Hardin County stretches from Savannah east to the Tennessee shoreline of Pickwick Lake — and the homes along that water carry trees that didn’t grow up to be ignored. When a hardwood is leaning over your dock, your boathouse, or your roof, what you need is a crew with the lift to put it down clean, in pieces, exactly where it needs to land.
That’s the work the crane truck was built for. The crane reaches up and over the house from the road, picks the tree apart from above, and sets each piece down right where the ground crew wants it. Faster, safer, no truck ruts across the lawn. Same crew on every job — from Savannah and Adamsville on the west to Crump, Saltillo, Pickwick Dam, and Counce on the lake side. Lake-home owner or property manager around Pickwick? Our Pickwick Lake page goes into the lakefront-specific details.
Fully insured, COI in your hands before we set foot on the property — the paperwork commercial accounts, property managers, and lake-home owners expect as a matter of course. The storm emergency page has the details. Call (731) 847-8867 and we’ll come take a look.
The trees along the lake
On the water, wind is the enemy. Trees along the Pickwick shoreline catch gusts coming clear across open water with nothing to slow them — and the ground works against them, too. Saturated, heavy shoreline soil loses its grip on a root system, so a tree that looks solid can come over in a wind that wouldn’t touch it on higher, drier ground. Put ice on top of that saturated root zone and a healthy-looking hardwood is how you end up with a tree on the roof. None of this is hypothetical: when Winter Storm Fern iced over Tennessee in January 2026, the weight of it brought trees down across the region and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands — the kind of event that turns a leaning lakeside hardwood into an emergency.
We also take down a lot of ash. The emerald ash borer is established across West Tennessee, and once it’s in a tree it kills it within a few years — leaving brittle standing deadwood that only gets more dangerous to remove the longer it stands. A bare-topped ash near the house or the drive isn’t a wait-and-see tree. When one has to come down over the water, the crane truck lifts it apart from above — safely up to 107 feet — instead of risking a climber in a leaning tree.
Common questions
How much does tree removal cost in Hardin County?
It comes down to the tree’s size, its condition, and how tight the access is — picking a storm-split oak off a boathouse isn’t the same job as a clear-yard removal. We give a firm price after we see it, and the estimate’s free.
A storm dropped a tree on my house — will you deal with my insurance?
Yes. We document the damage and work directly with your insurer — Farm Bureau, State Farm, Allstate, and others — so your claim moves as smoothly as the cleanup. We handle a lot of storm work along the lake.
When do I actually need a crane?
When a tree’s too big, too dead, or too close to something expensive — a roof, a dock, a boathouse — to climb or drop safely. The crane lifts each piece up and over instead of dropping it and hoping.
