Put a clock on this one. 5:18 PM, a June evening in Cumming: the homeowners sign our work authorization with several mature oaks down and the fence pinned under two of them. A signature after five o’clock means the response clock starts at 7:00 the next morning — and our first on-site job photo is time-stamped 7:37. Thirty-seven minutes on the clock, crew on the property, cleanup underway. That’s 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service, working Atlanta-area trees since 1997, and every photo on this page comes from that documented Cumming job.
If a storm just did that to your yard, start here: call (770) 272-6747. A live human answers around the clock and gets help moving. Urgent jobs run the way an ER runs — you’re seen now, and the paperwork keeps pace with the crew. Every rate is already printed on the work authorization, in front of you before you sign. Text over pictures of the damage and we build the response from them — which crane, which machines, how many hands — then we roll. We’ve pulled up ahead of the dinner some homeowners ordered while waiting. Job one: lift the tree off and make you safe.
Nothing urgent? Even easier: for scheduled tree work anywhere in Forsyth County, an I.S.A. Certified Arborist walks the property with you and hands you a free written estimate.
Emergency Tree Removal by the Numbers
Anyone can talk fast on the phone; the job log is where the truth lives — dated photos, machines used, insurance paperwork, every job. Here’s what it says as of :
- 240 documented emergency tree removal jobs since January 2023, with storm deployments reaching five states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
- The Cumming job on this page ran 37 minutes on the clock — signed 5:18 PM, clock start 7:00 the next morning, first on-site photo time-stamped 7:37.
- 214 of the 240 were Georgia jobs, and 40 of those sit within 20 miles of Cumming.
- Median time from clock-start to crew on site: 1 hour 38 minutes over 57 storm calls from 2024–2026 outside the Hurricane Helene deployment (timed by our first on-site job photo; the clock starts at signing, or 7 AM the next morning for after-5 PM signings).
- The Hurricane Helene deployment was its own campaign: a multi-day backlog worked down across 73 jobs in Georgia and South Carolina.
- Outside Helene, 65 of our 141 completed jobs since January 2023 ran on our own Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane — ours, so nobody waits on a rental. A partner operator’s crane worked the Helene backlog alongside ours; those lifts stay out of our own-crane count.
- 9 out of 10 of those 240 jobs went through the homeowner’s insurance — 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 Cumming, GA
Tree Removal
Cumming’s big wooded lots grow big timber — mature oaks and hundred-foot pines with a whole acre to fall across. We take them down at every scale: the crane when a tree threatens the house, skid steers with grapples for wind-throw scattered across the yard like the job below, climbers for the hung-up and half-fallen. Several trees down at once is exactly the work we build crews for.
Tree Trimming & Pruning
The trees you’re keeping get the same certified eyes as the ones coming down. Our I.S.A. Certified Arborists prune for wind-firmness — opening dense crowns so gusts pass through, taking deadwood out early, raising limbs clear of rooflines and fence lines. When pruning is all your oak needs, that’s the recommendation you’ll get, in writing.
Stump Grinding
One wind event can leave a whole row of stumps. We grind them all below grade in one visit — folding the grinding into the removal keeps your total down, and you can plant right on top afterward.
24/7 Emergency & Storm Response
Signed one evening, on site at 7:37 the next morning — that’s our 24/7 emergency tree service pattern in Forsyth County: arrive fast, clear the structure, protect what’s damaged, photograph every step for the claim file.
Recent 770 Arborist Jobs in Cumming
June 2025, one corner of a Cumming property: a storm put several mature oaks on the ground at once — root plates heaved whole out of the red clay, one stem snapped mid-trunk, the board fence flat beneath the trunks. Our crew photographed the damage at first light and had equipment rolling down the driveway within the hour. Here’s the job, frame by frame:
Storm Damage & Insurance Claims — The File Builds Itself While We Work
Here’s where the emergency-room idea pays off a second time: we don’t collect at time of service. Once the trees are off and the property is safe, we build the invoice and send it to your insurance company, with a copy to you. We have multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff*, so the carrier conversation happens in its own language — when the adjuster calls, the answers, photos, and paperwork are already in the file.
A claim with several trees and a flattened fence needs a thorough file, and ours is built on site: photos dated before the first cut, every removal, every damaged fence section, every hour and machine logged. Our documentation has accompanied roughly a thousand homeowner insurance claims — including the June 2025 Cumming job in these photos, which went through the homeowner’s insurance the same way.
Where We Work in Cumming
The Lake Lanier shoreline neighborhoods, the GA-400 corridor, the Sawnee Mountain area, downtown Cumming and the City Center — all of Forsyth County is dispatch territory, along with Suwanee and Dawsonville over the county lines. The same crews run tree service in Alpharetta, tree service in Milton, and tree service in Roswell just down GA-400. One number covers all of it: (770) 272-6747.
Cumming Tree Service Questions We Actually Get
How much does it cost to cut down a tree in Cumming, GA?
On Forsyth acreage the honest answer is a wide range: an oak in an open field is a different job from a pine over the garage, and a multi-tree storm cleanup is different from either. For scheduled work, the number worth trusting is a free written estimate from an I.S.A. Certified Arborist standing on your property. In a storm, your photos do the walkthrough, and every rate is pre-printed on the work authorization you read before signing.
What is the cheapest time of year for tree removal?
Usually winter — lighter crowns, dormant trees, more open crew calendars. But the biggest savings on a failing tree is taking it down while it’s still a scheduled job. The June 2025 cleanup pictured above began as a problem that could wait — until a storm decided it couldn’t and turned one tree’s worth of work into a whole corner of the property. The tree you book is always a smaller job than the tree that books you.
Will homeowners insurance pay for tree removal?
We keep multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff*, and across our career we’ve navigated more than a thousand insurance claims — which is exactly why we won’t hand you a one-size answer. Every situation and every policy is different, and the details drive everything: Did the tree fall or is it standing? What did it land on? Whose tree was it? Was it documented as a hazard before it failed? Each claim is its own conversation, so let’s have it — call (770) 272-6747 any hour and we’d love to talk through yours.
Can seniors get free tree cutting service?
We don’t know of a Forsyth County program that removes trees at no charge. What we can offer any homeowner, at any age: a free written estimate on scheduled work, and a straight answer on whether the tree needs to come down at all — sometimes pruning solves it for far less.
Do you actually have crews working in Cumming?
Forty documented jobs within 20 miles of Cumming in our log, including the June 2025 multi-oak cleanup pictured above — our own crew and equipment on a real Forsyth County property, one of the Cumming jobs logged since early 2024. Alpharetta next door adds 4 more, and Forsyth sits directly on our standing North Fulton route.
Get a Free Estimate in Cumming
One leaning pine or a whole wind-thrown corner of the yard — the crew, the crane, and the paperwork arrive together. Call 770 Arborist at (770) 272-6747 for a free written estimate on scheduled tree work in Cumming. Storm emergencies move on your photos — same number, real person, any hour.
*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.
