Tree Trimming in Pike Road

Pike Road is one of the fastest-growing towns in Alabama, incorporated in 2005 and built almost entirely on large-lot residential development east of Montgomery. Homes here tend to sit on one to five acre parcels, which means more trees per property than almost anywhere else in the service area. The town is mostly new construction with young to mid-age trees, but the wooded character of the land means tree work is part of ongoing property maintenance for essentially every homeowner.

Overgrown trees in Montgomery drop limbs fast when summer storms roll through — and we get a lot of those between June and September. The pine trees and water oaks common in neighborhoods like Dalraida and Wynlakes grow quickly in the Alabama heat, and they need regular trimming to stay safe near rooflines and power lines. Skip it too long and you're not just looking at a mess — you're looking at a tree that's already leaning the wrong way.

We climb or use a bucket truck depending on the tree and what's around it, and we cut to the branch collar — that's the swollen ring where the branch meets the trunk — so the tree seals itself properly. Hacking branches flat or flush with the trunk leaves open wounds that rot inward, and we see that mistake on trees all over the older parts of Montgomery where someone did a quick job 10 years ago.