--- title: "Tree Service in Clinton & Oak Ridge — Leo's Tree Service" canonical: "https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/anderson-county/" description: "Tree removal, pruning and storm response in Clinton, Oak Ridge, Norris, Claxton and Andersonville, Tennessee. Call 865-360-6685 for a free estimate." --- # Tree service in Anderson County ## Recent work in Anderson County ### Seven trees, a woodshop and a septic line Andersonville · April 2026 Seven trees came down across two properties here. The estimate was split into four parts because the homeowner asked for it that way, which let them take the two trees threatening the roof first and leave the lower-priority ash for later. The septic line set the drop direction before anything else was decided. It runs underneath the far side of the gravel driveway, so the first two trees had to come down away from the house and away from the drive, with no option to swing either one toward the open ground. The smaller trees downhill of the far tree were cut first to clear the landing. - **Part 1.** Two trees in front of the house, either of which could have reached the roof. Cut to 10-foot lengths, left with the homeowner, brush separated out. - **Part 2.** A large tree leaning at the near corner of the house. Taken out on the lift, cut to 10-foot lengths, brush separated. - **Part 3.** A large dead oak beside the woodshop, midway up the drive. The building on one side and the power lines on the other left nowhere to fell it, so it came apart on the lift. - **Part 4.** A large ash alongside the neighboring driveway, plus three smaller trees in front of it. Lift again, cut to 10-foot lengths. The driveway was the real constraint. Steep, gravel, and more than the truck could reliably tow in one pass, so the estimate went out with a condition written into it: if the trailers and the gear could not be got where they needed to be, the job did not happen. Retaining walls closed the working room down further. Lift, chip truck, chipper, saws, climbing and rigging gear, ground protection mats. Wood cut to length and left on site. ### Five Douglas firs, and the work we turned down Andersonville · June 2026 Part of the far property-line trim on this job never got priced. It ran into extensive landscaping work, which is a different trade from tree work, and taking it on would have meant charging a homeowner for something better done by somebody else. We said so and left those portions out. The rest of the property line got trimmed back. What was priced was five parts and eight trees across two full days, most of it off the lift. The cedar was the awkward one. Moderate size, pinched between the power lines on one side and the main road on the other, with no drop zone worth the name. Nothing about that tree could be felled whole, so it came down in sections off the lift. The hardwood next to it leaned out over the road and over a neighboring electric line. That one did not get started until the neighbor arranged a service drop for the duration of the work. Trimming live limbs over somebody else's service is a job to do with the line dead, not a job to do carefully. Five large Douglas firs made up the longest stretch of the two days. All the wood off them was moved by tractor into a designated area back in the woods, along with a cedar that had already come down on its own in the corner of the property. The last item was a Bradford pear at the head of the driveway, trimmed. That one had been discussed on an earlier visit, this being a repeat customer, and it was the small thing that finally got done while the lift was already on site. ### Eleven cedars trimmed back to the property line Clinton · June 2026 Eleven cedars run along the driveway on this property, following the line between it and the place next door. Only the branches on the owner's side came off. Nothing past the boundary was touched. That restraint is the whole job. A cedar row on a shared line is where boundary arguments start, and a crew that trims through the line because the reach is easier from that side leaves the homeowner holding a problem long after the truck has gone. The work went off the lift. Eleven trees in a row is reach work rather than rigging work, and a lift holds a straight line down a boundary more reliably than a climber moving from one stem to the next. Every bit of debris left with the crew. Nothing stacked, nothing chipped into a pile at the back, nothing for the homeowner to move afterward. ### A maple off the house, a mimosa off the fence Oak Ridge · July 2026 Two trees, two different jobs, and they were priced separately so the homeowner could take one and leave the other. The maple in the front yard had grown into two things at once. The house on one side, the power lines on the other, and a crown wide enough to be touching both. The scope on that tree was a trim, not a removal. Clearance was the problem, so clearance is what got fixed, and the maple is still standing in that front yard. The trimming went off the lift, cutting back from the roof line and back from the conductors. Every bit of brush was chipped and hauled off the property. The mimosa in the back yard was the removal. It had grown out over the backyard fence, which is where a mimosa usually ends up, and it came out completely — felled and cleared off the lift the same as the maple. Both in one day, one lift, one setup. ### A fence taken apart to reach a backyard hardwood Norris · July 2026 The homeowner took part of their own fence down before the crew arrived. That was agreed in advance, and it was the condition the whole job ran on: there was no getting the lift into the back yard otherwise, and there was no taking this tree down without the lift. It was a large hardwood in the back yard, grown in close enough that the roof sat inside its reach. Felling it whole was never on the table. It came apart in sections off the lift, with what was left of the fenceline tight on one side and the roof tight on the other. Ground protection mats went down before the lift moved onto the grass. All the brush and all the hardwood were carried behind the fenceline and left there. The homeowner kept the wood, so none of it went into a truck. One day on site. Norris has held Tree City USA standing for decades and manages its trees under a written plan, which tends to mean the people living there already know what they are looking at. This one came out because it had grown into the house, not because it was in the way of anything. ## What we do in Anderson County - [Tree Removal](https://leos-treeservice.com/tree-removal/): Full removal of hazardous, dead or unwanted trees, including tight-access work near structures, septic fields and power lines. - [Tree Pruning & Trimming](https://leos-treeservice.com/tree-pruning/): Structural pruning and canopy work that leaves the tree better able to hold itself up, not a chainsaw and a guess. - [Emergency Storm Response](https://leos-treeservice.com/emergency-storm-response/): Priority response when a tree comes down on a house, a drive or a line. We clear it and we clean up after ourselves. - [Wood Chipping](https://leos-treeservice.com/wood-chipping/): On-site chipping so the brush pile leaves with us instead of sitting in your yard until spring. ## Other areas we serve - [Union County](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/union-county/) - [North Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/north-knoxville/) - [West Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/west-knoxville/) - [East Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/east-knoxville/) - [Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/knoxville/) - [South Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/south-knoxville/) ## Get a free estimate - Get my free estimate: https://leos-treeservice.com/quote/ - Call [865-360-6685](tel:+18653606685) (Mon–Sat 7:00a–6:00p) - Leo's Tree Service, LLC — Maynardville, TN 37807