Cabarrus County tree work, done right the first time.
Tree removal, trimming, oak and pine care, Bradford pear removal, stump grinding and 24/7 storm cleanup across Concord and the north Charlotte metro — with an ISA Certified Arborist on staff, insurance you can actually see, and a crew that knows a water oak from a willow oak and a public tree from a private one.
Free on-site quote
Same-day callback. Free on-site look and a written price — no guessing over the phone.
A tree company built for Piedmont clay and old oaks
Tree removal
Dead, dying, leaning and in-the-way trees taken down safely — climbed and rigged piece by piece over the house, the deck and the power drop, craned when that's the smart way, dropped whole when there's room.
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Emergency & storm service
Pines on roofs, oaks across driveways, hangers over the sidewalk after an ice storm or a summer squall — answered any hour, with the photos and paperwork your insurer will want.
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Tree trimming & pruning
Crown cleaning, deadwooding, structural pruning and clearance from roofs, wires and driveways — cuts made at the collar where the tree can seal them, never topped.
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Oak tree service
Willow oaks, water oaks, white oaks and red oaks assessed for decay, pruned for structure, cabled when a split is starting, and removed when the trunk has gone hollow.
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Bradford pear removal
The tree that splits in every storm and seeds thorny thickets down the creek. Out, stump ground, and swapped for a native through the NC Bradford Pear Bounty.
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Stump grinding
Stumps ground 8–12 inches below grade, surface roots chased, chips raked and the hole backfilled so you can seed fescue or plant over it.
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Concord grew up around mills, red clay and fast trees
Concord was a mill town before it was a speedway town. The streets around Gibson Mill, Locke Mill and the old Cannon operations in Kannapolis were laid out with small lots and big shade trees — willow oaks, water oaks and tulip poplars planted in the 1920s through the 1960s — and those trees are now 60 to 100 years old, sitting over brick houses that were never meant to have a 90-foot canopy above them.
Under all of it is Cecil clay, North Carolina's state soil: hard as brick in August, saturated in February. Loblolly pines root shallow in it and lever over in wind; water oaks hollow out and drop limbs without warning; the Bradford pears planted in every 1990s subdivision from Moss Creek to Highland Creek split at the crotch the first time an ice storm loads them. Hugo in 1989, the ice storms of 2002 and 2014, Debby and Helene in 2024 — the same trees fail the same way every time.
So we inspect before we sell you anything, prune instead of top, cable an oak that's worth keeping, check the city code instead of guessing, and stay out of the ten feet around Concord Electric Systems' and Duke's lines the way OSHA says to. And because we're here year-round, we're the crew that answers when the storm passes — not the out-of-state trucks that appear for two weeks and vanish.
Four steps, no surprises
Call or send the form
Tell us what's going on — a leaning pine, an oak dropping limbs, a stump in the way, a lot to clear. We answer around the clock.
Free on-site look
Our arborist looks at the tree, the access and what's under it — house, deck, fence, power drop — and tells you plainly: prune it, cable it, take it down, or leave it alone.
Written price
An itemized price good for 30 days, with the removal, rigging or crane, hauling, stump and any city or HOA paperwork spelled out.
Done, chipped, raked
Most jobs finish in a day. Wood chipped, debris hauled, lawn raked, driveway blown off. Stump grinding scheduled if you want it.
From the North Union Street historic district to Highland Creek and Skybrook
We're across Concord every day: the historic streets off North Union, Gibson Village, Logan, the older ranches along Branchview and Burrage, the Poplar Tent and Cox Mill corridors, Christenbury, Moss Creek, Afton Village, Skybrook, Highland Creek and the newer subdivisions along Roberta Road and Rocky River Road toward Harrisburg.
Beyond the city we cover Kannapolis, Harrisburg, Mount Pleasant, Midland and Locust, and across the county line into Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mooresville and Charlotte's University City.
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Questions Concord homeowners ask us
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Concord, NC?
For a tree in the yard of an existing single-family home, in our experience, no. Concord's tree and landscape rules live in Article 11 of the Concord Development Ordinance, and they attach to development and redevelopment plans — the buffers, street trees and planting yards a builder has to install and keep. Trees on city property, in the street right-of-way or in a public easement are a different matter: Chapter 50 of the city code (Ord. 19-25, adopted April 2019) makes it unlawful to remove or damage a public tree, and the city arborist has to be called before anyone digs inside a public tree's critical root zone. HOA covenants and the North Union Street historic district add their own steps. We sort out which bucket your tree is in before a saw comes off the truck.
How much does tree removal cost in Concord?
Most removals in Cabarrus County land between $450 and $3,500. A small dogwood or a Bradford pear on an open lot is at the low end; a 70-foot willow oak leaning over a brick ranch, a pool or the power drop — the kind that has to be climbed and rigged down piece by piece, or lifted out with a crane — is at the high end. Stump grinding is priced separately by the inch. You get an itemized written price on site before anything is cut.
Why do so many Concord yards have trouble with water oaks and pines?
Because the neighborhoods built from the 1950s through the 1980s — Logan, Gibson Village, the streets off Branchview and Union — were planted with fast growers: water oaks, willow oaks, tulip poplars and loblolly pines. Water oaks are short-lived for an oak; at 60 to 80 years they hollow out and start dropping limbs. Loblolly pines root shallow in our red Cecil clay, which turns to soup in a wet winter, so they lever over in wind. Willow oaks and white oaks, by contrast, last for generations if they're pruned right. Knowing which one is over your roof is the whole game.
Do you trim crape myrtles the right way?
Yes — and the right way is not the 'crape murder' cut that leaves knuckled stubs every February. Topping a crape myrtle produces a mop of weak shoots, ruins the bark and invites rot. We remove suckers, crossing branches and seed heads, thin the interior, and leave the natural vase shape the tree was sold for.
Do you really answer at 2 AM after a storm?
24 hours a day, every day. Hugo came through Concord in September 1989 with hurricane-force gusts, the December 2002 ice storm put roughly 1.8 million Carolinas customers in the dark, and Helene's remnants in September 2024 knocked trees onto roofs from Kannapolis to Harrisburg. When a pine is through the kitchen ceiling at 2 AM, the first hour matters. Call, tell us what happened, and you'll get a callback with a plan and a time — not a voicemail box.