Tree Removal in East Cobb, GA

A red oak is through the sunroom, and East Cobb’s famous quirk stops mattering: this isn’t technically a city, your mail says Marietta, and none of that slows a crane down. We’re 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service — taking down Atlanta-area trees since 1997 — and the streets off Johnson Ferry and Sandy Plains are home turf. One number, answered by a real person at any hour: (770) 272-6747.

The Log as a Timeline

Anybody can claim speed; a dated photo argues better. Each emergency removal enters the log with timestamps, equipment records, and insurance paperwork — bookkeeping, not marketing, current through July 14, 2026.

• January 2023 — the log opens. Since that first entry: 240 documented emergency tree removal jobs, with storm deployments reaching five states — Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
• Most of the ink never leaves the state. Georgia holds 214 of them; 101 sit within 20 miles of East Cobb.
• 2024 through 2026, on the stopwatch. Over the 57 storm calls in that stretch (Hurricane Helene deployment excluded), the median wait for a crew on site came to 1 hour 38 minutes — the clock stopping only at the first job photo taken on scene.
• Hurricane Helene, by itself: more than 100 storm jobs logged across Georgia and South Carolina in that one deployment.
• Our iron, not a rental yard’s. Helene aside (partner equipment worked it alongside ours), the log shows 141 completed jobs since January 2023 — 65 of them run on the Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane we own outright.
• Then, the paperwork: 9 out of 10 of those 240 jobs billed through the homeowner’s insurance — a figure straight from our books; no carrier endorsement implied. Across the log, 29 carriers show up: State Farm on top (84 jobs), then USAA (37) and Allstate (30).

A Tree Is on the House — Here’s How the Clock Runs

When it can’t wait, think of us like the emergency room: no appointments, no waiting on paperwork. Step by step:

1. You call (770) 272-6747. A real person answers — midnight, Sunday, mid-storm.
2. You send photos. We read the job straight off your pictures — which crane, which crew, what rigging.
3. The rates reach you before your signature does — already in print on the work authorization.
4. We roll. We’ve beaten the pizza guy to a driveway more than once.
5. Tree off, family safe. The first move, every time: load off the structure, tarp over the opening, camera documenting it all.
6. The invoice skips your doorstep. Payment isn’t collected while the crew is standing there — the finished job becomes a bill addressed to your insurance company, and your inbox receives the identical document.

No emergency? Even easier: for standard tree work in East Cobb, an I.S.A. Certified Arborist puts a free written estimate in your hand.

From Our Job Log

Steps four and five, as the crew cameras caught them — each frame here is our own logged work, never stock:

Tree Services We Provide in East Cobb, GA

24/7 Emergency & Storm Response

Wind funneling down the Sope Creek and Chattahoochee corridors is how trees find rooflines; our 24/7 emergency tree service answers at any hour — tree off, tarp on, photos throughout.

Tree Removal

East Cobb’s swim-tennis neighborhoods were laid out under mature hardwoods, and forty years on those oaks and poplars tower over the two-story rooflines beneath them. Our removals are built for exactly that: crane picks from the driveway, climbers where canopies tangle, wood carried out on a grapple instead of dragged across the lawn.

Tree Trimming & Pruning

Plenty of East Cobb trees don’t need to come down — they need an I.S.A. Certified Arborist and a careful afternoon: crown thinning, deadwood out, roofline clearance. When pruning is the right call, we’ll say so.

Stump Grinding

We grind below grade so the lawn closes back over the spot. Cheapest bundled with the removal — ask when we put your estimate together.

The Equipment We Bring to East Cobb

Our Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane is the machine these lots call for: a knuckleboom with a grapple and hydraulic saw that reaches over the ridgeline from the street, cuts, and swings each section away — no one under the load, nothing scraping the shingles. We own it outright — no rental scheduling. Behind it: skid steers, chipper and chip truck, a log truck that hauls the wood the same day, and climbers for the picks that want hands on a rope. Most removals — one crew, one day.

