Tree Removal in Chattanooga, OK

Chattanooga is a town of about 400 people on State Highway 36, straddling the Comanche and Tillman county line roughly 24 driving miles southwest of Lawton. N. C. Sisson named it for his hometown in Tennessee, and the townsite patent was issued in 1902. Tree removal in Chattanooga covers what established small-town lots need when big shade and nut trees fail, along with keeping the healthy ones in shape and grinding stumps.

Pecans and other big shade trees

Pecans grow into large, heavy trees, and their long horizontal limbs are prone to breaking under wind, ice or a heavy nut crop. Elms and hackberries planted around older homes have their own habits, like weak forks and lots of interior deadwood. Pruning a mature tree here usually means:

• Removing dead, broken and crossing limbs
• Shortening long, heavy limbs that extend over the house or driveway
• Thinning the crown lightly so wind passes through
• Raising low limbs for mowing and vehicle clearance

We cut back to healthy side branches or to the branch collar. Flush cuts and stubs both invite decay, and topping a pecan or elm leaves it weaker than before.

Weather extremes

Chattanooga's records run from 116 degrees in summer to 17 below zero in winter, and the town averages about 31 inches of precipitation a year. Trees in this part of Oklahoma have to survive long dry spells, hard freezes and spring storms. Drought-stressed trees drop limbs more easily, and a tree that lost roots to a dry year may be less stable the next spring. Watering big trees deeply during a long dry stretch helps more than people expect.

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When removal is the answer

A tree with a split trunk, a large cavity at the base or a dead crown is a removal. On town lots we usually take trees down in sections to protect houses, fences and the neighbors' property. On farm ground with open space, felling can be faster. We clean up the brush and wood and leave the site raked.

Stumps and replanting

If you plan to replace a tree, grinding the old stump makes room for the new one. We grind below grade and remove the bulk of the chips so you can backfill with topsoil. A new tree is best planted a few feet away from the old stump hole, where the soil has not been filled with decaying wood.

A town shaped by farming

By 1912 Chattanooga had three cotton gins, a lumberyard and a feed yard, and the town is still surrounded by farm land. Many properties have shelterbelts, pasture trees and fence lines in addition to yard trees. We can handle those on the same visit.