Tree Service in Oak Ridge, TN

Tree Service in Oak Ridge has a particular feel, because the city was dropped into a forest almost overnight. It was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project, and housing went up quickly along Black Oak Ridge, which gave the city its name. Many early homes were prefabricated, and many were built from cemesto panels. Builders left a lot of the existing woods in place, so a typical older Oak Ridge home sits on a sloped lot with tall hardwoods and pines close on every side.

What the older neighborhoods need now. The trees around those 1940s and 1950s houses are now very large, and many of the pines and short-lived hardwoods are at the end of their lives. We see a lot of:

• Dead or declining pines close to the house
• Oaks and poplars with heavy limbs reaching over roofs
• Trees on the downhill side of a driveway that have started to lean
• Roots lifting old walks and retaining walls

A note on old cemesto homes. Cemesto panels were a bonded cement and asbestos material. If a tree or limb has damaged the siding or roof of an older home, don't break up or remove the damaged material yourself. Have a qualified contractor look at it. We can remove the tree and limbs without disturbing the structure further.

Big city, lots of land. Oak Ridge covers almost 90 square miles, about 85 of it land, across Anderson and Roane counties. The Clinch River wraps around much of the city, and Melton Hill Lake, formed when its dam was finished in 1963, borders it to the northeast and east. That means everything from tight ridge-top streets to wooded lots with long, steep driveways. For removals on a hillside, we usually take trees down in sections and plan how to get the wood back up to the road. On lake-side lots, we work with the slope and avoid dropping debris into the water.

New owners inheriting old trees. Census figures show that 80.3% of Oak Ridge residents lived in the same house a year earlier, a lower share than in most nearby towns. With a steady flow of new buyers, we often meet people who have just moved in and want to know which of the twenty trees around the house deserve attention first. A walk-through is a good way to start: we point out dead wood, defects and trees that lean toward the house, and rank them so you can plan.

What to watch for here. On pine-heavy lots, look for pitch tubes on the bark and needles turning red, signs of southern pine beetle. In ash trees, look for thinning crowns and woodpecker damage that strips the bark. And after any heavy wet snow, walk the property: bent saplings and cracked leaders in the understory are easy to miss until they fall.

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