Tree Service in Lowry Crossing, TX

Tree Service in Lowry Crossing tends to be about catching up. The city covers roughly 2.6 square miles with 1,689 residents at the 2020 census, and about 13.1% of them were counted as living in rural areas. Princeton borders it on the east, and it sits a short drive from McKinney. Homes here are spread out, a lot of trees were never pruned, and the work is often a mix of hazard removal, cleanup and making room for vehicles and outbuildings.

A steady population, aging trees

Lowry Crossing grew from 443 people in 1980 to 1,229 in 2000 and 1,711 in 2010, then held nearly flat, at 1,689, in 2020. Unlike the cities around it, it has not been rebuilt by new subdivisions. That means fewer builder-planted saplings and more trees that have been growing on the same lots for decades: old hackberries and elms near houses, cedars along fences, and volunteer trees in corners that nobody mows. Those trees tend to be overdue for deadwood removal, and some have reached the size where a dead limb falling on a roof or a truck is a real cost.

How a rural-lot job usually goes

1. We walk the property with you and flag every tree in the scope with tape, marking which come out, which get pruned and which are left alone. 2. We check access: gates, culverts, septic fields, soft ground and overhead lines. On clay after rain, equipment may need to wait or use mats. 3. Dead and leaning trees closest to structures come first. On tight spots, we take them down in sections rather than felling them. 4. Brush is chipped on site. You can keep chips for driveways, paths or beds, or we haul them. 5. Stumps are ground or cut flush, your choice; cut-flush is common in pasture where nobody will mow.

Lines on the property

Rural lots often have a long overhead service drop from the road to the house, and sometimes a second line to a barn or well pump. Oncor's guidance, for properties on its system, is that the owner hires a qualified tree trimmer for the service line to the house and requests a temporary disconnect through the retail electric provider; the utility's crews handle the higher-voltage lines. Never cut near primary lines yourself. If your power comes from a cooperative, call them first; the rules are similar.

Ash and drought

Emerald ash borer was confirmed in Collin County in 2024. Ash were not a common volunteer in fence rows, but many rural homes have one planted near the house. During long summer droughts on blackland clay, stressed trees drop limbs more readily and are more vulnerable to borers, so a dry August is a good time to look over the big trees near where you park and sleep. On larger lots, one visit often handles what would be three or four separate calls in town, so it pays to list everything that bothers you, from the dead cedar by the gate to the stump in the side yard.

Call (469) 421-7984 or send the form with a few details about the property. We will come out, walk it with you and leave a written estimate. Get a free estimate