Tree Removal in Faxon, OK

Faxon is one of the smallest towns in Comanche County, with 114 residents and 58 housing units at the 2020 census. It sits on State Highway 36 about 18 driving miles southwest of Lawton. Tree removal around Faxon tends to mean old homestead trees that have reached the end of their life, stumps in the way of mowing, and brush that has crept in around outbuildings and fences.

Old trees on old places

Faxon had more people in 1910 than it does today, and many properties around town have trees that were planted generations ago. Old cottonwoods, elms and hackberries can look solid from the road and still be hollow at the base. Signs worth a closer look include mushrooms or conks on the trunk, cracks running up from the root flare, dead limbs high in the crown and a lean that has gotten worse. We check these when we look at a tree and tell you whether it can be pruned and kept or should come down.

Removing a tree near an old house or barn

Older farmhouses and barns often sit right under the biggest trees on the property, because that was where the shade was. Taking a large tree down beside a structure like that is a sectional job: we climb or use a lift, cut the crown into manageable pieces and lower them with rigging. The trunk comes down last in short sections. The goal is that nothing lands on the roof, the porch or the wiring.

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Stump grinding on country lots

Stumps on rural lots tend to get mowed around for years. Eventually someone wants a clean yard, a garden spot or a building pad. We grind stumps several inches below the surface and can follow surface roots that heave the ground. The grindings can be raked back into the hole and topped with soil, or spread as mulch.

Brush and volunteer trees

Open ground in southwest Oklahoma fills in quickly with volunteer cedar, elm and other scrub when it is not mowed or grazed. Around a farmstead, that growth crowds fences, hides snakes, and gives a grass fire a path to the buildings. We cut and chip volunteer brush, remove small cedars below their lowest limbs, and leave the area open enough to keep up with a mower.

Low, flat ground

At about 1,083 feet, Faxon is lower and flatter than the Lawton area to the northeast. Trees on flat open ground get the full force of spring winds. We pay attention to root plates on big trees, especially after heavy rains, since saturated soil makes it easier for a large tree to tip over in a storm.