---
title: "Maple Over a Carport in Knoxville, TN — Leo's Tree Service"
canonical: "https://leos-treeservice.com/work/maple-over-carport-knoxville/"
description: "An 80-foot maple over a neighbor's carport, taken down piece by piece from a lift in Knoxville, Tennessee. Licensed and insured, family-operated. Call 865-360-6685 for a free estimate."
---

# An 80-foot maple over the neighbor's carport

Knoxville · September 2026

A big maple in the back yard, about eighty feet tall, with its canopy hanging over the neighbor's carport. Nothing about that carport could take a falling limb, so the tree could not come down in one piece until it had been taken apart in the air.

It was bigger than it looked. Vines ran up the whole trunk and hid how thick it really was, and it was not until the wood was on the ground that the diameter showed.

The first day was the lift. We worked it piece by piece, starting at the far ends of the limbs and working in toward the trunk, then starting at the top and working down, so nothing over the carport was ever heavier than what we could control. As limbs came down, the tractor's grapple picked them up and loaded them into the truck. At the very end of that day, with the canopy gone, the main stem was felled into the open yard.

The next half day was the wood. The trunk was cut into chunks, and the chunks were split. Even split, they were big pieces to load. The brush all went through the chipper, the hardwood was hauled off, and the yard was cleaned up with a leaf blower.

The stump stayed on purpose. The customer plans to use it for flower pots and garden projects, so it was left cut low rather than ground. They told us they had saved up a long time for this job and felt it was money well spent.

## Photos and clips

- Truck staged and ready for wood chipping.
- Tree filled and ready to be chunked and loaded.
- Using the lift to limb out the maple tree, as limbs fall, we use the tractor with the grapple arms to pick up the limbs and load them into the back of the truck.
- Job completed with the yard cleaned up.
- Side view of the maple tree overhanging the carport
- GoPro time-lapse of cutting the tree into chunks once it was down on the ground, loading it in the truck, and hauling it away
- GoPro time-lapse of limbing out the tree via the lift

All our work in [Knoxville](https://leos-treeservice.com/service-areas/knoxville/)

## Get a free estimate

- Get my free estimate: https://clienthub.getjobber.com/hubs/26c1e4ea-89d1-4f45-850c-eec90cc882b8/public/requests/5078409/new
- Call [865-360-6685](tel:+18653606685) (Mon–Sat 7:00a–6:00p)
- Leo's Tree Service, LLC — Maynardville, TN 37807