Check the time stamps on this job. Work authorization: signed 11:06 PM as Hurricane Helene closed in on Atlanta. First on-site photo: camera-stamped 10:26 the next morning — mid-storm, crane in a North Buckhead street, grapple saw over the fence line at the oak across the backyard and pool. By afternoon, the tree was out in sections. That’s the proof this page is built on.
We’re 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service. Atlanta grew up inside a forest and our job log shows it: 15 documented jobs inside the city since early 2024, more than any other metro city we serve. Our owner, Mark Russell, has worked Atlanta’s trees since 1997. A live person answers (770) 758-8590 at any hour.
When a tree hits your home, we run the way an emergency room runs: you get treated now, not when the calendar opens. The rates come pre-printed on the work authorization — every number in front of you before you sign. Send photos of what happened; we read the job right off your pictures — which crane, which crew, which way in — and deploy. In some cases, help has arrived faster than a pizza delivery. The first move never changes: get the tree off and get you safe. From first cut to last log, everything is documented.
Nothing on your roof? Then take the calm lane: scheduled tree work in Atlanta starts with an I.S.A. Certified Arborist walking the property with you and a free written estimate in your hand.
Emergency Tree Removal by the Numbers
Anybody can say “fast.” We’d rather show you the job log — dated photos, equipment hours, insurance paperwork — updated as of :
- 240 documented emergency tree removal jobs since January 2023, including storm deployments in five states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Oklahoma.
- The Atlanta job pictured on this page: signed 11:06 PM as Hurricane Helene closed in; first on-site photo time-stamped 10:26 the next morning, mid-storm.
- 214 of those jobs were Georgia jobs — 83 of them within 20 miles of Atlanta.
- Median time to crew on site: 1 hour 38 minutes across 57 storm calls, 2024–2026, outside the Hurricane Helene deployment — timed by our first on-site job photo.
- During Hurricane Helene itself we handled more than 100 storm jobs across Georgia and South Carolina.
- Outside the Hurricane Helene deployment, 65 of our 141 completed jobs since January 2023 ran on our own Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane — no rental cranes, no waiting (Helene ran with partner equipment alongside ours).
- Of those 240 jobs, 9 out of 10 went through the homeowner’s insurance — a figure straight from our books; no carrier endorsement implied. The log lists 29 carriers, led by State Farm (84 jobs), USAA (37), and Allstate (30).
Tree Services We Provide in Atlanta, GA
Tree Removal
An intown removal is a chess problem: mature oaks and poplars over pools, garden walls, shared driveways, streets that need cones before a crane can set up. The gallery below is our solution — grapple saw lifting the trunk off the pool deck in sections, Bobcat T770 walking the logs out through the drive. Nothing dragged across the lawn, nothing dropped on what the tree missed.
Tree Trimming & Pruning
Atlanta protects its canopy by ordinance, which makes smart pruning the best move for many intown trees: crown thinning so wind passes through, deadwood out before gravity takes it, limbs lifted off the roofline. It’s I.S.A. Certified Arborist work here — and when pruning is all your tree needs, the written estimate will say so.
Stump Grinding
We grind the stump below grade and the lawn takes the spot back. It costs least on the same visit as the removal — mention it when you book.
24/7 Emergency & Storm Response
The homeowner in the gallery signed at 11:06 PM; our crane was working the backyard by mid-morning, in the storm. That’s the tempo our 24/7 emergency tree service runs citywide — tree off the structure first, damage protected, and time-stamped photos of all of it.
Recent 770 Arborist Jobs in Atlanta
September 2024, North Buckhead, Hurricane Helene: an oak across the backyard fence and pool, signed the night before, crane in the street by morning, gone in sections by afternoon. The whole sequence:
Storm Damage & Insurance Claims — We Document Everything
Now the part that makes homeowners exhale. An emergency room treats you first and sorts billing after — same here: we don’t collect at time of service. When the work is complete, we assemble the invoice and send it to your insurance company, with a copy to you. And because we keep multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff*, we speak the carrier’s language — when your adjuster calls, the answers, photos, and paperwork are already in the file.
On the North Buckhead job above, the camera never stopped: the oak on the fence before the first cut, every pick off the pool deck, the logs down the drive, the cleared deck — time stamps an adjuster could check against the storm itself. Roughly a thousand homeowner insurance claims have traveled with files like that one. Mark’s been in the tree business since 1997; the documentation habit is that old too.
Where We Work in Atlanta
Buckhead and North Buckhead, Midtown, Morningside, Virginia-Highland, Druid Hills, the neighborhoods off Peachtree and Roswell Road — the whole city. The same crews run north for tree service in Roswell and cover Sandy Springs and Brookhaven just outside the city line. Inside or around the Perimeter: (770) 758-8590.
Atlanta Tree Service Questions We Actually Get
How much does it cost to cut down a tree in Atlanta, GA?
Intown, the honest answer starts with access: the same oak prices differently over a pool, a garage, or open lawn. So for scheduled work we look before we talk — a free written estimate from an I.S.A. Certified Arborist who has stood in your yard. In an emergency, your photos do the walkthrough: we read the job off your pictures, and the rates come pre-printed on the work authorization.
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Atlanta?
For a healthy tree, usually yes — Atlanta’s tree protection ordinance is among the strictest in the region, and removals go through the city’s Arborist Division. Dead, dying, and hazardous trees follow a separate application with a field inspection, where certified-arborist documentation helps your case move. We work under this ordinance constantly; tell us your situation and we’ll map the path before anything gets cut.
Will homeowners insurance pay for tree removal?
With multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff* and over a thousand insurance claims navigated in our career, here’s the most truthful thing we can tell you: every situation is its own situation, and every policy reads its own way. It hangs on the details — did the tree come down, or is it still standing? What did it land on? Whose tree was it? Had it been documented as a hazard before it failed? No single answer stretches across all that, so we won’t pretend one does. Call (770) 758-8590 — any hour — and we’d love to talk through yours.
What good is signing at 11 PM if the crew comes in the morning?
Ask the homeowner in the gallery. His 11:06 PM signature locked in the pre-printed rates, queued the job, and let dispatch build the morning around it — first on-site photo, 10:26 AM, with Helene still crossing the city. Another Atlanta log entry: signed 6:58 PM on a Sunday, first photo 7:08 Monday morning. Your wait ends the moment you sign.
City Trees, One Call
City trees, city access, city paperwork — Mark’s been working all three since 1997. Scheduled work gets a free written estimate from an I.S.A. Certified Arborist; emergencies deploy from your photos. Call 770 Arborist at (770) 758-8590 — a live person answers, midnight included. We’re here for you, Atlanta.
*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.
