September 2024, Alpharetta: a mature oak flat across a roofline and a homeowner in the driveway with a phone. That call went to (770) 272-6747, and what happened next fills every photo on this page — climbers walking the trunk, our grapple-saw crane lifting the oak off section by section, the chipper running at the street until the last branch was gone. That’s tree service in Alpharetta, GA as 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service does it. We’ve worked Atlanta-area trees since 1997, and this is home turf: 4 documented Alpharetta jobs since early 2024, with 7 more next door in Roswell.
If that’s your roof today, here’s how it works. Dial the number and a live human picks up — 2 AM counts. Treat us like the emergency room for your house: no appointment, no paperwork queue, and our rates come pre-printed on the work authorization, so every number is in front of you before you sign. Text us pictures of the tree; the pictures tell us which crane and which crew the job needs, and we roll. We’ve beaten pizza deliveries to the driveway before. Priority one never changes — tree off, family safe — and the camera logs everything while we work.
Nothing on the roof? Then it’s the easy version. For scheduled tree work in Alpharetta, an I.S.A. Certified Arborist walks the property with you and hands you a free written estimate — the real number, on paper, before anything gets cut.
The Job Log Does the Talking
Dated photos, machine hours, insurance paperwork — every emergency removal we handle goes into the job log, and as of that log holds 240 documented emergency tree removals reaching back to January 2023 and spanning five states, with Georgia claiming 214 of them and the storm deployments covering South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Alpharetta sits in the thick of it: 91 of those Georgia jobs landed inside a 20-mile radius of this city.
- 1 hour 38 minutes — the median gap between clock-start and our crew standing on site, across 57 storm calls from 2024–2026 (Hurricane Helene deployment excluded). The proof is the first job photo taken on scene, and the clock plays fair: it begins at signing, or at 7 AM the following morning on authorizations signed after 5 PM.
- 65 of 141 — completed jobs since January 2023 (Helene aside) that flew on the Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane we own outright, meaning no waiting on rental iron. Helene itself was the outlier: a multi-day backlog of 73 jobs across Georgia and South Carolina, worked down with a partner operator’s crane running beside ours.
- Of the 240, 9 out of 10 billed to the homeowner’s insurance (straight from our books; no carrier endorsement implied). Carrier count: 29, topped by State Farm at 84 jobs, USAA at 37, and Allstate at 30.
One Alpharetta Roof, Frame by Frame
One storm, one oak, one afternoon in September 2024. The sequence below is a single Alpharetta storm call from first look to final cleanup — our own crew, our own crane, every frame:
Tree Services We Provide in Alpharetta, GA
Tree Removal
From Windward to downtown, Alpharetta grows hundred-foot hardwoods within falling distance of very nice rooflines — so our removals run on control, not hustle. A climber plans each cut from the roof where the crane can’t see, the grapple saw grips the wood before the blade ever touches it, and every section flies out over the house instead of across it. The photo series above is that method at a real local address.
Tree Trimming & Pruning
Plenty of “come remove this tree” calls end as pruning jobs, and we like it that way. Our I.S.A. Certified Arborists thin heavy crowns, take out deadwood before it takes itself out, and lift limbs clear of the shingles — the maintenance that carries a healthy Alpharetta oak through storm season. When pruning is the honest answer, that’s the written estimate you’ll get.
Stump Grinding
After the tree comes down, we grind the stump below grade — lay sod over the spot and the yard keeps no memory of it. Bundle the grinding with the removal visit and the price gets friendlier.
24/7 Emergency & Storm Response
Storms don’t book appointments, so neither does our 24/7 emergency tree service crew: phone answered at whatever hour the weather picks, structure cleared, damage protected, every step photographed as it happens. The September 2024 job pictured above ran that exact protocol on an Alpharetta roof.
Emergency Crane Tree Removal in Alpharetta
When a tree comes down on an Alpharetta roof, our grapple-saw crane lifts it off section by section — the September 2024 oak on this page shows exactly how that goes. Text us pictures of the tree; the pictures tell us which crane and which crew the job needs, and we roll. Since January 2023, 65 of our 141 completed jobs have flown on the Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane we own outright, so there’s no waiting on rental iron.
Insurance Paperwork You Never Have to Touch
Here’s a stack of paperwork you will never carry: ours. The emergency-room thinking follows the job past the last cut, because we don’t collect at time of service — once the site is clean, the invoice we assemble travels straight to your insurance company, and the copy that reaches you is yours to read, not to process. Behind that invoice sit multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff*, so when your carrier’s adjuster picks up the phone with questions, they hear their own language coming back — photos, crew hours, and the equipment log already lined up on our side of the desk.
None of that file-building started with your storm, either. In a tree career that opened in 1997, our documentation has ridden along on roughly a thousand homeowner insurance claims — and it worked the same way on the September 2024 Alpharetta roof above: damage on camera before the first cut, the removal and temporary protection recorded as they happened.
Where We Work in Alpharetta
Downtown Alpharetta, Windward, the Avalon side, and every cul-de-sac in between — plus the borders: tree service in Roswell to the southwest, tree service in Milton to the north, with Johns Creek and Cumming closing the loop. All of it answers to one number: (770) 272-6747.
Alpharetta’s Tree Questions, Answered Straight
What sets the price of tree removal in Alpharetta — and does the season change it?
Four variables write the number: the tree’s size, its condition, what it’s standing over, and how much room our equipment gets. None of that reads accurately over a phone line, so we won’t quote you that way. On scheduled work, an I.S.A. Certified Arborist studies the actual tree, free, and leaves the figure with you in a written estimate; in an emergency, your photos handle that walkthrough instead — we match crane and crew to what the pictures show, and every rate is pre-printed on the work authorization before your signature goes on it. As for the calendar: winter usually leans cheaper, with dormant trees and a slower schedule, but a tree that’s already dead or aimed at the house isn’t shopping for a season. That one costs least the day before it comes down on its own, whatever month that is — and the removal you plan beats the removal the weather schedules for you.
Will my homeowners insurance handle the tree — and what actually decides that?
The truthful opening is “it depends,” and we say it with some authority: our staff includes multiple licensed insurance adjusters*, and more than a thousand insurance claims sit behind this career. What all that experience teaches is that no two situations — and no two policies — read alike. The specifics decide everything. Down, or still upright? What absorbed the impact? Rooted on whose side of the line? Flagged in writing as a hazard before it failed? No single paragraph settles those for your address, and we won’t pretend this one does. When it’s your tree, call (770) 272-6747 — talking through the real answer is a conversation we’d love to have.
Can seniors get tree cutting done for free in Alpharetta?
We haven’t found a North Fulton program that removes trees for free, so give any “free removal” pitch a hard second look. What genuinely is free with us: the written estimate on scheduled work, and a straight answer about whether the tree needs to come down at all — sometimes a modest pruning settles the whole worry.
Is Alpharetta actually in your service area, or just on your website?
The photos settle that one. The September 2024 roof job on this page is our crew and our crane at a real Alpharetta address — one of 4 documented Alpharetta jobs since early 2024, alongside 7 more in Roswell next door. This end of North Fulton is a standing route for our trucks, not a stretch.
One Call Covers All of Alpharetta
Crane, crew, paperwork — this page has shown you all three working a single Alpharetta roof. Call 770 Arborist at (770) 272-6747: scheduled tree work anywhere in the city gets a free written estimate, and a tree already on the house gets the photo-first fast lane — same number, every hour on the clock.
*Please note: while we do have multiple adjusters on staff, Georgia law prevents an adjuster from also working as a contractor, and 770 engages its customers in the contractor role.
