Tree Trimming in Elmore

Elmore is a small rural community in Elmore County, loosely organized around the Elmore crossroads area along the Alabama River. It's not incorporated and has no dense town center, but it has a significant number of rural residential properties with large lots and mature trees. Many properties here have been in families for generations, and the trees reflect that — some are very old and have never been professionally assessed.

Overgrown trees in Montgomery drop limbs fast when summer storms roll through — and we get a lot of those between June and September. The pine trees and water oaks common in neighborhoods like Dalraida and Wynlakes grow quickly in the Alabama heat, and they need regular trimming to stay safe near rooflines and power lines. Skip it too long and you're not just looking at a mess — you're looking at a tree that's already leaning the wrong way.

We climb or use a bucket truck depending on the tree and what's around it, and we cut to the branch collar — that's the swollen ring where the branch meets the trunk — so the tree seals itself properly. Hacking branches flat or flush with the trunk leaves open wounds that rot inward, and we see that mistake on trees all over the older parts of Montgomery where someone did a quick job 10 years ago.