Some trees are too big, too dead, or too dangerously placed to take down limb by limb over your house — and that's when a crane earns its keep. Instead of a climber working inside a compromised tree and lowering pieces past your roof, the crane holds each section as it's cut and lifts it straight up and away to a drop zone. For a massive live oak over the living room or a hurricane-cracked pine leaning on the house, it's the safest and often the fastest way to get it out.
Crane removals take experience and coordination — a certified operator, a climber or bucket rigger setting the picks, and a ground crew managing the loads and cutting them up. Our team runs these jobs the way they have to be run, with the tree's failure points, the pick weights, and the structures below all accounted for. When the tree is dangerous or the drop zone is tight, the crane keeps the weight off your roof and the risk off your property.
What's included
- Cranes for oversized pines and heavy oaks
- Trees lifted off homes, pools & tight lots
- Removal of decayed, unsafe-to-climb trees
- Certified operator, rigger & ground crew
- Calculated pick weights on every lift
- Storm-downed and uprooted-tree removal
- Debris cut up and hauled from the drop zone
- Full insurance documentation on storm claims
When a crane is the right call
A crane makes sense when a tree is too large, too hazardous, or too tightly surrounded by structures to remove conventionally. That includes towering pines and heavy oaks directly over a house, trees so decayed or storm-damaged that a climber shouldn't be up in them, and removals hemmed in by the home, the neighbor's property, a pool, or power lines with no room to drop sections the normal way.
By picking each cut off the tree and swinging it clear, the crane eliminates the risk of a heavy piece dropping onto the roof and shortens the time our crew spends working over your house. For the right tree, it turns a nerve-wracking removal into a controlled, efficient lift.
How a crane removal works
We start by studying the tree and setting up the crane where it can safely reach every pick and swing the loads to a clear drop zone. A rigger — climbing or in a bucket — attaches each section, the operator takes up the tension, and only then is the piece cut so the crane immediately carries its full weight. Section by section, from the top down, the tree comes off in controlled lifts to the ground crew, who cut it up and clear it.
Everything hinges on calculating pick weights and staying inside the crane's limits, which is exactly why this isn't a job for improvisation. Our operators and riggers coordinate every lift so nothing is overloaded and nothing swings where it shouldn't.
Crane work after Golden Triangle storms
After a hurricane, the worst cases are the ones a crane is built for: a huge tree already down on the house, or one uprooted and leaning its full weight against the structure, holding the roof up as much as crushing it. Taking weight off those safely usually means a crane lifting sections away rather than a saw cutting a tree that's under tension and could shift.
We stage for the storms that hit Southeast Texas and bring crane capacity to the removals that need it most. And because these are almost always insurance claims, we document the tree on the structure, the pick plan, and the removal thoroughly so your adjuster has a complete, itemized file.