Tree service for Smyrna — from the 1940s streets by the old base to the subdivisions off Rock Springs Road
Smyrna has been hit by a tornado more recently than anywhere else in the county — March 25, 2021, 22 homes around Clarkston Square — and its trees are a mix of old maples by the airport and twenty-five-year-old Bradford pears everywhere else.
Smyrna grew up around Sewart Air Force Base and the Nissan plant, and its tree canopy tells the story: big sugar maples, hackberries and oaks on the 1940s-through-'60s streets between Lowry Street and the airport, then subdivisions on subdivisions from the 1990s on — Rock Springs, Stonecrest, the neighborhoods off Sam Ridley Parkway, Enon Springs and Almaville Road — planted with Bradford pears, green ash and red maples that are now hitting the age where the pears split and the ash die. The March 25, 2021 tornado went through the Clarkston Square area just west of I-24 off Rock Springs Road and damaged 22 homes, and the trees that failed were the same ones that fail everywhere: hackberries, silver maples and pears.
We work Smyrna every week, from the older lots where a 70-foot hackberry sits over a small brick house to the HOA streets where a row of dead ash needs to come out before it lands on a car. Smyrna has its own street-tree rules for the town right-of-way; trees in your yard are yours, and we check which is which before quoting.
What we do in Smyrna
Older-neighborhood removals
Big maples and hackberries over the small lots between Lowry Street and the airport, rigged or craned.
HOA dead-ash rows
Street ash in the Rock Springs and Sam Ridley subdivisions removed as a group and replaced.
Storm cleanup
24/7 after tornado warnings and straight-line winds; the 2021 tornado zone is still full of trees the storm loosened.
Bradford pear replacement
Out, ground, and swapped for a native.
Stump grinding
811 called, ground below grade where the rock allows.
Commercial
Nissan-corridor businesses, churches and apartment complexes on annual programs.
Neighborhoods and areas we cover
- Downtown Smyrna & Lowry Street
- Rock Springs
- Stonecrest
- Sam Ridley Parkway corridor
- Enon Springs
- Almaville Road
- Clarkston Square
- Chaney Woods
- Cedar Grove
- Seminary & Weakley Lane
- Smyrna Airport area
- Percy Priest side (Stewart Creek)
Tree services available in Smyrna
- Tree removal, crane removal, 24/7 emergency service
- Trimming & pruning, hackberry, maple & oak care, cabling & bracing
- Ash removal (EAB), Bradford pear removal
- Stump grinding, storm cleanup, lot & cedar clearing
- HOA & commercial tree service
Questions from Smyrna homeowners
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Smyrna?
For a tree in your own yard, in our experience, no. The Town of Smyrna regulates trees on town property and in the right-of-way and has landscape requirements on approved site plans; a tree between the sidewalk and the street is the town's. We check the property line before we quote.
Who do I call about a tree on the power line in Smyrna?
Middle Tennessee Electric. Never let anyone cut a tree that's touching an energized line — MTE makes it safe first, then we handle the tree.
How much does tree removal cost in Smyrna?
About the same as Murfreesboro: $250 to $700 for a small tree, $600 to $1,500 for a medium one on an open lot, $1,500 to $4,000 for a big hackberry or maple rigged down over a house, and $2,500 to $7,000 with a crane.
Do you handle storm damage in Smyrna?
24/7. After the March 2021 tornado we worked the Clarkston Square and Rock Springs Road area for a week. Roofs and driveways first, hangers next, yard cleanup after.
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