Down in the county's timber corner, the pines are the landscape. When one of them picks your roofline to lean toward, that's a today problem.
Troy sits in Greenwood County's quiet southwest, where house lots back up to working timberland and the Sumter National Forest country beyond. Living against that much pine has one recurring cost: edge trees. Pines that grew inside a stand grow tall and thin, braced by their neighbors — and when a cut, a road, or your yard opens one side, the exposed row meets wind it never trained for. Add a wet-clay winter and the bark beetles that patrol every Piedmont pine stand, and the tall one by the propane tank earns its watching.
Long gravel drives and open ground make access easy out here — the hard part is choosing to act while the choice is still yours instead of the wind's. The quote is free, and so is the second opinion on whether that lean is new or you're just noticing it more.
Start with documentation — photos, dates — and a call to the landowner or their forestry manager; boundary-tree responsibility isn't something a tree site should lawyer for you. What a local pro can do immediately is assess and handle anything on your side of the line that those neighbors are threatening.
| Work | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Small tree (under about 30 ft) | $250 – $650 |
| Medium tree (about 30–60 ft) | $650 – $1,300 |
| Tall tree (about 60–80 ft) | $1,300 – $2,500 |
| Hazard tree, or anything over a structure | Quoted — commonly $2,400 and up |
| Stump ground out (each) | $90 – $325 |
| Storm / emergency work | Quoted — hazards jump the line |
Read this table the way you'd read a weather forecast — useful, not binding. The same oak can be a half-day job on open ground or a two-day rigging project over a garage — condition, access, and what the wood lands on decide the number. That's why the local pro looks first and the quote costs you nothing.
Troy or the roads around it? Timber-edge work is the local specialty.
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