HW Tree Service

Clear the hazard. Open the view.

Owner-operated tree service for Clayton, Lake Burton, and Lake Rabun. Built on hard work, integrity, and safety.

Storm damage does not wait

If a tree is down across your drive or leaning on the house, call or text a photo. Do not send a form and wait on it.

5 stars on Google

Every review left for us so far.

Clayton, GA

Working the Lake Burton and Lake Rabun area of the North Georgia mountains.

Owner-operated

The person who prices your job is the person on the property doing it.

$1M liability insured

Certificate of insurance available before any work starts.

What we do

Four kinds of work, all of it on steep lots where there is no open ground to drop a tree into.

A climber high in a bare-topped tree, harnessed in, working near the top where the wood has already been cut back. images/optimized/service-technical-removal.webp · 900x1200

Technical tree removal

Hazardous trees over houses, decks, and driveways. Taken apart in pieces and lowered, not dropped.

How technical tree removal works
A dead, storm-damaged tree leaning into the branches beside a cabin, with a climber working near the top to bring it down in sections. images/optimized/service-storm-cleanup.webp · 1000x625

Storm damage cleanup

Trees down across a drive, hung up in a neighbor, or leaning on the house after a mountain storm. We clear it and haul the mess off.

How storm cleanup works
A crew member in overalls standing a safe distance back, looking up at a tall leaning tree mid-felling. images/optimized/service-large-felling.webp · 1000x625

Large tree felling

Weight comes off the top first. By the time a big tree goes over, it is lighter, shorter, and going where we planned.

How large tree felling works
The mountain view from a cleared property at sunset, ridgelines visible past the treeline with an American flag on the deck. images/optimized/service-view-clearing.webp · 1400x600

View clearing

Selective limb and tree removal to open up the lake or the ridge line. We take out what blocks the view and leave the trees that hold the bank and frame the property.

More about view clearing

The tree that leans over your roof

That one does not get dropped. It gets climbed, cut into pieces, and lowered on rope, piece by piece, until there is nothing left to fall. Slower on the clock and the only way we will do it over a house.

Insured, and you can check

$1,000,000

General liability coverage

Carried through SiriusPoint Specialty Insurance Corporation. Ask for the certificate of insurance and you will have it before any work starts, not after. Anyone who will not show you one should not be in your trees.

What our customers say

“The results exceeded our expectations. They were professional, communicated well, and left the property clean when the job was finished.”
Kendall Woodard Google review

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Where we work

Based in Clayton. Most of the work is right here in Rabun County and around the lakes, and we travel up to about two hours out for the right job.

Not sure if you are in range? Call and ask. It is a short conversation.

North Georgia

Clayton, Dillard, Rabun Gap, Mountain City, Sky Valley, Tiger, Lakemont, Tallulah Falls, Lake Burton, Lake Rabun, Clarkesville, Cornelia, Demorest, Toccoa, Cleveland, Helen, Hiawassee, Young Harris, Blairsville, Dahlonega, Gainesville, Blue Ridge, Ellijay, Jasper, Cumming, Athens, and the surrounding counties.

Western North Carolina

Highlands, Cashiers, Franklin, Sylva, Glenville, Hayesville, Murphy, Brevard, Lake Toxaway, Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Waynesville, Asheville, and nearby.

Upstate South Carolina

Walhalla, Westminster, Seneca, Salem, Mountain Rest, Lake Keowee, Lake Jocassee, Clemson, Pickens, Easley, Anderson, Travelers Rest, and Greenville.

How a job goes

Call

Tell us what the tree is doing and where it sits. Text a photo from your phone and that answers most of it.

Walk the property

We look at the tree, the lean, the drop zone, and what is underneath it. That is what decides whether it comes down whole or in pieces.

Price the job

You get the number and the plan before anything starts. No work begins until you say go.

Clean up before we leave

Wood handled the way you want it, debris hauled off, and the property left the way we found it.

Got a tree you are worried about?

Call and describe it. If it needs to come down we will tell you how, and if it can stay we will tell you that too.

Call Text a photo