Tucker gives you five non-specimen trees a calendar year before a permit is needed — and its specimen thresholds are high enough that most ordinary yard trees stay under them.
Tree services we provide in Tucker
- Tree removal — hazardous, dead, storm-damaged or in-the-way trees, including crane-assisted and tight-access removals.
- Tree trimming and pruning — crown thinning, deadwooding and clearance from roofs, drives and lines, cut to ISA standards rather than topped.
- Stump grinding — ground below grade with surface roots taken out, cleaned up and the grade restored.
- Storm damage response — trees on structures, blocked driveways, hangers and split leaders.
- Tree health diagnostics — an ISA Certified Arborist diagnoses decline, pests and disease and writes a treatment plan instead of guessing.
- Cabling and bracing — structural support for split trunks, weak unions and heavy horizontal limbs worth saving.
- Lot and land clearing — selective or full clearing for building, drainage or reclaiming overgrown ground.
What makes tree work in Tucker different
Tucker sits at 1,117 feet, the highest point on the rail line between Atlanta and Richmond, and the Eastern Continental Divide runs through the city along Chamblee-Tucker Road to LaVista Road, so lots drain hard in two directions and hillside removals need rigging rather than open felling. The housing stock is 1960s and 70s ranch and split-level plus 1970s and 80s multi-storey, many with daylight basements. The original planted water oaks and pines on those lots are now fifty-five to sixty-five years old, at or past their structural service life, sited close to houses, basement walls and overhead service drops.
Tree removal permits in Tucker
A permit is required if you remove more than five non-specimen trees in a calendar year, or if you remove any healthy specimen tree. Specimen means any tree in fair or better condition at or above 30 inches DBH for large hardwoods such as oak, hickory and yellow poplar, 30 inches for large softwoods including pines and evergreens, or 10 inches for small trees such as dogwood, redbud and sourwood. Two exemptions apply: trees determined to be diseased or insect infested, which should be determined by a certified arborist, and any tree that has become or threatens to become a danger to life or property, including trees with significant storm damage.
Where we work in Tucker
We are on jobs across Tucker regularly, including Smoke Rise, Idlewood, Livsey, Brockett, Midvale, Briarcliff Village, the Northlake area, Cofer Crossing and downtown Main Street. Tucker is in DeKalb County.
Why Tucker homeowners call us
- Every job is scoped by an ISA Certified Arborist, not a salesperson — so you get a straight answer on whether a tree has to come down.
- Family-owned and working in Metro Atlanta since 1985, from our yard on Nekoma Street in Marietta.
- Fully licensed and insured, and TrustDale certified.
- Written estimates before any work starts, and no charge for the estimate.
- Open seven days a week, 7am to 11pm, including storm days.
- We clean up. Chips, brush and rounds go with us unless you want the wood.
Tucker tree service questions
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Tucker, GA?
Often not. Tucker allows five non-specimen trees per calendar year without a permit, and its specimen thresholds are relatively high — 30 inches DBH for large hardwoods and softwoods, though only 10 inches for dogwoods and other small trees. Diseased or infested trees and genuine danger trees, including storm-damaged ones, are exempt when determined by a certified arborist. Our arborists make and document that determination.
How much does tree removal cost in Tucker?
Price comes down to height, trunk diameter, what is underneath the tree and how much room we have to work. A straightforward pine in an open back yard is a completely different job from a seventy-foot oak leaning over a roof with no room for a crane. We price on site, in writing, and the estimate is free.
Can you get your equipment into my yard?
Slope is the Tucker variable. Daylight-basement lots mean the back of the house is a storey lower than the front, so the drop zone is often downhill and the debris has to come back up. We plan those as rigging jobs and bring a crane to the street where the reach works.
Free tree service estimate in Tucker
Tell us what you are looking at and we will come out, put eyes on the tree and give you a written price. Call (770) 974-3964 or request an estimate online. Financing is available, and new customers get 20% off.
