Tree Removal in Lexington, NC

Price tracks the tree’s size, how close it is to your house, and how clear the drop zone is. A Category One job — a small pine in an open backyard — is the quickest visit. A Category Two job — a 30-to-60-foot tree that needs sectional rigging — is the most common. Category Three jobs (60ft+, mill-village rigged drops, or storm-damaged) take the most technical rigging. We give you a firm written price before we start, and the price is what you pay — call or use the form below for a free estimate.

Sometimes, sometimes not. The general rule: if a healthy tree comes down on a covered structure (your house, garage, fence, or car), most policies will cover the removal as part of the claim. If the tree is standing and you just want it gone — say it’s dying, or growing too close to the foundation — that’s usually a homeowner expense. We can document the removal with photos, dates, and an itemized invoice if you need to file. If you’re not sure where your situation falls, call your insurer first and ask before we schedule the work.

For trees on your own private property inside the City of Lexington, no — the city doesn’t require a permit to remove a tree in your yard. Two exceptions worth flagging. First, trees in the public right-of-way along the street: the city and/or NCDOT handles those depending on the road. Second, if the tree is touching the Lexington Utilities primary wire, the drop has to be coordinated with the utility before we can cut — that’s a phone call we’ll make for you. Outside city limits in rural Davidson County, EnergyUnited or Duke handles the wire instead. Mention your address when you call and we’ll walk through what applies.

Mill-village lots in Lexington are usually too narrow for a clean fell, so the careful work isn’t the drop, it’s the rigging. The crew stages in the road, the climber ropes the limbs out one section at a time, and the front yard never sees a piece of wood land hard. When the tree is close to the primary wire — Lexington Utilities inside the city limits, EnergyUnited or Duke out in the county — we coordinate the service drop before we cut so there’s no surprise outage and no surprise repair bill. On a dry day in a normal yard the grass looks the same after as before. In rural Davidson County where there’s room to swing wide, the planning is different but the principle is the same: the property looks like a job site only while we’re on it.

Yes, just let us know when you call. Tell us if you want it cut to firewood length (16-inch rounds is the standard for a wood stove) and stacked, or just left in a pile. There’s no upcharge for either option — it actually saves us a trip to the yard-waste facility. Same goes for the wood chips: if you want a pile of mulch left in your driveway for landscaping use, say so, otherwise we haul it.

Stump grinding is a separate service, usually quoted alongside the removal. It’s optional — some folks keep the stump as a planter or a table base. The advantage of doing it the same day is that the stump grinder is already on the truck, so you save the trip charge of bringing it back out for a second visit.

For Lexington, usually same day or next morning if we’re already on a Davidson County route — otherwise next morning. Lexington is the furthest south we run, so when we can batch your estimate against another job on US-52 the trip pencils out faster. Call before 2 in the afternoon and we’ll let you know honestly whether today or tomorrow is realistic. If you send a photo of the tree with your number, we can sometimes give you a quote over the phone for the smaller Category One jobs.

All of it. The trunk, the wood rounds, the limbs, the chips, the leaves on the ground from where the tree dropped them, and the scrap bark. We rake the work area when we’re done and run a magnet across the driveway if we ran the chipper there. If a section of fence had to come down to get the truck in, we put it back. If you want any of the wood kept, tell us in advance — otherwise it goes on the truck with everything else.

Yes — we cover the whole Triad from our High Point shop. Common Lexington spillover: the small Davidson County communities around the city — Welcome to the north on the way back to our shop, Reeds and Tyro to the west; Thomasville between Lexington and High Point; and Winston-Salem up US-52 (the city has its own dedicated page, and US-52 is a real commuter corridor for our Lexington customers). Each town has its own dedicated page on our site, or call and we’ll tell you straight whether your zip is on the route.

Call us first at (336) 259-8460, then your insurance. We answer through the night. We can tarp the roof to stop water damage, get the tree off safely, and document the whole job with photos and an itemized work order for your claim. We’ve worked with most major insurers in NC and know what they need to approve the work.