Six o’clock on a September evening in Kennesaw, and a storm has just dropped a pine across your back fence. Your phone is already in your hand — so call (770) 272-6747. A real person answers, any hour, and help starts moving. The homeowner behind these photos signed at 6:06 PM; our first on-site photo is time-stamped 7:33 PM the same evening, and the crew worked from dusk into full dark until the fence line was open again. That’s 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service — working Atlanta-area trees since 1997.
When a tree is down, think of us the way you’d think of the emergency room. No appointments, no waiting on paperwork — our rates come pre-printed on the work authorization, so every number is in front of you before you sign. Send photos of what the storm did, and we build the response straight off your pictures: the right crane, the right crew, rolling. More than once we’ve pulled into the driveway before a pizza would have. First move: get the tree off and get you safe, camera running the whole time.
Was that 87-minute signature-to-site sprint just one lucky night? The job log says otherwise. We keep dated photos, machine lists, and paperwork on every emergency call, and across 57 storm calls from 2024 through 2026 the median wait between clock-start and a crew standing on site works out to 1 hour 38 minutes. We time this honestly: the first on-site job photo stops the watch, the watch starts at signing (or at 7 AM the next morning when someone signs after 5 PM), and the Hurricane Helene deployment — 73 jobs worked through a multi-day backlog across Georgia and South Carolina — stays out of that median.
Zoom out and the same log shows 240 emergency tree removals documented since January 2023, with storm deployments reaching five states: Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. Of those, 214 happened in Georgia — and 76 landed inside a 20-mile ring around Kennesaw. Set Helene aside, and 65 of the 141 completed jobs in that span were lifted by the Tree-Mek grapple-saw crane we own outright — nothing rented, nobody’s calendar but ours. (A partner operator’s crane worked beside ours during Helene; those lifts never enter our own-crane tally.) Every figure here is current as of .
No emergency? Even easier. For standard tree work in Kennesaw — scheduled removals, pruning, stumps — an I.S.A. Certified Arborist walks the property with you and hands you a free written estimate.
One Kennesaw Evening, Start to Finish
September 2024: one call, one crew, one night. Pine down across the back fence at dusk; trunk sectioned, staged for the log truck, fence line clear before the trucks left. The frames below are that job, in order.
Storm Damage & Insurance Claims, Worked the Night-Shift Way
Replay the September job, watching the paperwork instead of the crane. Before the first cut, the pine and the fence got photographed exactly where they lay. Through the dark hours, every pick, every machine, every man-hour went into the file right alongside the work. And when the trucks finally pulled out, nobody handed the homeowner a bill: collecting at time of service isn’t how our storm work runs. The finished invoice traveled to the insurance company instead, a copy to the homeowner, put together under the eyes of the multiple licensed insurance adjusters we keep on staff* — so the file a carrier opens reads like something written in its own language. The longer version lives on our tree removal insurance claims page.
That night was no outlier: of the 240 logged jobs, 9 out of 10 ended with an invoice to the homeowner’s insurance company — straight from our books; no carrier endorsement implied. Across those files, 29 different carriers appear; State Farm shows up most often (84 jobs), USAA next (37), Allstate after that (30).
What Kennesaw Callers Ask Us First
How much does it cost to cut down a tree in Kennesaw, GA?
No two removals price alike, because four things move the number: how much wood is up in the air, whether the tree is sound or failing, what sits underneath it, and where a crane can set up. You can’t read any of that over a phone line, so scheduled work in Kennesaw begins with an I.S.A. Certified Arborist standing under the tree itself, and it wraps with a free written estimate you can hold. Storm emergencies run on a different track: the photos you send do the assessing, and every hourly rate sits pre-printed on the work authorization before your pen touches it.
What is the cheapest time of year for tree removal?
Shopping the calendar? Winter is your friend — schedules run lighter and dormant crowns come apart cleaner. The caveat hangs in our gallery above, though: storms never check the calendar, and that pine chose a September evening. So for a tree that already leans or is already dying, “now” beats any season — taking it down on your terms is a smaller, simpler bill than pulling it off your fence after the next front finishes the argument.
Will homeowners insurance pay for tree removal?
With multiple licensed insurance adjusters on staff* and a career spanning more than a thousand insurance claims, here’s the one always-true answer: no claim copies another, and no policy reads quite like the next. What actually tips yours? Whether anyone had the tree on record as a hazard before it failed. Whose side of the property line it grew on. What it came down on when it fell. And whether it fell at all, or is still standing. No website paragraph can settle all that honestly, so we won’t pretend — pick up the phone instead. (770) 272-6747 reaches a real person any hour, and we’d genuinely like to hear how yours happened.
Can seniors get free tree cutting service?
We haven’t found any Cobb County program that pays to take a senior’s tree down — so look twice at anyone knocking on doors promising one. What softens the bill: on scheduled work the written estimate is still free, and the arborist’s recommendation is straight — plenty of “removals” shrink into pruning jobs once a certified eye actually looks up. And when a storm forces the issue, payment doesn’t happen on the spot; the invoice we build travels to your insurance company while your copy lands in your mailbox.
Do you actually have crews working in Kennesaw?
The night gallery on this page is the answer: our people, our crane, our skid steer, on a real Kennesaw fence line after a September storm. Behind those frames, the log shows more than 20 documented Cobb County jobs since early 2024. When home base sits this close, nobody is driving in from two counties away.
Tree Services We Provide in Kennesaw, GA
24/7 Emergency & Storm Response
The gallery above is the product demo: pine snapped in an evening storm, grapple-saw crane on it in the dark, fence line clear before bedtime. Our 24/7 emergency tree service runs that play all over Kennesaw — answer, read your photos, roll, clear, document.
Tree Removal
Kennesaw grows hundred-foot pines and mature hardwoods tight against houses and fence lines, so we build every removal around reach: the crane works over the structure from the driveway, and the skid steer’s log grapple walks sections out instead of dragging them across the lawn. Big tree, tight access — that combination is the local specialty.
Tree Trimming & Pruning
Our I.S.A. Certified Arborists reach for the pruning saw before the felling saw: crown thinning so wind moves through instead of pushing, deadwood out before gravity claims it, limbs lifted clear of the roofline. When pruning is the fix, that’s what goes in the written estimate — the tree keeps shading your yard, and you keep the difference.
Stump Grinding
We grind below grade so the spot goes back to being lawn instead of a mower obstacle. Book it with the removal and one trip covers both — the cheapest way to get it done.
Where We Work in Kennesaw
From the neighborhoods under Kennesaw Mountain to the Kennesaw State University side of town, downtown, and everything between. The same crews cover tree service in Marietta, tree service in Smyrna, and tree service in Acworth, with Powder Springs right next door. All of Cobb County, one number: (770) 272-6747.
Get a Free Estimate in Kennesaw
The voice that picks up belongs to the outfit in these photos — same crew, same machines. Call 770 Arborist at (770) 272-6747: scheduled tree work in Kennesaw gets a free written estimate, and a tree that just came down gets a response built off your pictures — any hour, live answer, wheels turning.
*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.
