeway its character are under real pressure, and early intervention makes a substantial difference.
If you are near Lake Travis, 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
Selective clearing that takes out the cedar and leaves the oaks worth keeping.
Learn moreDiagnosis and treatment for oak wilt, decline and pests, from the people who see it every week.
Learn moreFor trees too large, too dead or too close to the house to dismantle safely on rope alone.
Learn moreStructural pruning that improves the health of the tree instead of just making it smaller.
Learn moreQuestions
Yes, and it is a substantial part of what we do out here. Steep terrain means almost everything is rigged and lowered rather than dropped, and material often has to be hauled uphill by hand to reach a chipper. It takes longer than the equivalent flat-lot job, which is reflected in the estimate, but it is the only safe way to do it.
Start with the first five feet around the structure, which should carry no continuous vegetation at all. Out to thirty feet, break up continuous canopy, remove ladder fuels that let a ground fire climb into the crowns, and clear dead material. Beyond that, thin the cedar so fire cannot run unbroken up the slope. We survey and quote this per property.
Selectively, and with real care. Crown raising and thinning frequently opens a view without removing anything, and it keeps the slope stabilised. Clear-cutting a steep bank for a view removes the root network holding the soil, and the erosion that follows is a far bigger problem than the view was ever worth.
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
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What this site keeps
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Internal machinery. Reachable only at ?studio=1 and never shown to a visitor.
Identity
Colour
Type pairing
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