Tree Removal in Apache, OK

Apache is a Caddo County town of about 1,034 people, roughly 23 miles north of Lawton. It began with a land run for town lots on August 6, 1901, and has stayed an agricultural center built on wheat and cattle. Tree removal in Apache reflects that farm setting: taking down old trees on homesteads, cleaning up windbreaks and fence lines, and trimming the shade trees around houses in town.

Windbreaks and fence lines

Tree rows planted to slow the wind across fields and around farmsteads age like everything else. Trees die, gaps open up, and volunteer cedar and elm fill in along the wire. We can remove dead or failing trees from a windbreak, clear volunteers off a fence line, or take out a full row. If you plan to replant, grinding the old stumps makes it easier to put in a new row.

Removing big old trees

Many farmhouses around Apache have one or two large trees that have shaded the house for decades. When one starts to fail, with dead sections, a split trunk or rot at the base, it is often right over the roof. We take these down in sections with rigging so the house stays undamaged, then clean up the wood and brush.

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Trimming trees in town

Apache's older streets have mature trees over homes and sidewalks. Clearance trimming over roofs and driveways, deadwood removal and reducing long limbs keep them safer in storms. We cut to proper junctions to avoid stubs that rot.

Weather and elevation

Apache sits at about 1,286 feet and averages about 30.4 inches of precipitation a year. Open farm country gives spring storms a clear path, and trees with weak structure or dead limbs are the first to fail. A pruning visit before storm season reduces the cleanup afterward.

Stump grinding

Stumps on farmsteads get in the way of mowing and equipment. We grind them below grade and can work along a fence line or old windbreak row in one visit.

Trees for the next generation

When an old farmstead tree comes out, many owners want to plant a replacement. Plant it well away from the old stump and from the house, where it has room to reach full size without growing over the roof. Tough, slower-growing trees tend to outlast fast ones in open farm country. Water a young tree deeply through its first few summers, and have its structure pruned while it is still small enough to reach from the ground. A few minutes of corrective pruning at year three saves a big repair at year thirty.

Storm-damaged farm trees

After a spring storm in open farm country, we often find trees that are still standing but badly hurt: a broken top, a split leader or a big limb torn off down the trunk. Some of these can be kept by cleaning up the break and reducing the remaining weight. Others have lost so much that they will decline over the next few years and are better removed now while they can be taken down safely. We will tell you which way we lean and why.

Wood and brush

You choose what happens to the material. We can chip brush and leave chips for mulch, cut wood to firewood length, or haul it all away.