Tree Service in Toney, AL

Toney is an unincorporated community in northwestern Madison County, and tree service in Toney covers everything from creek-bottom trees along Limestone Creek to yard trees on homesites that were cotton fields not long ago. Pro Tree Service Huntsville works across Toney and the country roads toward Harvest, Ardmore and the Limestone County line.

The railroad that made the town

Toney grew up around a depot on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis line. A June 1899 newspaper account credits "Jim" Toney with establishing the town in 1897, and the post office opened in 1898 with Blanche Rawls Toney as the first postmaster. By 1899 the village had a gin, a grist and saw mill, a blacksmith shop and four stores. Trains ran until 1929. The old depot still stands on Old Railroad Bed Road, the route of the former line.

The 2011 tornado

On April 27, 2011, the long-track tornado that crossed northern Alabama hit Toney at high-end EF3 strength, leveling poorly anchored homes in the Carter's Gin subdivision. Many yards in that area were replanted afterward. Those trees are now old enough that their structure matters. A tree with a strong single trunk and well-spaced limbs handles wind far better than one with competing stems and tight forks, and the time to fix that is while the tree is still young.

Creek bottoms

Limestone Creek starts a few miles north in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and runs through Toney on its way into Limestone County. Trees along creeks share some common traits:

• They grow fast in moist soil and often have weak, brittle wood
• They lean toward the open light over the water
• Banks undercut by floods can leave roots exposed
• Soft ground limits equipment access during the wet months

If a creek-side tree is leaning toward your house, a shed or a fence, have it looked at before the next wet spring.

Country lots

Many Toney homes sit on an acre or more. Common jobs here include removing dead trees in fencerows, cutting back limbs over long drives and clearing a spot for a garden, shop or addition. Before any stump grinding, have buried lines marked through Alabama 811.

Farm ground and young trees

Much of the land around Toney has been cotton and soybean ground for generations. Trees planted on former farmland grow in soil that can be compacted from years of equipment traffic, which keeps roots shallow. That makes good structure even more important. Mulching a wide ring around young trees, instead of mowing up to the trunk, helps roots spread and protects the bark.

We also see a lot of volunteer trees, hackberry, cedar and sweetgum among them, along fences and ditches. Left alone, they become hard-to-remove trees tangled in wire and fencing. Clearing them while they are small is far easier.

Work we do in Toney

• Storm damage cleanup and emergency tree removal
• Structural pruning for trees replanted after 2011
• Tree removal near homes and outbuildings
• Creek-side tree assessment and removal
• Stump grinding

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