Tree Service in Kennesaw, GA

Most calls about Tree Service in Kennesaw start with a short question: "Will you take everything with you?" In Kennesaw the answer has to be yes. The city's sanitation rules say that when a tree company does the work, the company is required to remove the debris from the property. Elite Tree Service Marietta builds hauling into every Kennesaw estimate, so the logs, brush and chips leave on our trucks and none of it ends up waiting at your curb.

Why the curb won't take a tree

Kennesaw Public Works does collect yard trimmings on regular trash days, but the limits are built for a weekend of yard work, not a removal. Branches must be cut to 4 feet or less and no more than 2 inches thick, and a pile can't be larger than 10 feet long, 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall. Bags top out at 30 gallons, with a limit of 15 bags per pickup. One mature water oak would fill that allowance many times over, and most of its wood is far thicker than 2 inches. Plan on the tree company taking it.

Built fast, planted young

The city grew from 33,036 people at the 2020 census to an estimated 37,970 in 2025. Census QuickFacts shows 64.6% of homes are owner-occupied, at about 3,400 people per square mile. In practice that means a lot of subdivision lots with the same pattern: a few pines or oaks the builder left at the back of the lot, ornamental trees out front, and yards that back onto a neighbor's. Those leftover pines are now tall and often lean toward the open lawn and the house. They are the trees we are asked about most.

Life next to the battlefield

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park covers about 2,923 acres southeast of the city, and part of it is recognized as old-growth forest. Homes that border the park or the wooded creek corridors near it see more storm debris, more falling limbs and more wildlife around their trees. If a tree is on park land, it isn't yours to cut, even if its limbs reach over your yard. You can usually have overhanging limbs pruned back to the property line, but not in a way that kills the tree. We will tell you where we think that line is before we cut.

Rain and campus flooding in 2009

During the September 2009 floods, Kennesaw State University reported serious flooding on several parts of its campus and canceled classes for three days. Rain that hard soaks clay soil all the way down. If you lost trees that year, or saw the ground heave around a trunk, you know how wet soil weakens a tree's anchor. A tree that tipped slightly then and stood back up is worth a look now.

How a Kennesaw job usually goes

1. We look at the tree, the fall zone and the route a truck or chipper would take, often from the street to the backyard between two houses. 2. You get a written estimate that lists each tree, what will be done and how the wood leaves the property. 3. On the day of the job, brush is chipped on site and logs are loaded out. Stumps are ground if you included them in the quote.

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