Tree Removal
Whether a tree is damaged, dead, or a safety hazard, our crews handle removal safely and efficiently, with minimal disruption to your property.
Learn more →Bartow's older, established streets carry mature live oaks and laurel oaks that have stood for decades, and an aging canopy like that needs an arborist who can tell a structurally sound giant from one quietly failing inside.
Serving Bartow, Florida, Polk County's seat, through our Lakeland service area, with arborists trained to assess decades old trees, not just recommend removal.
From risk assessments on long standing oaks to storm cleanup after Central Florida's frequent summer thunderstorms, our crews are trained to ANSI A300 and TRAQ standards.
Whether a tree is damaged, dead, or a safety hazard, our crews handle removal safely and efficiently, with minimal disruption to your property.
Learn more →Keep your trees safe, structured, and looking right. We remove dead or overgrown branches, improve clearance, and reduce storm risk.
Learn more →When storms cause tree damage, our emergency team responds quickly to remove hazards, clear debris, and restore safety.
Learn more →Strategic pruning, cabling, and bracing to reduce storm damage risks before severe weather hits.
Learn more →Identifying potential hazards before they become problems. Tree stability, structural integrity, and surrounding risks evaluated on-site.
Learn more →Get expert arborist guidance without a site visit. Share photos or video of your trees and receive a written assessment and estimate within 24 hours.
Learn more →Simplify tree care across multiple properties with a single, trusted provider. Consistent maintenance and emergency response.
Learn more →One point of contact for the whole community: scheduled rounds, reports a board can read, and uniform standards across every lot.
Learn more →ROW maintenance, public works contracts, and storm response for city forestry teams. We handle permits and traffic plans.
Learn more →Corporate campuses, hospital systems, and headquarters landscapes. Quarterly walks, annual risk reports, and paperwork your facilities team can keep on file.
Learn more →Fast dispatch to any property in our service area, with the insurance that matters and safety plans your operations team can review.
Learn more →A geotagged inventory of every tree on the property: species, age, condition, and recommended work, refreshed annually.
Learn more →Real reviews from real customers, straight from our Google Business Profile. Here's what people say once the crew has packed up and the yard is clean.
March 11th, a brief but strong storm came through Goodlettsville and blew over two giant trees in my front yard; one which was being supported by a 3rd tree that was facing and threatening my house. It was an…
From the time I inquired w this company about removing a tree that was strongly impacted from the major strong 80 mph winds on March 3, 2023, they provided us w exceptional service in every way . They were…
My family had a tree removal emergency! A large tree in our back yard was on fire and splitting down the middle. The fire department came out the night before to extinguish the fire, but when I woke up the…
As the seat of Polk County, Bartow has some of the oldest developed streets in the area, and with that age comes a canopy of live oaks and laurel oaks that have had fifty or more years to grow large, and in some cases, to start declining. A tree that size carries real weight over a roof, a driveway, or a power line, and telling a structurally sound old oak from one hiding internal rot takes training, not a glance from the curb.
An expert arborist can walk the property, check the trunk base and major limb unions, and put findings in a written risk assessment following TRAQ methodology before recommending anything. Bartow’s humid subtropical climate and sandy, fast draining soil add their own pressure to that assessment, since roots here have less to hold onto than in denser soils elsewhere. We carry the insurance that matters.
Ganoderma root rot is a serious challenge for Bartow’s older live oaks, since a trunk base conk usually means years of hidden internal decay by the time it appears above ground. Laurel oaks planted decades ago around Bartow are now aging into their decline years too, developing brittle deadwood that is not always visible from below.
Palms across the area face lethal bronzing, and Bartow’s inland location does not spare it from hurricane windthrow, since sandy soil gives roots the same limited grip here as anywhere else in the county. Add the region’s near constant summer lightning and thunderstorm activity, and an old, compromised tree in Bartow rarely gets a quiet season to fail gradually. That is why we recommend a risk assessment before storm season, not after a limb is already down.
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March 11th, a brief but strong storm came through Goodlettsville and blew over two giant trees in my front yard; one which was bei...

From the time I inquired w this company about removing a tree that was strongly impacted from the major strong 80 mph winds on Mar...



My family had a tree removal emergency! A large tree in our back yard was on fire and splitting down the middle. The fire departme...



Great service, communication and fair pricing. Would recommend for any job big or small this company is the real deal! Thanks CATS...



The day before Easter we discovered our largest tree had rotted and split more than halfway through. It had become very dangerous...


I highly recommend this company. Sales guy was awesome. He stepped me through the entire process. Gave me a great quote that I cou...


We found the company to be very efficient, listened carefully to our requests and suggestions. It was a pleasure to work with th...



CATS and the Treemasters crew were awesome. They were so careful taking down a large hackberry and trimming another hanging right...

Highly recommend. We unfortunately had a large tree branch break and hanging over our house about to fall and cause some serious d...
Michael, Antonio and his crew did a fantastic job trimming the trees in the butterfly sanctuary that is our yard in Hendersonville...
Found Joe through a neighbor of ours, so happy we did. He lives and works in East Nashville- super personable and professional. Wo...