Tree Service in New Market, AL

New Market is about 17 miles northeast of Huntsville and six miles from the Tennessee line, and tree service in New Market usually means bigger properties, longer driveways and older trees than in the suburbs. Pro Tree Service Huntsville comes out to rural homesites, farm lots and the historic center alike.

Isaac and Joseph Criner settled near the Mountain Fork of the Flint River in 1804, and the community is described as the first area settled in what became Madison County. George Smith built the first log house and store in 1814, and John Miller dug a millrace and built a gristmill and sawmill in 1819. The New Market Historic District, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches and the Whitman-Cobb House are on the National Register. New Market has never incorporated, and it is still a small place: 1,543 people in 2020 across about 17.5 square miles.

The terrain

Backbone Mountain and other outliers of the Cumberland Plateau rise about 800 feet above town to the east. The Mountain Fork runs through the north. That mix of ridges, hollows and creek bottoms means a single property can have dry, rocky upland with oaks and hickories and a wet bottom with sycamores and maples. The two behave very differently in storms and need different handling when they come down.

Cold that breaks records

New Market holds Alabama's all-time low temperature: minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded on January 30, 1966. Hollows and valley floors collect cold air on still winter nights. Extreme cold can cause frost cracks, long vertical splits in the trunk of thin-barked trees, and late freezes can kill new growth in spring. A frost crack is not always fatal, but it is an opening for decay, and we check for it on older trees.

Access is half the job

On rural lots, how a crew gets to the tree often matters more than the tree itself. Before we price a job, we look at:

• Driveway width, culverts and soft spots a loaded truck could sink into
• Whether there is room to fell a tree or it must come down in pieces
• Fences, wells, septic fields and buried lines in the way
• Where the wood should go: chipped and hauled, left as firewood rounds, or piled for you

If the work involves stump grinding, Alabama 811 should mark buried utilities first.

Old trees near old buildings

In and around the historic center, some properties have trees as old as the nineteenth-century churches and houses nearby. Work there is slower and more careful: wood is lowered by rope, not dropped, and we keep equipment off old walks and stone walls. Rural or village, the written estimate lists exactly what will be cut and how the site will be left.

Work we take on in New Market

• Large tree removal near homes and outbuildings
• Pruning for clearance over driveways and roofs
• Clearing storm-damaged or dead trees along fence lines
• Stump grinding
• Emergency tree removal after storms and ice

Call (938) 666-8748 or send photos through the form. Get a free estimate