Documented Work on East Cobb’s Borders

East Cobb photos file under Marietta addresses in our records — the closest published photo sets live on the pages ringing this corner of the map:

• July 2025 — tree service in Marietta, the mailing address most of East Cobb shares: a storm-dropped tree lifted off the roofline, roof tarped the same day.
• January 2026 — tree service in Roswell, across the river on Highway 120: a winter-storm pine craned off a house, roof tarped that night.
• May 2026 — tree service in Woodstock, up Sandy Plains: a mature oak across the back of a house, off by dark with roof and wall tarped tight.

Marietta, Roswell, Woodstock — East Cobb’s three borders, each with photographed 770 Arborist jobs.

The Claim File — and the Copy That Lands in Your Inbox

One email explains our storm billing: when the job wraps, the invoice we build is addressed to your insurance carrier, and the copy hitting your inbox is that same document, sent the same moment. Nobody knocks to settle up while the tarp is still settling — the emergency-room approach runs clear through the billing. And because multiple licensed insurance adjusters work on our staff*, whoever your carrier assigns ends up talking with people fluent in claim files.

Behind that email sits a documentation habit dating to 1997, when the owner started in the tree business: damage captured before the first cut, removal and temporary protection recorded as they happen, every hour and machine entered in the log. The whole file rides along with your homeowner insurance claim.

Where We Work in East Cobb

Johnson Ferry and Lower Roswell, Sandy Plains and Shallowford Road, the school-zone streets around Pope, Lassiter, and Walton, everything along Sope Creek down to the Chattahoochee — plus Sandy Springs across the river and Smyrna across the county. East side of Cobb, one number: (770) 272-6747.

East Cobb’s Tree Questions, Answered Straight

How much does tree removal cost in East Cobb, GA?

Three things write the number: the tree’s size, what’s sitting beneath it, and how close equipment can park. Price one eighty-foot oak twice — threaded between two houses, then standing in open lawn — and you’ll get two different figures. On scheduled work, an I.S.A. Certified Arborist hands you a free written estimate. On emergencies, your pictures do the sizing, with rates in print on the work authorization.

East Cobb isn’t its own city — my address says Marietta. Do you still serve it?

Yes — this page exists for you. East Cobb is unincorporated Cobb County: no city hall, Marietta mailing addresses nearly everywhere. Our log carries 12 documented jobs under Marietta addresses since early 2024, and the same crane covers the whole east side of the county.

Will homeowners insurance pay for tree removal?

Four details do most of the deciding, and the first is what the tree landed on — roofline, fence, driveway, or nothing at all. After that: is it on the ground or still upright? Whose property did it grow from? And had anyone documented it as a hazard before it failed? Those variables stack differently at every address, and no two policies read them alike — so even with multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff* and a career’s worth of insurance claims behind us (more than a thousand of them), we won’t pretend a one-line answer exists. What does exist is the phone: (770) 272-6747, any hour — talking through exactly this is work we enjoy.

What is the cheapest time of year for tree removal?

Ask the calendar and it points at winter — canopies bare, sections lighter, more room on the schedule. The bigger lever isn’t the season, though; it’s whether the removal happens on your timetable. A dead or leaning tree taken down while the choice is yours prices as a planned job — not so once a storm moves it onto the house. The free written estimate is how you find out.

Do you actually have crews working in East Cobb?

Regular dispatch — 101 documented jobs within 20 miles. The 12 Marietta-address jobs since early 2024 are East Cobb work wearing East Cobb’s mailing address, plus 7 documented jobs in Roswell and 5 in Smyrna — photos on those pages. If a crane is rolling down Johnson Ferry, there’s a fair chance it’s ours.

Free Estimates on the East Side of Cobb

The crane your oak calls for, run by the crew Marietta mailboxes already know. Scheduled work opens with a free written estimate; a tree that’s already down opens with photos texted in and rates you read before signing anything. Either way it’s one number — Call 770 Arborist at (770) 272-6747.

*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.